Perspectives of a sexual serial killer

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Title: Perspectives of a sexual serial killer: the social perceptions between power-reassurance and anger retaliatory serial killers.
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Subject: Serial murderers.
Description: A person’s perception means a great deal more than one might believe. Even for a serial killer, the way that they view their own status in society has an effect on what happens in their life and how they treat the idea of a human life. Research was conducted to look into the sociological and psychological aspects of the two disorganized, sexual serial killer typologies: the power-reassurance and anger-retaliatory serial killers. The way that they see the social ramifications that would occur due to their behavior has a tremendous influence over the way that this research profiles and categorizes them. The current profiling system lacks insight into the serial killer’s perspective. The sociological perceptions of both Jeffrey Dahmer and Ed Gein matters greatly to their criminal profiles. The positions in which these serial killers envisioned themselves holding in their society helped to give way to eventually becoming deviant criminals. The extended profiles of two famous serial killers helps to answer the questions of why serial killers do such horrific acts and give different ways that the scholarly community can further influence the profiling system in which serial killers are placed into groups. The views of Dahmer and Gein are not mutually exclusive in determining whether or not they would be future serial killers. The status of the killers’ psyche and the actual crimes committed were taken into account while making the profiles using the Social Perception and Psychological Anaylsis Profiling System., Honors Thesis Advisor : Dr. Emily Sweitzer.
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Contributor: Dunn, Taylor B. (Author), California University of Pennsylvania. Honors Program. (Author)
Date: 2018-04-11
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Identifier: cali:783
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