Understanding what causes it and why they commit these crimes sort of goes together. At work if a person is being mocked or at school with bullies; it can cause hatred to be ingrained into their minds, that they need a release. It is the way that they release their anger that differentiates a killer from any other person in society.
A killer will use their anger from society to fuel their hatred of others and sometimes kill those that remind them of their mockers or bullies. A mass murderer will not act on instinct, but instead their crimes are planned, they have a message they want known and they execute it in a calm manner.
At one point in time, everyone knew everyone in his or her little towns. As society evolved, the idea of strangers living among them started to increase. Their main victims are total strangers to them. This quote by Leyton is the sole explanation of how society is responsible for the formation of serial killers. Society keeps evolving, and norms keep changing to the point where people do not know where they belong. It is not an excuse to start killing that is for sure.
To some though, it seems as though they feel they need to get rid of those who do not seem to fit into their norms of society, or the society that they hear about around them. There is never one way of looking at how serial killers were formed, or even what caused them to start killing. Part of the reason as explained is because of society and different factors and groups within society. As proven also by psychology, there could be part of an explanation within the psyche. Individually, neither of these completely answer the question of why, but together researchers might get one-step closer to the answer.
Though once they do, the answers might change, to the point that there is never going to be a concrete answer to how or why serial killers are as they are, there is only ever going to be speculations.
Modern serial killers. Crime, Media, Culture, 5 2 , Justification of its system status is also due to the fact that it is a complex of methods or rules that govern behavior. Once society has identified a certain behavior as being undesirable, it seeks to correct it in an individual.
The court process for example, is very elaborate in nature. Starting with when an accused person is caught in an offence, to being taken to court, charged and finally sentenced. It is a very meticulous process that aims for certain set objectives. If found guilty, one can be incarcerated, fined or set free. As discussed earlier, incarceration can take several forms. Most criminal cases, however, end when charges are dismissed or the accused enters a guilty plea.
To ensure a fair trial where an accused cannot complain of otherwise, is to ensure that a case naturally goes through all the stages of the criminal justice process. This is important so as to understand how the perceptions and interactions of many decision makers determine the fates of people drawn into the system. Viable community based alternatives to prison Probation is one of the viable alternatives to prison. This is not a new concept to the criminal justice system as earlier legal systems allowed an accused conditional freedom if they proved that they deserved a chance Clunies, Here, probation officers have the responsibility of advising the courts on circumstances that promote sentences other than prison as well as those that call for prison rather than community based sentences.
There is also minimum supervision for offenders who do not pose a significant threat to the public. This mostly involves misdemeanors and offenders generally contact their probation officers at least once a month. Medium supervision is reserved for offenders who, whilst posing no significant threat, have committed serious crimes in the past. They are required to physically see their probation officer at least once a month.
The officer is also tasked with checking on the offender at their work place or place of residence regularly. Lastly, intensive supervision is afforded to offenders with a history of violent behavior.
They are the most scrutinized to ensure that the community is not subjected to the damage they cause. Probations generally result in the probationer successfully completing their sentences but technical violations can arise if the offender commits a new crime or violates the terms of probation. Diversion programs are another option to prison. These are either educational or informational programs, or counseling and self help programs.
Educational programs are aimed mostly at first offenders. They can be directed towards juveniles who have dropped out of school by focusing on their educational needs. Adults can also be enabled to obtain a GED certificate. Informational programs target people involved in offences such as drunk driving and they strive to educate on the dangers that this poses. An example of this is how socialite Paris Hilton was committed to jail in the summer of for violating conditions of her parole.
She had failed to enroll for an alcohol education course. Counseling programs can involve the participation of family members as they are tailored to meet specific needs. They divert people thereby freeing up spaces in traditional control facilities like jails.
Community service benefits the offender as well as the community itself. By being involved in clean up activities, the offender is providing a service to his community and benefiting himself too.
This is because he gets a chance to atone for his misdeeds as well as taking responsibility whilst physically avoiding incarceration or paying fines. These programs have again enjoyed tremendous success as first and foremost, prison crowding is checked and with it the lack of money to expand correctional facilities.
The work assigned is tailored to ensure that it is meaningful in terms of prisoner rehabilitation. House arrest coupled with electronic monitoring is a concept that incorporates both old and new ways of meting out punishment. A probation officer is tasked with ensuring that the offender is always accounted for. House arrest, although relatively new, has been a success.
It saves on jail and prison bed space thus saving on rising prison costs. It also avoids the stigma that is associated with going to jail. Many people find that fitting back into the community after serving a lengthy jail term difficult. This is preferable to prison as reintegration ceases to be an issue. One can also receive tailor made programs to help them out in the confines of their own home.
Finally, other intermediate sentencing alternatives include fines for, say, traffic fines. Perhaps the most terrifying aspect of serial murder is that such killings appear random. This, however, is a misleading characterisation, for while serial killers do target strangers, their victims are not haphazard Wilson, Rather, the victims of serial killers tend to mimic the wider cultural categories of denigration characteristic of contemporary society. Such individuals, often singled out by modern institutions for reprobation, censure and marginalisation, are also disproportionately the targets of serial killers, who tend to prey upon vagrants, the homeless, prostitutes, migrant workers, homosexuals, children, the elderly and hospital patients ibid.
Such a statement keenly demonstrates the extent to which serial killers embrace and reproduce the wider cultural codings that have devalued, stigmatised and marginalised specific groups.
Through a distorted mirror, serial killers reflect back, and act upon, modernity's distinctive valuations. Recognising the dynamics of victim marginalisation is particularly germane to the study of serial killers, for the denigration of particular social groups is connected to specific opportunity structures for murder.
That the victims of serial killers tend to be drawn from modernity's disposable classes can also mean that these victims are outside of effective systems of guardianship, and are targeted not only because they are more accessible, but also because their deaths are less likely to generate timely investigation or legal consequences.
While serial killing is routinely presented as the unfathomable behaviour of the lone, decontextualised and sociopathic individual, here we have emphasised the unnervingly familiar modern face of serial killing. Several distinctively modern phenomena, including anonymity, a culture of celebrity enabled through the rise of mass media, and specific cultural frameworks of denigration, each provide key institutional frameworks, motivations and opportunity structures for analysing such acts.
To exclusively focus on aetiology and offender biography systematically ignores this larger social context, and elides a more nuanced understanding of the hows and whys of serial killing.
Braudy, L. Egger, S. Holmes, R. A number of other high profile American serial murder cases followed in the first half of the 20th century, including the terrible crimes perpetrated by Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein in the s. Even so, the dominant reaction to such crimes among members of the American public continued to be horror and incomprehension, rather than fascination.
This would all change in October , when the Justice Department held a news conference to discuss research that the FBI had been conducting into serial murder for several years. According to the FBI, at any given moment there were dozens of active serial killers at large in the United States who were responsible for thousands of deaths a year.
This information sparked a panic among the American public and suddenly serial killers were headline news coast to coast in a way they had never been before. Both law enforcement agencies and the mass media recognized they had an opportunity to capitalize on public anxiety: the FBI was able to acquire huge amounts of funding from Congress to fight serial murder, while a wide variety of popular cultural genres, including true crime books, film, television and even trading card companies quickly flooded the market with serial killer merchandise.
With the benefit of hindsight, it is clear that the scale and incidence of serial murder were grossly exaggerated during this period it was, and remains, a statistically insignificant crime , but why exactly was the American public so receptive to what they were being told about serial murder?
Because now they had a term to describe the crime, and a face to put to the crime: Ted Bundy. Bundy, who had been convicted and sentenced to death in Florida in , quickly became the poster boy for serial murder, not only because of the number and severity of his crimes he confessed to 30 murders but was suspected of killing more than women in several states over a number of years but also because, on the surface, he seemed to personify the American ideal: he was handsome, charming, educated and even had political aspirations.
The disconnect between appearance and reality came to be seen as a defining trait of serial killers and is one of the main reasons Americans find them so fascinating.
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