Should serial killers

Taking a look at Jeffrey Dahmers childhood you will find that at an early age he was a fun and active child who his father described as, "Very exuberant, he liked to wrestle, liked to run around, ham it up for the camera and he liked to play with kids and get together with them" The Monster Within. These are not characteristics of a serial killer who scientists say are born with this gene of aggressiveness.

Dahmer had been a normal child until his father received his Ph. D in chemistry the family moved to Ohio relocating three times before settling down in Bath Ohio. When Dahmer had moved his father and mother noticed that he had become shy and anti-social. Jeffrey then began collecting road kill and dissecting it in experiments. Criminologists and social behavioral psychologists have come to argue that "childhood experiences" and "repeated psychological trauma," during the early stages of growing up can cause a child to seek relief through activities of violence such as killing small animals.

And violent. At fourteen, she'd already been dropping cats from windows for years. Sometimes she'd squeeze them to death" Corin Much like Dahmer, when his parents began to fight he felt alone and would escape by himself out into the woods to find comfort in the pile of dead carcasses he had collected. Feeling abandoned by not only his parents but classmates he tried to seek attention by those around him by doing what his classmates called a "Dahmer," which was to act up and do things that were out of the norm and socially unacceptable.

Unlike his family and classmates the dead carcasses gave him a feeling of comfort, fulfillment, pleasure and emotional release. Sociologist Arnold Arluke compared the criminal records of one hundred and fifty three animal abusers with one hundred and fifty three non animal abusers and what he found in his study is that those who were animal abusers were five times more likely to commit acts of violence such as assault, rape, and murder against others.

What was understood from this study is that serial killers in their childhood would resort to killing animals because they felt powerless against their parents who had control over them.

Since these children did not have control in the household, they resorted to killing small animals in which they could exert their dominance and power over to do anything that pleased them Fox In a study of sixty two male serial killers, Eric Hicky a criminologist found that, forty eight percent of them had been rejected as children by a parent or some other important person in their lives Fox Though this happens to many children, it certainly represents a turning point for those who become serial killers.

Once rejected many of these killers begin to dive into their self indulgences and are unable to understand how and who they are when going through puberty. Victims of abuse and rejection, serial killers find comfort in their fantasies and dreams that take them into a realm that only they can control.

Psychokillers take their fantasies and make them a reality living their dreams. Growing up Jeffrey Dahmer had felt rejected by his parents and in turn kept the violent homosexual thoughts inside of him.

Dahmer fantasized of having a male sexual partner but in his thoughts he received pleasure not only by having intercourse but also killing his partner. The need to kill fulfils this sexual desire of many killers turning their fantasies into a controllable reality. Without a proper relationship to model after in the household many of these killers do not understand to truly must interact with each other and coexist peacefully.

Serial killers are violent humans and the only way to stop their killing sprees many argue is to put a stop to domestic violence in the household.

Understanding how and why serial killers commit such horrific crimes is an important step to stopping the homicidal rampages these psychokillers go on. Scientists searched and found what is believed to be hard evidence, that genetics is the key role in determining who becomes a serial killer unlike criminologists and psychologists who argue that large events such as abuse and abandonment create the setting and foundation in which serial killers grow into sadistic mass murders.

Though both arguments are strongly proved and explained through research and statistics neither are individually the answer to why serial killers exist. In reviewing the evidence of both explanations I have found that it is a mix of both genetics and cultural upbringings. Though many humans must deal with violent situations as children and experience horrific events many do not become mass murderers. It is true that many children who are victims of abuse become violent in their adult lives but to cross into the category of a serial killer one must be born with a different biochemical makeup.

In my conclusion nature does choose what traits we are born with but at the same time these traits cannot be exposed without a mechanism that triggers these individuals to commit these horrific crimes.

Without the alignment of both natural genetic defects and the cultural nurturing in which humans are brought up in, serial killers cannot become vicious killers. If we can curb domestic violence then the chances for a serial killer to become violent will decrease significantly making our world a safer place.

Bibliography Bromberg, Walter. New York: Macmillan, Corin, Lucy. Fox, James Alan and Jack Levin. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, Abel, Donald C. Freud on Instinct and Morality. The main motivation for committing these murders is getting the psychological and physiological pleasure. By definition, a priori, serial killers are people with mental disorders.

In principle, a person who commits such brutal killings cannot be considered a normal one Promish, In the humane society it is immoral even to imagine the possibility of murder or mistreatment of animals, not to mention such behavior with people. But if there is something forbidden, then for sure there is someone who wants to get it.

No laws and threats will stop a person who has dealt cruelly with innocent people. And, of course, the question of penalties for such people rises. Most often, when it comes to trial, the defendants appealed to their mental disorders. And every time the seriousness of this argument for acquittal awakes discussions. The question whether serial killers should be able to plead insanity is almost as much controversial and debatable as the issue of capital punishment.

Opinions differ. In most civilized countries the court pays special attention to people whose behavior is the result of certain mental disorders. Modern justice system in different countries sometimes accepts this fact as the reason to acquit the accused. The great role still plays some cases when accused try to avoid punishment via appealing to his mental disease.

A lot of mental specialists, advocates and indifferent people discuss this problem. Proponents of the death penalty say it is an important tool for preserving law and order, deters crime, and costs less than life imprisonment. The United States does not have a specific guideline to sentencing murderers, including serial killers.

When a killer is apprehended, he will be charged with murder, and if convicted can get life in prison or receive the death penalty, depending on in which state the murders took place. The death penalty violates the most fundamental human right — the right to life. It is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. An innocent person may be released from prison for a crime they did not commit, but an execution can never be reversed. Improper handling of evidence and a lack of presentation of other items were also part of the issue, along with a lack of federal review despite all of these concerns.

Even one innocent person being put to death by the state is too many. The cost to prosecute the death penalty is much higher than other cases. At the time of the procedure, condemned prisoner Romell Broom was only the second inmate nationally to survive an execution after they began in modern times.