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Response to Mass Casuality Events Like Beltway Snipers

Beltway. Initially, law enforcement officers thought there was just one sniper. They responded by processing each crime scene acco...

Hunting Humans

they must be understood in the context of society as a whole. Because it is their relationship to society-or their inability to fi...

Jack the Ripper and His Impact on History

mostly prostitutes - were savagely murdered and mutilated by an unknown assailant, but after November 1888, the slayings stopped a...

Dahmer, the Mind of a Serial Killer

marriage broke-up and their was an acrimonious divorce (Jeffrey Dahmer, 2009). Dahmer developed alcoholism in high school. After g...

Serial Killers and Mass Murderers

or days (Siegel, 2008). A spree killer is like a mass murderer except the spree killer moves from place to place (Clark, 2007). Se...

Hermann Ebbinghaus Life and Contributions

f?r Psychologie und Physiologie der Sinnesorgane (Hermann Ebbinghaus). (The title translates roughly as the "Journal of Psychology...

What Do Killers Think

have become far more visible over the last few decades, such as spousal abuse, school violence, child abuse, car-jacking, and so o...

BOOK REVIEW: MIND HUNTER

because it shows the toll of Douglas work on his health and personal life. This is very clear from the first paragraph of the prol...

Bias in Decision Making

manner to a lesser extent. In investment decision this is also known as the sunk cost fallacy (Howells and Bain, 2007). There ar...

Criminal Profiling and Other Issues

artists, ruthless manipulators, and petty criminals. Psychopaths usually commit crimes because they like to control, dominate, and...

First US Serial Killer Herman Mudgett

In eight pages this paper examines the documentation related to Herman Mudgett, who is believed to be the first known serial kille...

US Culture and Violence

In five pages this paper discusses US culture's representation of violence in an overview of the actual events involving serial ki...

Annotated Bibliography on Female Serial Killers

In eleven pages this paper discusses women serial killers in a comparison and contrast with their male counterparts in this journa...

Journey into Darkness by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker

In six pages this paper examines psychological criminal profiling of serial killers and how it can also be applied to someone who ...

Causes and Diagnosis of Asthma

In seven pages asthma is examined in terms of environmental and biological causes along with diagnostic techniques such as Sensiti...

A Ted Bundy Profile

In five pages the serial killer's early life is discussed in order to determine what may have set him on a murderous path. There ...

Inside the Criminal Mind by Stanton Samenow and Mass Murderers

done regarding the men and (some) women who kill repeatedly. "Inside the Criminal Mind" Dr. Stanton E. Samenow would agree with...

Motivations and Personalities of Serial Killers

has also been pointed out that those with active or high fantasy prone imaginations are more apt to be able to become serial kille...

Childhood of Serial Murderers Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer

In six pages this paper searches for clues in the childhoods of these serial killers in order to determine whether or not anything...

Serial Killers' Personalities

London, England. This case remained unsolved, with speculation regarding the possible culprit. Rumours of a Royal or an American c...

Types of Serial Killers

relative change in the number of incidents. Mitchell (1996) cites the words of retired FBI Agent Robert Ressler: "Serial killing ...

Overview of Serial Killers

is irrefutable. Senator Ed Perlmutter, who sponsored a bill to stiffen the punishment of animal cruelty charges, has no doubt th...

Serial Rapists

sex lives and then asked them to pray for him" (79). The police did not know whom to suspect in the rapes. From their point of v...

The Night Stalker by Philip Carlo

Yet, incongruously he demonstrated that he can act with compassion towards his family and he loves his sister dearly. It would be ...

Loni Athens' Brutalization Theories and Carignan, the 'Want Ad' Serial Killer

their own. The placing of the want-ad, however, seems to have been an isolated incident: he was more inclined to give his victims ...

Creating a Serial Killer

serial killers may be influenced by the society and the media that is all around them. La Donna tells us that a child may see as m...

A Serial Killer's Needs and the Application of Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

Of course, this is not unusual. There have been numerous serial killers who have led ordinary lives. In fact, there is a stereotyp...

Serial Killer Glen Rogers

(Barasch, 1996; p. 226). Profile In understanding something of the way in which Rogers worked we look at one particular incide...

Randy Woodfield, 'the I5 Killer'

killing spree along the I-5 section of interstate. His story seems to typify that of several other serial killers, Ted Bundy, for ...

Investigation of the Green River Serial Killer Gary Ridgway

decomposed and hard to identify. Although Ridgway had always been considered one of the top five suspects in the case, County sher...