Essays on Serial Murder

Crimes occur every day throughout the whole world, and sometimes it is hard to identify the motives and the reasons for committing this or that crime. There is a wide range of crimes starting from small robberies and non-substantial financial frauds and finishing with mass murders, terrorist attacks and huge fraudulent activities that lead to serious consequences. Different motives drive criminals to commit terrible things: whether a greed for money, a desire of revenge, a need to become famous no matter for what, pure anger, psychological problems, etc. It is often a challenge for the investigation team from special ...

Question 1

What are the definitions of mass murder, spree murder, and serial murder? How are they different? How can you identify the difference? Please discuss the differences and give examples.

In a mass murder, a murderer kills his victims of four or more at a time, in a place with a single crime scene. The locations of the murder could be inside a home or building, on the open street, or at offices or schools. For example, on March 26, 2006, Aaron Kyle Huff, twenty-eight years old: Aaron walked in on a certain house party with three guns of more than three hundred rounds of ammunition, a black ...

Serial killer in modern classification is a killer that during each episode has committed more than three murders without an obvious motive. Although, according to the classification of FBI the determination of serial murder is different and begins from two or more kills that may be committed by one or more killers. Typically between episodes of murders there is a so-called period of cooling emotions and psychological satisfaction of killer. It is believed that most serial killers are antisocial psychological disorders treated with indifference to the suffering of others and contempt for the public morals, but very rarely suffer from distinct ...

CRIMINAL LAW

Deviance and violence 2 ABSTRACT In this paper we shall examine the phenomenon called deviation in social aspect and how it manifests itself and our approach to it. The norms that developed and established in the different societies, and the types of deviance from them. Light overview the serial murder and the frequently met obstacles that the law enforcement agencies face during investigating them like linkage blindness, making solid commitment to the investigation, coordination, analyzing information, public and media pressure, victimology and analyzing previous investigation. Follows short examination of the influence of globalization as a prerequisite ...

Criminal Law

Serial Killers According to Hickey (2003, p. 420) the investigative difficulties with regard to the serial murder investigation is the lack of recognition of foreign cases. This is a common problem in the U.S. among their foreign investigators due to the inability to identify the motive of the accused, random victims, high geographic mobility of offenders and linkage blindness. Serial crime investigations often lead to criticism, public and media pressure for failure to provide a strong identification of the accused and weak crime linkage. The investigative tools and approaches used by law enforcement include media forensic DNA analysis, case linkage system ...

Criminal Law

Thesis Statement: Drug offense carry more severe penalties compared to murder charges due to the rising number of drug-related offenses each year and serve as a measure to deter the use of prohibited drugs. At present, the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 has imposed the death penalty for all drug-related killings or murder which involves the use of drugs. Aside from this, the bill which has amended Sec. 848 of Title 21 United States Code (USC) Controlled Substances Act has imposed death penalty or life imprisonment for some of the drug offenses that cover possession of 10 kilograms and ...

Serial Murder

There is multiple definition of serial murder in the last thirty years, in the literature. These definitions share many things, but they differ on few issues. This is because they differ on the motivation of committing the murder, number of causalities, and the nature of the murder. However, attempts have been made to differentiate a serial killer from other murder, such as, spree murder, mass murder among others. As a result, the most acceptable definition of serial murder is the unlawful killing of two or more victims by the same offender(s), in separate occasions. Therefore, a serial murder is a person that ...

Arguably, the society today is full of criminal activity that has rendered many communities unsecured. The most form of crime that threatens many people is serial killing. Certainly, the crime of serial killing does not only exist in one country, but globally. As a matter of fact, media are very important tool in informing the public on various issues. For many decades, many people believe that there is a relationship between media and serial killings. Media in one way or another has boosted the fears among people, especially on serial killers. By definition, serial killers are individuals who commit various murders ...

Social Learning Problems with Children

Children with social learning problems are characterized by lack of attention, motivation to work hard, and at some extreme levels, the lack of enthusiasm to improve. These children are in need of expert assistance in order to improve on their learning skills. Learning problems do not have to do with ones intelligence rather they tend to forces more on the social constraints that hinder ones capability to learn. Learning problems mainly originates from differences in the brain. These differences have an effect on how an individual’s brain receives information, processes and, relay it. People who have learning disorders ...

Social Learning Problems with Children

A child with social learning problems are unable to pay attention, work harder, or even to have improved motivation by themselves. These children are in need of expert assistance in order to improve on their learning skills. A learning problem is not about one’s intelligence. A learning problem mainly originates from differences in the brain. This differences have an effect on an individual’s brain receives information, processes it, and how the information is communicated. People who have learning disorders have a problem in processing of sensory information. This is because they hear, see and have an understanding of ...