Are Serial Killers Born or Made?

Evidence that was gathered from books such as “Inside the Minds of Mass Murderers” and “Inside the Minds of Serial Killers,” both written by Kathertine Ramsland, provide information and evidence that killers are in fact made, not born. Some of the reasons that people believe that killers are made and not born are due to research by many psychiatrists on serial killers and mass murderers who are on death roe that have committed some of the most heinous crimes. One argument is that there is a set of factors that make people kill which are neurologic damage, abuse, and paranoid thinking (Pincus, Base Instincts). Another argument that follows the same guidelines was perceived from examining the many murders and serial killings in American history. It is believed that the childhood that a psychopath had says a lot about the person they become because we as humans learn from the environment that we are constantly in (Kelleher, 127). Overall, though there are many arguments on this thesis there was a lot of proof that people kill due to a number of factors throughout their lives and are in fact not born as murderers. The two most established types of killings in America would be mass murdering and serial killing. When we hear of a crime like this we never hear about the motives or the mindset of the killer so people automatically think that the killer must have snapped and impulsively killed. Another generalization of psychopaths is that they were born that way and their brain is significantly different than ours. Although, the generalization that makes the most sense is that killers strike due to a cluster of different factors including brain damage, environmental factors, and mental illnesses. “Brain damage from physical abuse has been the most surprising and possibly the most significant finding of the research into the causes of violence” (Pincus, 27). Cynthia Williams was in her early teens when she stabbed a girl on the school bus and killed her. When a