Contract Killer Profile
Joseph Egan
English 1010-09
Elliot
The Profile of a Contract Killer
When taking a dive into the taboos of society a great number of things come to mind, everything from prostitution to drug rings, but both these and many of their counterparts are connected to one common thing, that thing is organized crime. Organized crime is any criminal operation or illegal activity that operates within a system outside the law. That being said it’s obviously a dangerous business; one that must be run with an iron fist, that fist is the professional hit man. Contract killers have earned a sinister title within society, but more curious is how they actually react to their crimes, and the idea that there are varying types of contract killers. When …show more content…
These hit men tend to be most typically government agents and volunteers more often than not receiving almost unmentionable rewards for their tasks while working. These men and women tend to be government assassins, those who have worked in espionage, black ops, or urban combat settings targeting individual targets for elimination. The primary factor that separates them from other solders is that all of their murders are pre-meditated, their planned in such a way that they know the face, personality, and daily routine of the target, making it a whole other psychological ball game. These individuals rarely have any financial incentive and are often only rewarded post career, something many of them never live to see. One of the most notable of these cases is a personal account in the book “The Assassin and the Therapist” in which the author, Jeffery Kottler a therapist, records the personal accounts of his client, Jacob, whom was an assassin for Israel during the liberation. Though Jacob was himself a Jew and fighting for the freedom of his people Kottler speaks of Jacob’s notable PTSD symptoms. Because of the nature of such acts, with them being individually targeted and personalized rather than against a random enemy, and with them being premeditated to the point of dates, times, and places, a new form of PTSD stemmed directly from one’s own actions has been made official. Though …show more content…
Publication: New York : Thunder 's Mouth Press ; Emeryville, CA : Distributed by Publishers Group West,
Edition: 1st ed.
Year: 1992
Title: El Sicario : the autobiography of a Mexican assassin /
Author(s): Sicario. Molloy, Molly.
Bowden, Charles, 1945-
Publication: New York : Nation Books,
Year: 2011
Title: The Ice man: confessions of a mafia contract killer
Author(s): Carlo, Philip.
Prichard, Michael. ; (Narrator)
Publication: [Old Saybrook, Conn.] : Tantor Media,
Edition: Library ed.
Year: 2006
Description: 16 sound discs (18.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Title: The mammoth book of the mafia
Author(s): Cawthorne, Nigel,; 1951-
Cawthorne, Colin.
Publication: London : Robinson ; Philadelphia : Running Press,
Year: 2009
Title: Minds on trial : great cases in law and psychology
Author(s): Ewing, Charles Patrick, 1949-
McCann., Joseph T.
Publication: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,
Year:
English 1010-09
Elliot
The Profile of a Contract Killer
When taking a dive into the taboos of society a great number of things come to mind, everything from prostitution to drug rings, but both these and many of their counterparts are connected to one common thing, that thing is organized crime. Organized crime is any criminal operation or illegal activity that operates within a system outside the law. That being said it’s obviously a dangerous business; one that must be run with an iron fist, that fist is the professional hit man. Contract killers have earned a sinister title within society, but more curious is how they actually react to their crimes, and the idea that there are varying types of contract killers. When …show more content…
These hit men tend to be most typically government agents and volunteers more often than not receiving almost unmentionable rewards for their tasks while working. These men and women tend to be government assassins, those who have worked in espionage, black ops, or urban combat settings targeting individual targets for elimination. The primary factor that separates them from other solders is that all of their murders are pre-meditated, their planned in such a way that they know the face, personality, and daily routine of the target, making it a whole other psychological ball game. These individuals rarely have any financial incentive and are often only rewarded post career, something many of them never live to see. One of the most notable of these cases is a personal account in the book “The Assassin and the Therapist” in which the author, Jeffery Kottler a therapist, records the personal accounts of his client, Jacob, whom was an assassin for Israel during the liberation. Though Jacob was himself a Jew and fighting for the freedom of his people Kottler speaks of Jacob’s notable PTSD symptoms. Because of the nature of such acts, with them being individually targeted and personalized rather than against a random enemy, and with them being premeditated to the point of dates, times, and places, a new form of PTSD stemmed directly from one’s own actions has been made official. Though …show more content…
Publication: New York : Thunder 's Mouth Press ; Emeryville, CA : Distributed by Publishers Group West,
Edition: 1st ed.
Year: 1992
Title: El Sicario : the autobiography of a Mexican assassin /
Author(s): Sicario. Molloy, Molly.
Bowden, Charles, 1945-
Publication: New York : Nation Books,
Year: 2011
Title: The Ice man: confessions of a mafia contract killer
Author(s): Carlo, Philip.
Prichard, Michael. ; (Narrator)
Publication: [Old Saybrook, Conn.] : Tantor Media,
Edition: Library ed.
Year: 2006
Description: 16 sound discs (18.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Title: The mammoth book of the mafia
Author(s): Cawthorne, Nigel,; 1951-
Cawthorne, Colin.
Publication: London : Robinson ; Philadelphia : Running Press,
Year: 2009
Title: Minds on trial : great cases in law and psychology
Author(s): Ewing, Charles Patrick, 1949-
McCann., Joseph T.
Publication: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,
Year: