Jeffrey Dahmer: A Portrait Of A Serial Killer
Murder and killing is in all likelihood a topic many people may not like discussing; as it is a concern that can make almost anyone uncomfortable and uneasy. On the other hand, I’ve always had an itch for forensics and learning more about the minds of serial killers that have done damage to innocent people. The podcast, The Bad Show, on radiolab made me curious to learn more and write about serial killers and murder and why essentially, we, as people think about evil thoughts and killing. Serial killing has had its place in the eyes of the public where private, hidden desires and public fantasies cross together to people who can be known as sociopaths.
The Bad Show starts off with the topic of murder with producer Pat Walters and David Buss, …show more content…
Many criminals in fact have an antisocial personality disorder, but don’t reach the depths of clinical psychology. According to the book, Of Men And Monsters, by Richard Tithecott, claims say that Jeffrey Dahmer was molested by his father when he was eight years old which may have been the causes among the deaths of young boys and men made by Dahmer.
A quote from Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer says “it’s always the same and it’s always different.” This made me think of how serial killers murder. It is usually always the same scenario; murder and hide bodies, yet each killer has their own trait that they portray. For Ridgway, it was disposing of bodies around Green Lake and necrophilia. For Dahmer, his victims consisted only of males and he would cut up body parts and place them in odd places inside his …show more content…
The internal logic of how violent offenders decide to commit crimes, why they come up with their choice of crimes, and where it comes from ultimately leads to the question who. Who is a question Sigmund Freud pursued and is asked by psychologists today who evaluate cases. Do these serial killers learn how to manipulate their victims to their advantage from a young age? The term sociopath determines a person as one who is sane and brilliant and can even share a narcissistic personality. It’s not until science finds out a way to explain thoughts leading to an answer for all the why’s that go into murder that psychologists can know why exactly we think about killing and why serial killers
The Bad Show starts off with the topic of murder with producer Pat Walters and David Buss, …show more content…
Many criminals in fact have an antisocial personality disorder, but don’t reach the depths of clinical psychology. According to the book, Of Men And Monsters, by Richard Tithecott, claims say that Jeffrey Dahmer was molested by his father when he was eight years old which may have been the causes among the deaths of young boys and men made by Dahmer.
A quote from Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer says “it’s always the same and it’s always different.” This made me think of how serial killers murder. It is usually always the same scenario; murder and hide bodies, yet each killer has their own trait that they portray. For Ridgway, it was disposing of bodies around Green Lake and necrophilia. For Dahmer, his victims consisted only of males and he would cut up body parts and place them in odd places inside his …show more content…
The internal logic of how violent offenders decide to commit crimes, why they come up with their choice of crimes, and where it comes from ultimately leads to the question who. Who is a question Sigmund Freud pursued and is asked by psychologists today who evaluate cases. Do these serial killers learn how to manipulate their victims to their advantage from a young age? The term sociopath determines a person as one who is sane and brilliant and can even share a narcissistic personality. It’s not until science finds out a way to explain thoughts leading to an answer for all the why’s that go into murder that psychologists can know why exactly we think about killing and why serial killers