Serial Murder Essay

The structural traditional is less keen on, for example, the microdynamics of the pathology of individual serial killers and with breaking down crime scene patterns, and more so on large-scale questions concerning which groups most consistently succumb to serial murder, the periods in history when there were more (or less) serial killers, and which countries seem to produce more serial killers than others. As with the medico-psychological tradition, there is additionally a set of assumptions underlying the structural tradition. Most notable is the notion that at any given time there will always be a small number of people who will want to repeatedly kill, for various reasons. If this fact were invariable, why is it that only sometimes, in some societies, serial murder becomes problematic? This brings us to consider how these offenders gain
Canadian anthropologist Professor Elliot Leyton (1986) in his seminal book Hunting Humans: The Rise of the Modern Multiple Murderer, was perhaps one of the first academics to contend that we should analyse factors beyond the medico-psychological tradition to understand the phenomenon of serial murder. His central thesis, derived from evidence of North American serial killing following the end of World War II, was that "modern" serial murder should be seen as a type of "homicidal protest" by frustrated members of the upper-working-class and lower-middle-class who tend to kill victims from the middle-classes.
Researchers also maintain that there is evidence of a degree of socio-economic frustration among some British serial killers. Be that as it may, they claim that it would be both bold and inappropriate to classify socio-economic frustration as either a sufficient or necessary condition for serial