COM 103: Public Speaking OUTLINE Specific Goal: To inform my audience about the psychology of the serial killer. Introduction: A. There are possibly 20-100 of them active in the U.S. B. They are sociopathic‚ psychopathic monsters that hide behind the masks of normal everyday people. C. They have no conscience‚ no empathy‚ no feelings or remorse. Only apathy. A dark empty world where the only sense of satisfaction and feeling comes from taking the life of
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A serial killer is defined as a person who kills “three or more victims over a period of days‚ weeks‚ months‚ or even years” (Hickey‚ 2003). However‚ since 2008 the minimum number of victims needed to be classified as a serial killer has been reduced to two (Hickey 2015). Although the classification of a serial killer is rather broad‚ typologies of serial murder exist in order to narrow the vast types of killers. Hickey uses Holmes’ and DeBurger’s (1988) research to identify four types of general
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The Mind of Serial Killers Aileen Wuornos‚ Ted Bundy‚ Son of Sam‚ and Jeffrey Dahmer all have one thing in common‚ but what is it? They are all notorious serial killers; they had made themselves known for their horrific cold-blooded acts of violence. The real question is “what is inside the mind of a killer”? Not very many people look into this because they are more interested in the crimes they had committed‚ but for me‚ I would like to look into the thing that encouraged these acts
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serial killer they use three main areas of investigational analysis; the micro level of analysis which investigates to function and the structure of the brain‚ the molecular level of analysis which investigates behavior‚ and the moral level which investigates the interactions of the individual on the people and the environment around him. When trying to catch a serial killer the behavioral analysis’s dig all the way down to the basics by investigating the functions and working of the killers own
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The Twisted Mind of a Serial Killer As police walk into an abandoned house‚ a foul stench overtakes them. The room is dim and looks as though no one has been here for months. They walk further into the house and begin to see spots of blood on the floor. They follow this trail down the stairs into the basement where the smell becomes overwhelming‚ causing some of the officers to gasp and run back up the stairs. In the basement‚ they find the remains of several young boys who have been molested
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Why whale hunting should be banned. Whale hunting or whaling is hunting whales for commercial use‚ to get oil‚ food‚ or be used for scientific studies. Whaling has been going on for thousands of years‚ originally whales where killed for food but more recently they have been hunted for more industrial purposes like the liver for oil or using whale teeth for buttons and jewellery. Whale oil is even can even be used for alcohol‚ soap and even lipstick. After World War 2‚ Japan had a shortage of food
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Copeland killers Would you think that two people old enough to be grandparents would be murders? In this case‚ they are murders Ray and Faye Copeland have murdered people and have kept their victims clothing to make a blanket out of them. As far as the motive is concerned‚ I would say that it has to do with the choice theory on how the main motive is criminal enterprise to just use the Drifters as long as they were needed and then get rid of them for good. Ray was born in 1914 in Harrison Arkansas;
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A “Serial killer” is defined as a person who murders two or more people over a series of time‚ usually in service of uncharacteristic psychological pleasure. Serial murders are crimes that are not only observed here in the US but are observed all across the world. Serial murder occurring in countries such as Russia and China are rarely heard of due to restrictions placed on media outlets within those countries. Here in the US‚ the media has a tenancies to sensationalize the serial killer as well as
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Are serial killers born or made? Nature chooses what genes/traits we are born with‚ but at the same time‚ these traits cannot be expressed without a mechanism that triggers these individuals to commit these horrific crimes. A serial killer is typically a person who murders three or more people‚ usually in the service of abnormal psychological gratification‚ and the murders take place over a significant period of time. Bromberg (2011) states‚ “Serial killers are not your “regular” homicidal murderer
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Serial killers do not come about in one definitive way. Instead‚ there are a plethora of reasons why someone engages in serial murder. These reasons range from nature to nurture. Serial murderers become killers due to biological standpoints as well as to the way in which an individual was raised and how it impacted them; frequently‚ nature and nurture work together. Literature Review Categorizing Approximately two-thirds of serial murderers are diagnosed "as suffering from Personality Disorder
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