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    the social norm. Everyday people living an everyday life‚ they have urges to be violent but they don’t act upon them. That is a rather general idea of the social norm‚ since the concept of normal changes within different cultures. A deviant person is one who is departing from usual or accepted standards. There is something that is off about them as a person‚ and they don’t necessarily fit in with the social norm. A serial killer‚ for example‚ would be deemed deviant. Obviously serial killers

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    Serial Killer Unit Final A serial killer is someone who kills at constant‚ but patient rate. After some while he takes what is called a "cooling off period". The difference between a mass murdered and a serial killer is that a serial killer will kill one at a time and then cool off. While a mass murderer will kill large amounts at a time. The victims of serial killers relates strait to the childhood. Certain victims are designated because the killer has a certain dislike towards them from

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    A Critical Look at the World of Serial Killers By: Daniel Wise   Serial killing is the rarest form of homicide‚ serial killing is when a person has killed three or more people in a span of time. There is usually a “cool off” period where the individual takes a break between his killings for usually a month or more there are times where this period could be shorter. Their main motivation for killing is typically based on psychological gratification that the killer gets because they have been hurt

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    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

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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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    Are serial killers naturally‚ instinctive psychopaths or are they the result of a corrupt upbringing? Are you more at risk of becoming a smoker because of your genes or is it a result of the peers you socialize with? Now‚ these types of questions have instigated disputes among psychologists in determining who we are‚ whether it is a result of nature‚ such as heredity‚ or is it the outcome of the nurturing of one’s environment that shape our personality? In other words‚ were you born with a blank

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    Reasoning behind Serial Killers {text:bookmark-end} A serial killer is a person whom has killed at least three or more people over a period of time. This time period could be weeks‚ months‚ or even years. Condemning a serial killer for his or hers heinous crimes is easy for a person to do‚ However; one must take into consideration that nearly all serial killers were at some point victims of crimes themselves‚ whether it be from family or environment. We all know about famous serial killers throughout

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    think he is a serial killer simply because of the way he is dressed or his appearance? The news has changed the way people see serial killers as a whole and has changed people’s outlook on a certain type of man. The way media portrays serial killer’s effects both the general public and the people that are already mentally unstable. The first main effect media has on the general public is by helping to create a stereotype of a serial killer. The second effect is the birth of copycat killers. Lastly‚

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    Serial killers often mutilate their victims and abscond with trophies - usually‚ body parts. They treat their prey as a disturbed child would treat her rag dolls. Some of them have been known to eat the organs they have ripped - an act of merging with the dead and assimilating them through digestion. Killing the victim - often capturing him or her on film before the murder - is a form of exerting unmitigated‚ absolute‚ and irreversible control over it. The serial killer aspires to "freeze time"

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    Research paper Serial Killers: Are They Born or Made? There are many theories as to why people become serial killers. Almost all of these concepts are associated with the Nature vs. Nurture theory. Are serial killers born with the need to kill‚ or is it something that they learn to long for as they grew up? Many believe that the nurture theory is the likely concept to believe; that serial killers are created from bad childhood experiences including being abused by their parents‚ or molested at an

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