Biology of Serial Killers

Pakhomou (2004) defines a serial killer as a person who commits numerous homicides of different kinds in a repetitive manner and nature. On the other hand, Knight (2007) defines serial murder as the killing within a period of 30 days of three or more people. Such killings are committed by sadists and pervasive persons and they reflect displaced aggression, fantasies and destruction. This indicates clearly that, a serial killer doe’s not just carryout the act by being in a normal situation, but they act due to many eminent factors that lead them to carrying out the malicious act. These factors could be influenced by drugs and substance use, overwhelming sexual desire, carrying out revenge, or desire to acquire property.

Sexual homicide is one of the malicious acts of serial killers; various researchers have therefore postulated the various factors that lead to this. In highlight, these factors may be presence of tumors on the brain of the serial killer, various kinds of brain injury, cerebral dysfunction on one of the hemispheres of the head, or inadequate cortical arousal. On the other hand, some researchers claim that abandoning of the child during infancy, intense child abuse, and provision of inadequate social services to the child are the key elements to building a deviant individual. This individual is characterized by violence in all his or her endeavors. In addition, this kind of malicious behavior could be hereditary in nature or influenced and imposed by poor upbringing of the child. Thus the individual just do what his mind perceives is good and needs to be done.

According to Egan, serial killers may be grouped as psychotics or psychopaths. Psychotics are limited in number in the most of societies in the world. Th...

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...astle, 2002). This therefore calls for intensive study on the same from various researchers, or academic scholars. The vice of serial killings should not be tolerated in the society and thus, instead of punishing by imprisonment or other kinds of punitive punishment, the culprits should be taken to a rehabilitation center. And as the scientific research is carried out with the new ways of technology, a biological solution that would reverse the act should be sort and applied.

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