Are We all Simply Serial Killers or Are Serial Killers Different from the Rest of Us?

Peter Vronsky wrote two different books about serial killers. The first is his book Serial Killers, which covers all of the definitions of what a serial killer is, both men and women. Though the main focus in this book was on the men. The second is his book Female Serial Killers, which goes into a more detailed description of just female serial killers. Everything in the second book could have been included in the Serial Killers book instead of being divided into a completely separate book. Within these two books the different kinds of serial killers is very clear. But what is interesting is that in the Serial Killers book the differences between the way women and men kill is not very separate, but in the Female Serial Killers book Vronsky makes it seem as if female killers and male killers kill in completely different ways by stating:
“‘Instrumental’ violence, however, murder for a purpose, - political power, rape, sadistic pleasure, robbery, or some other base gratification – remains the domain of the male. After all, every male is a potential killer in the form of a warrior – and he only becomes a murderer when he misuses his innate physical and socialized capacity to kill for ignoble, immoral, and impolitic reason. While the male is built and programmed to destroy, the female nests, creates, and nurtures. Or so the story goes”.
The different types of serial killers are separated between categories but are also separated by gender based off of what Vronsky has stated in his books. Serial Killers are physically the same as everyone else in the world including the ones we celebrate as Founding Fathers, Brave Soldiers, and those who kill to protect country and for God. Though society and governments find reasons to justify their...

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Works Cited

Vronsky, Peter. Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters. New York: Berkley, 2007. Print.
Vronsky, Peter. Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters. New York: Berkley, 2004. Print.