Jeffrey Dahmer As A Serial Killer

As disturbing as it is serial killers are everywhere, maybe not in our neighborhood, but they aren’t fiction as many people think they are. These people are vicious and have the abnormal urge to kill. What gives them this urge to kill and kill again? How are they different from normal people? What circumstances pushed them to commit such acts? What goes on in their minds? These are just some of the questions that revolve in peoples head when they shockingly learn that their neighbor or coworker is a serial killer. Many people have lost their loved ones through serial killers. It’s bad enough that a person has to go through the loss of losing a loved one, but by the hand of serial killer, who has no remorse or respect for another human, makes

The obstacles we go through in life and how we react to them defines us. Likely, the environment, especially the home environment, plays a very big role in the development of a serial killer. Usually most serial killers have gone through some sort of childhood trauma which later on results in their acts. Jeffrey Dahmer, a serial killer who was a quiet, shy man and had committed several murders on young boys and men. Jeffrey Dahmer’s father was an engineer and his mother would usually suffer from psychotic breaks, depression and sucidal thoughts. His father was never emotionally present and his mother was too self involved with her diseases. Dahmer made no connection with a person he trusted. Dahmer was constantly bullied at school and he was so lonely that he once bought a mannequin that he would lay next to when his parents were not home (Martens, 2011). As Maslow would say his need to belong was not met at home or at school. Negative childhood traumas increase the likelihood of psychotic tendencies in adulthood. It is not shocking that he found solace in the sense of being powerful by killing

They conducted MRI’s on 40 inmates at the Wisconsin prison. The results showed that in the case of psychopaths there is significantly less communication from the prefrontal cortex (ventromedial) area of the brain to the amygdala. The brain scans of criminals of opportunity’ brain show a close connection between the part of the brain that is responsible for overseeing fear and the part of the brain the controls emotions. This indicates, the latter are remorseful and surrender to the police. (Nistor-Lung & Neagu, 2013). All of these studies yield the same results that the amygdala plays a crucial role in the mind of a serial killer versus a normal human being. Serial killers lack the ability to perceive and understand their emotions and others emotions. This is precisely why serial killers feel no remorse after their killings, while a normal human being