Serial Murder Essay

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A REFINED DEFINITION OF SEXUALLY MOTIVATED SERIAL MURDER
Serial murder has been defined earlier in this article, however, it is necessary to further refine this definition if the focus is on sexually motivated serial murder.
This means that such a definition should include motivation and the essential character of serial sexual murder. The author proposes that such a refined definition may be:
Sexually motivated serial murder is the killing of three or more victims over a period of more than 30 days, with a significant cooling-off period.
The sexual nature of the crime, which may – or may not – be explicit, is perverse and sadistic and reflects an aggression that is particularly destructive, pathological and rooted in violent fantasies that …show more content…

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