Jeffrey Dahmer Case Study Of Criminal Behavior

Dahmer was your normal quiet nerdy kid growing up, besides the fact that he would go around collecting dead animals in the neighborhood and dissect them at his house. His later acts included the compulsive masturbating, and becoming a homosexual. He was kicked out from his house after being discharged from the military, and he moved to his grandparents. His grandmother admitted to routinely finding different weapons in his room and to him being very strange. Shortly after Dahmers second arrest in 1986 for the indecent expose again, Dahmers grandmother kicked him out because of this strange behavior he was continuously doing. A short time thereafter, was when the serious crimes had begun, starting his evolution into being one of the most horrific serial killers of all time. The day after Dahmer moved out and into an apartment, Jeffrey was arrested for drugging and a sexually fondling a thirteen year old boy. He was sentenced to five years probation and was required to register as a sex offender. Still continuing to grow into prototypical serial killer of his time. His crimes were gruesome and involved torture, rape, cannibalism, necrophilia and dismemberment. In his apartment he had many different body parts, chemicals and organs scattered throughout his apartment. Dahmer 's weird mental fantasies included a chain of crimes against his victim 's corpses. For most of his victims the scene was the same and it more often than not began with consensual sex. He would often meet his victims in gay bars and go with them to his apartment often after enticing them with free booze or money. Once the consensual sex was over, he would drug them, sometimes kill them and then kill them usually by strangulation or by stabbing. He would then masturbate over the cadaver or have sex with the dead body. His next step was usually dismembering where he cut up the corpse into parts using his power saw. With the use of acid he removed the meat from the skulls and kept them as achievement trophies of his collection. In addition to the skulls, he usually stored other body parts like the heart in his refrigerator or in vaults and he ate these parts on occasion. Their genitalia were also kept as memoirs while the muscles were kept for future use. Jeffrey also performed lobotomies on some of his victims. To some he drilled a hole in their skulls and poured acid. This made the victim stay alive but in a zombie like state for days. From the things found in his house on his arrest, it was found that Jeffrey used chloroform to drug his victims. The male genitalia were saved in formaldehyde. Simply put, Jeffrey was a serial killer who killed his victims brutally, had sex with their corpses, chopped their bodies up, and later ate some of the parts. Dahmer plead guilty to a series of gruesome murders of seventeen men during his thirteen years killing spree, spanning from 1978 to 1991 when he was arrested. Most of his victims were young and …show more content…
George Palermo who was an expert witness of the case ordered by the judge, he testified saying “an organized, non-social, lust murderer`` who was methodical, shrewd and in control of what he was doing. Jeffrey Dahmer knew exactly what he was doing. He took precautions. He knew the consequences of his actions. But he did not want to stop.” Also saying, “``Nobody can deny that Jeffrey Dahmer is a sick person. he is not psychotic.. He was legally sane at the time of the offenses.” He testified that Dahmer suffered from Necrophilia, which is an attraction to corpses. Furthermore, he said he found Dahmer to be smart, emotionally relaxed, and his thinking processes were logical and rational; as well as indifferent to the feelings of others, self-centered, a sexual sadist, and obsessed with a fantasy of having power over others. Some critical information about Dr. George Palermo found would be that he was centralized where the trial took place, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was around 75 the time of the trial. He founded The Center for Forensic Psychiatry and Risk Assessment. He is also a)neurologist. He attended University Di Bologna, in Italy, in 1951. He later was certified with the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology