The five motives that I chose to discuss that induce a person to kill are Financial Gain, Sexual Gratification, Emotional, Self-Protection and Apparently sex-connected homicides.
The first on is financial gain. Someone will be driven to murder another person if they knew they stood to gain a large sum of money. This can include the beneficiary of a will or insurance policy of a spouse or relative. In addition, they could receive financial gain by being the surviving spouse in a community property or the person who stands to profit from the death of a business competitor. A murder for the purposes of avoiding a debt is also a murder for financial gain.
Sexual Gratification is an apparent motive to kill someone. It is also called “lust murder”. It is when the murderer hunts for sexual gratification by killing someone. Wanting a new or younger mate has led to the murder of a spouse. This type of crime is manifested either by murder during sexual intercourse and/or by mutilating the sexual organs or areas of the victim's body. It sometimes includes such activities as removing clothing from the body, posing and propping of the body in different sexual positions, insertion of objects into human openings, and performing of sex acts on a human corpse. …show more content…
Strong emotions such as anger, jealousy, revenge, envy and hatred can provoke a person to kill. Many people have problems controlling their anger. If someone hurts them, rather than forgiving or reporting the matter to the authorities, they take the law into their own hands and murder their rival. There are the killings that happen within families and people murder those they had loved at one time. The sense of betrayal transforms their love into hate and lovers become enemies. Spouses who once vowed undying love can kill each other because of jealousy. You also have the domestic and family violence killings, particularly children and
The first on is financial gain. Someone will be driven to murder another person if they knew they stood to gain a large sum of money. This can include the beneficiary of a will or insurance policy of a spouse or relative. In addition, they could receive financial gain by being the surviving spouse in a community property or the person who stands to profit from the death of a business competitor. A murder for the purposes of avoiding a debt is also a murder for financial gain.
Sexual Gratification is an apparent motive to kill someone. It is also called “lust murder”. It is when the murderer hunts for sexual gratification by killing someone. Wanting a new or younger mate has led to the murder of a spouse. This type of crime is manifested either by murder during sexual intercourse and/or by mutilating the sexual organs or areas of the victim's body. It sometimes includes such activities as removing clothing from the body, posing and propping of the body in different sexual positions, insertion of objects into human openings, and performing of sex acts on a human corpse. …show more content…
Strong emotions such as anger, jealousy, revenge, envy and hatred can provoke a person to kill. Many people have problems controlling their anger. If someone hurts them, rather than forgiving or reporting the matter to the authorities, they take the law into their own hands and murder their rival. There are the killings that happen within families and people murder those they had loved at one time. The sense of betrayal transforms their love into hate and lovers become enemies. Spouses who once vowed undying love can kill each other because of jealousy. You also have the domestic and family violence killings, particularly children and