On request of the Chief Investigative Officer of the Ontario Provincial Police, the following psychological and criminal profile of American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer (1960 – 1994) was prepared by criminal profiler Alex Kwiatkowski with the objective of establishing the motivates and psychological factors that lead to the violent up-bringing and crimes perpetrated by the offender.
Although at the time of the analysis the offender was deceased and unable to be interviewed, Alex Kwiatkowski reviewed information of the case and the life of the offender. With the information Alex Kwiatkowski analyzed, he was able to form connections between the offender and the vicious attacks and concluded potential motives for the crimes. The analysis will explore the following areas of the offender: early life, method of operation, paraphilia, mental health examination, and pre and post-offence behaviour.
Son of Lionel and Joyce Dahmer, Jeffrey was born on May 21, 1960 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Problems in his youth began to emerge at the age of six with the relocation of him and his family to Doylestown, Ohio. Once an outgoing and enthusiastic young boy, Jeffrey became socially awkward, shy, and insecure about himself after the …show more content…
He did not seem to have a specific type of subject in mind as out of his seventeen victims fourteen were from ethnic groups. The only similarities were that they were all male. His victims ranged from age fourteen to thirty-two years old (Department of Psychology, Radford University). He lured his victims back to his apartment typically for offers of sex or prostitution. On many occasions, he would drug his victims with sleeping pills because he had “difficulty obtaining erections while his partners were awake” (C. Oliver, Encyclopedia of Crime, p87). This suggests Dahmer had difficulty retaining relationships and wanted a submissive sexual
Although at the time of the analysis the offender was deceased and unable to be interviewed, Alex Kwiatkowski reviewed information of the case and the life of the offender. With the information Alex Kwiatkowski analyzed, he was able to form connections between the offender and the vicious attacks and concluded potential motives for the crimes. The analysis will explore the following areas of the offender: early life, method of operation, paraphilia, mental health examination, and pre and post-offence behaviour.
Son of Lionel and Joyce Dahmer, Jeffrey was born on May 21, 1960 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Problems in his youth began to emerge at the age of six with the relocation of him and his family to Doylestown, Ohio. Once an outgoing and enthusiastic young boy, Jeffrey became socially awkward, shy, and insecure about himself after the …show more content…
He did not seem to have a specific type of subject in mind as out of his seventeen victims fourteen were from ethnic groups. The only similarities were that they were all male. His victims ranged from age fourteen to thirty-two years old (Department of Psychology, Radford University). He lured his victims back to his apartment typically for offers of sex or prostitution. On many occasions, he would drug his victims with sleeping pills because he had “difficulty obtaining erections while his partners were awake” (C. Oliver, Encyclopedia of Crime, p87). This suggests Dahmer had difficulty retaining relationships and wanted a submissive sexual