Murderers: Nature vs. Nurture The nature vs. nurture debate helps researchers explain ones actions based on either their genetic traits or based on how they were raised. The nature side offers an explanation for the persons inherited genetic traits to help explain their actions such as how they behavior especially at a younger age. The nurture part helps give one an explanation to how a person behaves or acts based on the environmental factors that person was raised in and how society could have “created them”. This argument can be presented in the Clutter family murder on whether the murderers, Dick and Perry, were influenced by nature or nurture factors.
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Today many claim that society creates such monsters to do the unthinkable. Salvatore states that “observations on the lives of serial killers and their experiences clearly shows that nurture takes the dominant role in the creation of a serial killer,” home life plays a key factor in creating such a criminal. If a child were to grow up in bad environmental factors with parents that did not show much support could cause that child to be permanently damaged psychologically. Ted Bundy displays a great example of how a murderer can be created by society. During his early life “Bundy was often teased and made the butt of pranks by bullies in middle school,” this and some other life changing events helped fuel his killing sprees as an adult (Salvatore). Although nurture plays a larger factor in why murderers are created by society, but also nature could be argumentatively played into why some would want to commit such horrific …show more content…
Brograad states in “The Making of a Serial Killer” that when murderers and psychopaths are tested the “Brain scans revealed that psychopathy in criminals was associated with decreased connectivity between the amygdala,” which the amygdala is the center for controlling emotions. This translates into why murderers or psychopaths do not feel negative emotion or guilty when committing such horrific crimes. This can help explain why Dick did not feel as much guilt because he was the mastermind behind the Clutter family murder while Perry did not really want to go through with the murder and felt guilty afterwards about it. Even after the murder of the Clutter family Dick was still willing to kill people as when he was planning to kill the person that offered him a ride and steal his car. Jeffery Dahmer is a great example of how nature can breed such a killer. Jeffery Dahmer, at an early age, would dissect animals just to see what was inside them and how they worked. This behavior cannot be correlated with nurture because he was very young and was not taught such actions. The “innocent interesting behavior” grew as he eventually moved into performing such actions to living humans. These terrifying actions are not correlated with nurture at all as he was not raised to be this way. Dahmer just simply had
The murderers of the Clutter family, Dick and Perry, could have been influenced by …show more content…
Today many claim that society creates such monsters to do the unthinkable. Salvatore states that “observations on the lives of serial killers and their experiences clearly shows that nurture takes the dominant role in the creation of a serial killer,” home life plays a key factor in creating such a criminal. If a child were to grow up in bad environmental factors with parents that did not show much support could cause that child to be permanently damaged psychologically. Ted Bundy displays a great example of how a murderer can be created by society. During his early life “Bundy was often teased and made the butt of pranks by bullies in middle school,” this and some other life changing events helped fuel his killing sprees as an adult (Salvatore). Although nurture plays a larger factor in why murderers are created by society, but also nature could be argumentatively played into why some would want to commit such horrific …show more content…
Brograad states in “The Making of a Serial Killer” that when murderers and psychopaths are tested the “Brain scans revealed that psychopathy in criminals was associated with decreased connectivity between the amygdala,” which the amygdala is the center for controlling emotions. This translates into why murderers or psychopaths do not feel negative emotion or guilty when committing such horrific crimes. This can help explain why Dick did not feel as much guilt because he was the mastermind behind the Clutter family murder while Perry did not really want to go through with the murder and felt guilty afterwards about it. Even after the murder of the Clutter family Dick was still willing to kill people as when he was planning to kill the person that offered him a ride and steal his car. Jeffery Dahmer is a great example of how nature can breed such a killer. Jeffery Dahmer, at an early age, would dissect animals just to see what was inside them and how they worked. This behavior cannot be correlated with nurture because he was very young and was not taught such actions. The “innocent interesting behavior” grew as he eventually moved into performing such actions to living humans. These terrifying actions are not correlated with nurture at all as he was not raised to be this way. Dahmer just simply had