What are the Core Roots Involved in the Evolvement of Serial Killers? Usman Aftab
A young boy from Chelsea, Massachusetts, frightened and filled with fear over the uncertainty of what events will occur every night. Stripped from the guidance of a father figure, he was repeatedly on the receiving end of a blunt pipe from a cruel parent, who viewed women as no more than a sexual object. However, one incident toppled it all off. Terror stricken, the boy witnessed the traumatising sight of his mother brutally beaten to the floor with all her teeth fallen out, followed by her fingers broken one by one, by his own father. Forward to 33 years later, this same very young boy was now referred to as Albert Henry DeSalvo, 'The Boston …show more content…
"A new study by Adrian Raine, a professor of criminology, psychiatry and psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, found diminished activity in areas of the brain linked with self-awareness, the processing of emotions and sensitivity to violence."(4) "His research found criminals with psychopathic tendencies often had a shrunken ventromedial cortex - the area of the brain that controls decision-making."(4) Due to this abnormality, killers tend to be oblivious from emotions such as anger and remorse during the implementation of the murders, as their capability to control their mental state being deteriorated. Nonetheless, the childhood of prolific serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer proves that this view is not fully credible. From the cradle to his youth, Dahmer was an euphoric child, loved sports and socialising with his friends, traits not of an altered gene. Yet, after experiencing a normal childhood, the allocating to a new surrounding following his father's PhD in chemistry was the significant turning point in his life.(5) With his parent's struggling marriage also becoming more apparent accumulating to his inner battles with insecurity, Dahmer turned to the dissection of road kills and insects to gain the sense of power he lost, as his life slowly shifted around. Significantly, Jeffrey Dahmer's early life is evidential that genetics is not the primary reason for the questioning of the sanity of serial killers, but rather the domestic and communal aspect in playing a vital role in the crafting of
A young boy from Chelsea, Massachusetts, frightened and filled with fear over the uncertainty of what events will occur every night. Stripped from the guidance of a father figure, he was repeatedly on the receiving end of a blunt pipe from a cruel parent, who viewed women as no more than a sexual object. However, one incident toppled it all off. Terror stricken, the boy witnessed the traumatising sight of his mother brutally beaten to the floor with all her teeth fallen out, followed by her fingers broken one by one, by his own father. Forward to 33 years later, this same very young boy was now referred to as Albert Henry DeSalvo, 'The Boston …show more content…
"A new study by Adrian Raine, a professor of criminology, psychiatry and psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, found diminished activity in areas of the brain linked with self-awareness, the processing of emotions and sensitivity to violence."(4) "His research found criminals with psychopathic tendencies often had a shrunken ventromedial cortex - the area of the brain that controls decision-making."(4) Due to this abnormality, killers tend to be oblivious from emotions such as anger and remorse during the implementation of the murders, as their capability to control their mental state being deteriorated. Nonetheless, the childhood of prolific serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer proves that this view is not fully credible. From the cradle to his youth, Dahmer was an euphoric child, loved sports and socialising with his friends, traits not of an altered gene. Yet, after experiencing a normal childhood, the allocating to a new surrounding following his father's PhD in chemistry was the significant turning point in his life.(5) With his parent's struggling marriage also becoming more apparent accumulating to his inner battles with insecurity, Dahmer turned to the dissection of road kills and insects to gain the sense of power he lost, as his life slowly shifted around. Significantly, Jeffrey Dahmer's early life is evidential that genetics is not the primary reason for the questioning of the sanity of serial killers, but rather the domestic and communal aspect in playing a vital role in the crafting of