A serial killer is an individual who commits a series of murders often without a motive. Serial killers are someone who commits over three murders in more than a one month period with a “cooling down” period. The “cooling down” period consist from weeks to months, or even years, but it normally varies in each serial killer. During the “cooling down” period the serial killer will go back to his or her normal everyday life. The killer when kill again when his or her urges become too strong for him or her to handle. Social structure theory suggest that poor people commits more criminal acts because they are straining to fill their financial needs or social activities. Social structure can explain why a person becomes a serial killer through
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Family is the main influence on an individual to follow through as a serial killer. Social process theory suggest that an individual who is brought up in a hostile environment are more prone to becoming a serial killer. For an example, when a child’s parents that are usually fighting, the child will learn and become familiarized to the behavior and this will devote the child to become a serial killer in the future. Children that also feel rejected or neglected by their family members tend to become hostile and aggressive and this social process is entirely for serial …show more content…
These techniques can include denial of responsibility, denial of injury. The individual could use words such as “they had it coming”. Society has many expectations of how we should act. We call this the norms. We value these norms and they become our beliefs. For an example, Josef Fritzl had held his daughter captive in a basement for over twenty years as a sex slave. Fritzl fathered seven of her children, ages ranging from five to nineteen with none seeing the light of day. Fritzl was only discovered due to one of the children becoming sick and they reached out medical attention for the child. Fritzl denied the injury because he could have let the child
Family is the main influence on an individual to follow through as a serial killer. Social process theory suggest that an individual who is brought up in a hostile environment are more prone to becoming a serial killer. For an example, when a child’s parents that are usually fighting, the child will learn and become familiarized to the behavior and this will devote the child to become a serial killer in the future. Children that also feel rejected or neglected by their family members tend to become hostile and aggressive and this social process is entirely for serial …show more content…
These techniques can include denial of responsibility, denial of injury. The individual could use words such as “they had it coming”. Society has many expectations of how we should act. We call this the norms. We value these norms and they become our beliefs. For an example, Josef Fritzl had held his daughter captive in a basement for over twenty years as a sex slave. Fritzl fathered seven of her children, ages ranging from five to nineteen with none seeing the light of day. Fritzl was only discovered due to one of the children becoming sick and they reached out medical attention for the child. Fritzl denied the injury because he could have let the child