Many believe that neither brain abnormalities or childhood abuse compels someone to become a serial killer; but the combination of both factors creates a serial killer. All the evidence combined represents that if one was to suffer from intense abuse as a child and had certain brain abnormalities than that person may be compelled to be a serial killer. A serial killer is not created; a serial killer is not born. A serial killer is a product of a fatal mixture of brain abnormalities and childhood…
Jim Fallon, a neuroscientist and professor at the University of California has been studying the brain for more than 35 years. He did research on the brains of psychopathic killers that lead him to the reason why serial killer are serial killers. He studied the brain of killers like Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, and John Wayne Gacy. Fallon first looks at things theoretically through three factors: genetics, brain damage, and the interaction within an environment and acknowledges how that specific brain would function. He then does the same for a psychopathic killer’s brain.…
To some, the biology of the killers also plays a role in their understanding. Main biological factors include, physical trauma, brain damage, and genetic traits. An example of this idea is in a study done by Adrian Raine, professor of psychology at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He was given a result that strongly implies “that birth complications can lead to mild brain damage that may go unnoticed throughout childhood, yet predispose a boy to violent behavior in adulthood.” (Gerdes 93).…
Adrian Raine who also known as the first person to conduct a brain imaging study on murderers. His research and studies has convinced that while there is a social and environmental element to violent behavior there is always another side of the coin which is biology. Brian imaging studies of violent and psychopathic populations indicates that violent offenders have structural and functional defects to the frontal lobe and the temporal love. In Jeffrey Reiman’s side, he argues that social factors, including poverty, prisons, gun polices, and our modern drug control efforts, generate a type of environment for individuals in which people get to violate the law.…
Another test was conducted later on looking at the brains of psychopaths. These psychopaths were said to have a lack of empathy and also that was said to lead to violent crimes. Studies at King 's College London Institute of Psychiatry also stated that the brains of a…
If the men of Reserve Police Battalion 101 were neither brainwashed nor were they killed for choosing not to shoot Jews, then the question arises: why did they do it? Rather than giving one simple answer, Browning proposes several theories as to why these normal men became killers. All of the people do not fall into the same category for “why they did what they did,” but, rather, a combination of many of the reasons best explains these men’s motives. One of the most compelling of Browning’s arguments is that it took a group to make everything happen in the Holocaust.…
We cant help but wonder what was going on inside this person’s brain. What once seemed a perfect family now becomes a criminal case of hate. Doctors and Scientist has researched many serial killers brains after the act was committed. We question what chemical imbalance causes a person to become inhuman…
The article explained the three main ideas such as how killers develop, how they act, and ways killers kill. Simon describes that killers become who they are because of mental illnesses or because of the environment they grew up in. According to the author, serial killers could have grown up in an abusive home, been isolated as a child, or bullied in school. The killer could also have an illness and psychopathy or sociopathy…
In Volume 3 of my Serial Killers series, The Serial Killers Butchers and Lunatics, you will be introduced to some of the most vicious and disturbed Serial Killers. In Butchers in Lunatics we are going to explore the crimes and lives of men such as Ted Bundy, killer of at least 36 woman and perhaps more than 60. Randy Kraft convicted of 16 counts of murder and rape of young men. Herbert Mullin an almost forgotten serial killer from the 1970's who committed 13 murders. This lunatic believed that his killings would help to prevent earthquakes.…
Everything happens for a reason, even murder. Nonetheless, people believe murderers should not be able to explain why they ended a life, but this could be vital to preventing future homicides. However, most of the time, the motive is not clear. One explanation of this could be a personality disorder known as antisocial personality disorder. Many serial killers have this disorder.…
Life is about choices, whether they are right or wrong, they are made. No matter what oppositions are faced, if someone genuinely wants to achieve something they will stop at nothing to complete their mission. Unfortunately, these goals are not always for the greater good. Violence is a goal that mentally unstable individuals tend to seek, and age is not a factor in this equation. Children are capable of violence ranging from playground brawls at school to brutal crimes, such as shootings.…
Serial killers often take over the media when they first appear. Many people wonder what can lead someone to do such a horrific act to another person. New studies have been taking place to understand if the brain damage and or mental illness has something to do with a person becoming a serial killer. Scientists and psychologists are still doing many experiments and studies to better understand the brain. A traumatic childhood is also being brought into the discussion about how influences serial killers.…
People have continuously asked the question of whether serial killers are born or made. Researchers have done countless studies to provide the world with an answer. Truth be told, despite all of the research, there is still no definite answer (Allely, Minnis and Thompson). Of course, something is mentally wrong with a person if they desire killing other human beings, but the decision to act on this desire is based solely on other influences that caused the person to make that choice. People are obviously more comfortable with blaming the act of serial killing on some mental defect of the brain because it is frightening to think to think we as a society play a part in a person becoming a serial killer.…
One expert in the subject of psychopathy offers a full explanation of its biological basis. It is suggested that amygdala dysfunction is a key neural system that is associated with psychopathy (Blair et al., 1999). Neuroimaging studies have confirmed this. Further, there is evidence the frontal cortex could be dysfunctional (Soderstrom et al., 2000). They found that “psychopathy was associated with an increased ratio between the dopamine metabolite HVA and the serotonin metabolite 5-HIAA.…
These common characteristics demonstrate a relationship between impaired brain usage and crime. The human brain facilitates all human behavior; violence, aggression, ideology, fear, as well as “all human emotional, behavioral, cognitive and social functioning. This three pound mass of 100 billion neurons and 1000 billion glial cells is infinitely complex,” says Dr. Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D., an internationally recognized authority on brain development (Perry). Clara Moskowitz, an active writer on Livescience, who holds a graduate certificate in science writing, signifies that those with antisocial personality disorders “typically have no regard for right and wrong” and “they may often violate the law and the rights of others” (Moskowitz). Since this antisocial personality disorder can characterize many certain criminals at this time, scientists look to what may make an individual behave like that of a felon.…