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Serial Killer and Mass Murderer

A serial killer entails a person who assassinates three or more individuals within a period exceeding a month, with resting time between murders. In this case, the murders are separate events that result from a psychological pleasure or thrill (Holmes & Holmes, 2009). Serial killers lack guilt and empathy, becoming egocentric individuals. The killers remain psychologically motivated and organized to commit murder. Serial killers employ a sanity mask to appear charming and ordinary while hiding their actual psychopathic tendencies. For instance, Ted Bundy was an appealing serial killer who methodically planned out murder (Stone, 2019). He would fake injuries to seem harmless to victims. He committed about thirty murders between 1974 and 1978 before his capture.

Mass murderers slay many people, usually at the same time, within a single location. For instance, James Holmes attacked and shot at a Colorado movie theater (Allely, 2020). As a result, he injured fifty-eight people and twelve individuals, making him a mass murderer. A psychiatry professor from Columbia argues that mass murderers comprise dissatisfied people with few friends and poor social skills. Generally, mass murderers’ motives are less apparent compared to serial killers. Professor Stone claims that males facilitate most mass murder cases, with most of them lacking clinical psychotic. Instead of remaining a sociopath like serial killers, mass murderers are distrustful persons with acute social and behavioral syndromes. Comparable to serial assassins, mass murderers exhibit psychopathic inclinations, including being uncompassionate, cruel, and manipulative. Nevertheless, most mass assassins are loners or social nonconformists whose actions result from triggers by some overpowering events.

Generally, mass murderers and serial killers often demonstrate similar manipulation characteristics and lack of empathy. Factors that distinguish the two involve the sum of murders as well as timing. Mass murderers assassinate people in a single time frame and location. On the other hand, serial killers often murder in different places and over a long period.

References

Allely, C. S. (2020). The contributory role of psychopathology and inhibitory control in the case of mass shooter James Holmes. Aggression and violent behavior, 51, 101382.

Holmes, R. M., & Holmes, S. T. (2009). Profiling violent crimes: An investigative tool (4th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.

Stone, M. H. (2019). The place of psychopathy along the spectrum of negative personality types. In Psychoanalysts, psychologists and psychiatrists discuss psychopathy and human evil (pp. 82-105). Routledge.

PROFESSOR REPLY QUESTION

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In Chapter 1 of your textbook the author lists several crimes that are most suitable for the profiling. What are some of these crimes?