Prof. A

Introduction

This chapter presents findings that were derived from the survey of determining factors that are responsible for serial killing among adolescents. There were 10 participants out of the targeted 15 respondents, where 70% of the participants had responded to the questions provided with the remaining percentage either deliberately omitting or failed to answer some of the questions. The chapter has provided background information of the participants by evaluating their demographics details, description of information derived from evaluation of each variable through descriptive statistics, and at the end is the summary. Tables and figures have been used to present the information in a more readable form.

Demographical Background of Respondents

The survey had targeted a population of 15 participants from the two institutions but only 10 respondents responded to the call of participating in the survey. Of the 10 participants, 6 of them were from the Palm Beach Youth Academy while the other 4 responded from the police station. The survey however involved only male participant to avoid unnecessary bias from gender element. The figure below shows the response rate with regard to the target and actual population. Comment by Debbie Jennings: Just FYI – remove this word as it renders the sentences to the passive form. Just say that the survey targeted a …… Comment by Debbie Jennings: Comma here Comment by Debbie Jennings: Comma here

Figure 1: Response Rate

Age and Race

Figure 2: Age Distribution

Out of the 10 respondents, 5 males were in the age category of between 14 to18 years which stood at 50%, 3 males between 10 to 14 years of age a 30% of the population and the youngest group of those below the age of 10 years who represented a 20%. This indicated that the survey only focused on adolescent age. However, the question of race among the respondents was not necessary but from my observations is that the participants were evenly distributed cutting across from the whites, Black Americans, Asians and Hispanic. Comment by Debbie Jennings: Never use the first person in your papers – especially not in your Thesis

Method of Killing Comment by Debbie Jennings: Do not italicize the headings they are always bold and regular type

Following a report by Aamodt on Serial Killer Statistics (2016) that highlighted some of the killing methods used by serial killers, I purposed to know which methods that my respondents used to kill their victims. Out of the survey respondents, 40% of the respondents killed their victims shooting while a 30% recorded that they stabbed their targets to death. The other means that were recorded involved strangulating, food poising and beating to death, with each representing a 10%. Comment by Debbie Jennings: Repeated error

Biological and social influence to Serial Killing Comment by Debbie Jennings: Ditto. Also, capitliaze each main word

The purpose of the study was to investigate whether serial killing among male adolescents was influenced by biological or social factors. Out of the 10 respondents, 40% strongly agreed that their behavior was caused by the biological variable, 30% were not sure if biological effects were the reason for their behavior while the remaining 30% of the respondents did not approve of it. On the other hand, 60% of the participants agreed that the society was the greatest contributor. It was observed that a 20% of the respondents who had agreed that biology was responsible for their serial killing pointed out that the society had played a role too. The last group agreed that the two variables had an influence to their behavior.

Survey Findings: Descriptive Analysis

Biological Motivators Comment by Debbie Jennings: Repeated error

Out of the 4 respondents that associated serial killing behavior with biological factors, 2 of them reported that they were diagnosed with personality disorder, 1 of them recorded that he had experienced brain damage while the last one agreed that serial killing is inherited from his parents. The responses were recorded as follows:

Social Motivators

Out of the 6 respondents, 3 participants recorded cases of child abuse such as battery and harassment, 2 of them reported that they were sexually abused while only 1 of them who agreed that he was a sexual sadist.

Out of the actual population, 60% reported that they exhibited antisocial behavior in their childhood, 40% used to burn up little things from their houses, 70% agreed that they were torturing animals, while a 50% of the total population had a poor relationship from their families who were their first victims, and a 30% of the participants were involved in voyeurism, explaining why they believed that sexual sadism influenced their psychopathic behavior. This helped to answer the objective question of knowing if there were signs that could detected during their development.

Out of the respondents, 8 of them reported that self-gravitation was the motive behind their killings, only a few 30% of the total respondents’ related economical gains with serial killing, while 60% and 40% of the respondents recorded that anger and attention were motivators of serial killing respectively. However, there was no attempt on cult and phantasms motivators.

Conclusion

In summary, the chapter has reported a number statistics analysis showing the findings gathered from the respondents, where 40% of the participants related biological factors to be the cause of their serial killing while a 60% recorded that the society was responsible for serial killing. The study additionally found out that personality disorder and sexual abuse were the greatest motivators of serial killing among the adolescents. Comment by Debbie Jennings: remove

Reference

Aamodt, M. G. (2013, October 19). Serial killer statistics. Retrieved (2016, September 4) from

http://maamodt.asp.radford.edu/serial killer information center/project

description.htm

No.Of Respondents

1oo%

66.6%

Age

6-10 Yrs 10-14 Yrs 14-18 Yrs 2 3 5