Serial Killers

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This paper discusses how serial killers have been studied, to no avail, by law enforcement agencies and mental health professionals in the effort to determine what triggers them and with the hope of being able to prevent their attacks on other people. It proposes a research study to analyze the impact of the killer's relationship with his or her mother has on he or she becoming a serial killer and explores whether a negative relationship or bonding experience with the mother can create the backdrop for a serial killer personality.

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"For the purpose of this proposal it is important to understand the difference between a mass murderer and a serial murderer. A mass murderer is one who commits one act of murder that takes the lives of many(Chong, 2002). Examples of mass murders would be Columbine and the two young boys in the Arkansas school who laid in wait at their school and shot students and teachers as they exited the building for a false fire alarm. A serial killer is one who has the desire to kill over and over again and does so. The victims are usually one person at a time, but may be two if they are located together, such as in a parked car. Serial killers may go for periods of time without committing a murder, but the urge eventually becomes to much for them in theory, and the killer seeks relief by murdering again."

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