Introduction
Over the past decade the topic of serial killers has attracted and increased attention in the field of criminology. Though many people are alert to the seriousness of the situation, there are still a small number of offenders account for so much human destruction and widespread fear.
A serial killer is an individual who murders three or more people over a period of more than a month, usually with a significant break, also known as cooling-off period, between the murders. The break between murders often makes killings not seem connected. In most cases, victims and serial killers do not personally know each other. This implies a fact that a serial killer's motive to kill people is rather psychological than material.
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However in 1611, this noble woman was convicted of a crime for slaughtering 650 girls and young women in Hungary. Purportedly, the girls were not killed outright. They were kept in a dungeon and repeatedly pierced, prodded, pricked, and cut. Báthory is said to have bathed and showered in the girls’ blood in the belief that she could slow down the aging process of herself. In short, she was notorious for inhuman sadist. At the end, she was merely confined to her bedroom until she died in 1614 as she was royalty. After her death, mentioning her name in Hungary was a crime for a hundred …show more content…
However, the article written by Fox and Levin (2011) includes both biological and environmental factors that cause people to become serial killers. For example, the authors have defined most of serial killers as sociopaths who satisfy their personal desires, such as power, profit, revenge, sex, loyalty, and control, by killing. For these killers, murder is a form of expressive, rather than instrumental, violence. They tie up their victims in order to watch them squirm. They also rape, mutilate, sodomize, and degrade their victims in order to feel superior. In short, such offenders were deeply disturbed and