Mark Andrew Twitchell's Social Modelling Theory

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Mark Andrew Twitchell, a movie director lured Johnny Brain Altinger into his garage and killed him while imitating Dexter, a television character. Twitchell idolizes Dexter, which is a frictional character from the television show with the same name. Dexter works for the police department in Miami while also being a serial killer. Twitchell made a film which was about “luring a male from a dating internet site and basically killing the male in the garage and chopping his body parts and getting ride of the body”(). Modelling theory also called the social learning theory can be defined as “behaviour which is learned in much the same way and such learning includes the acquisition of norms, values, and patterns of behaviour conceive to crime,