Through your lifetime you will walk by at least 36 serial killers. This is a shocking fact, showing that we aren’t aware of how dangerous the mixture of genes and experience is. This essay shares the four main factors of the creation of a serial killer. Their psychology, what they think, what they don’t think, and their behavior. Childhood, was it a component of how they turned out? How their environment influenced them, and how their trauma affected them. Serial killers aren’t born, they're created.
The quote “Genetics loads the gun, their personality and psychology aim it, and their experiences pull the trigger,” from Jim Clemente perfectly describes the creation of a killer. The psychology of a killer includes their genes, behavior, actions,
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When a care-giver psychologically abuses their children they create an impulse for their first reaction to an obstacle, violence. How you were taken care of in your childhood shapes and creates the person you are to become. Love, affection, and attention are the most important things to experience in early childhood. A loving parent, a present parent, is crucial to a positive upbringing. Those factors are most definitely missing from a serial killer's childhood and are commonly replaced with neglect and physical, sexual, and psychological abuse. The treatment of someone of such a young age shows them what is wrong and right, but the environment of a serial killer up-bringing shows them the opposite. The chance of committing a crime is heightened if you are/was a victim of child abuse, but not all victims of childhood abuse turn killers. Experiencing abuse is not the only ingredient to making a serial killer but I'd say it is the most important, the abuse shaping how they think and act. Your future is made in your …show more content…
Your environment creates your thoughts and opinions. It builds your thought process, and what your rights and wrongs are. Seeing things for the first time shapes an adolescent mind. Some environmental factors are unstable home life, the death of a parent, divorce, and corporal punishment. Experiencing any of those factors does not mean you are to become a serial killer, but are heavily present in the environment of a serial killer’s life. Growing up in an abusive home can affect people differently than becoming a killer, they could become a CEO, a doctor, anything. It just really depends on what they set out to do in the world, create trauma for others or stop the