tainment. Comparing a serial killer to a young child, however, is not fair to the child. Young childmay pull the legs off of a grasshopper for entertainment, but serial killer enjoys doing orfantasizing about doing such things to fellow humans. *The classic feature of the serial killer, is an absolute lack of guilt. Participation inactivities which could result in social disapproval will generate guilt and remorse in anormal, healthy individual, but the serial killer does not experience either of thesefeelings to any sufficient degree.Robert Ressler author of Sexual Homicide, gives us three traits that make the serialkiller very dangerous. 1) Their lack of conscience, as we have discusses, is a result of ASPD is the first. 2)Second is a lack of external motivation. Some of the killers motivation consists ofuncontrolled drives, their inability to control impulsive behavior or change their actionsin consideration of others. There is not external motive in a serial murder. The victim iskilled for psychological gain on the part of the murderer. 3)The third trait is the planning and ability to hide their criminality make them virtuallyinvisible. As Ressler explains, serial killers always plan their kills, whether conscienclyor not, and this level of planning is always evident at the crime scene. Serial killers alsohave amazing ability to hide their crimes. As Holmes and DeBurger state, many timespeople in the same house as the killer do not know of the killers activities.ClassificationsThe information in this section comes from the Internet site of Dr. Tom O’Connor anoted criminology specialist from North Carolina’s Wesleyan College. For themale classification Dr. O’Connor uses one of the FBI typologies called theHolmes typology. There are other’s the FBI uses, but I felt this one was the mostclear.Thesis: The classification of serial killers is different for males and females. Themajor difference is style of ...
