Serial Killer and Mass Murderer

  A serial killer entails a person who assassinates three or more individuals within a period exceeding a month, with resting time between murders. In this case, the murders are separate events that result from a psychological pleasure or thrill (Holmes & Holmes, 2009). Serial killers lack guilt and empathy, becoming egocentric individuals. The killers remain psychologically motivated and organized to commit murder. Serial killers employ a sanity mask to appear charming and ordinary while hiding their actual psychopathic tendencies. For instance, Ted Bundy was an appealing serial killer who methodically planned out murder (Stone, 2019). He would fake injuries to seem harmless to victims. He committed about thirty murders between 1974 and 1978 before his capture. Mass murderers slay many people, usually at the same time, within a single location. For instance, James Holmes attacked and shot at a Colorado movie theater (Allely, 2020). As a result, he injured fifty-eight people and twelve individuals, making him a mass murderer. A psychiatry professor from Columbia argues that mass murderers comprise dissatisfied people with few friends and poor social skills. Generally, mass murderers’ motives are less apparent compared to serial killers. Professor Stone claims that males facilitate most mass murder cases, with most of them lacking clinical psychotic. Instead of remaining a sociopath like serial killers, mass murderers are distrustful persons with acute social and behavioral syndromes. Comparable to serial assassins, mass murderers exhibit psychopathic inclinations, including being uncompassionate, cruel, and manipulative. Nevertheless, most mass assassins are loners or social nonconformists whose actions result from triggers by some overpowering events. Generally, mass murderers and serial killers often demonstrate similar manipulation characteristics and lack of empathy. Factors that distinguish the two involve the sum of murders as well as timing. Mass murderers assassinate people in a single time frame and location. On the other hand, serial killers often murder in different places and over a long period. QUESTION 1 As a result of a sexual fantasy, a man kills a series of women over a period of time to demonstrate his control over the victims. What is most likely the motivating reason for this murder? Terror Loyalty Revenge Power QUESTION 2 The biggest difference between serial murderers and mass murderers is: The number of victims The lapse in time in between killings The motivation for the killings The selection of the victims QUESTION 3 Suppose a criminal profiler is assisting law enforcement in the interrogation of potential suspects. This would most likely be an example of which of the three major goals of criminal profilers? To provide the criminal justice system with a social and psychological assessment of the offender To provide the criminal justice system with a psychological evaluation of the belongings found in the possession of the offender To provide interviewing suggestions and strategies To provide the criminal justice system with a hypothesis about where the potential serial murderer lives QUESTION 4 A man kills seven people at his place of employment and then takes his own life. He would be considered a ___________. mass murderer serial murderer spree murderer suicide murderer QUESTION 5 Typologies of mass and serial murderers are useful in constructing a profile of a murderer. In general, one of the most important characteristics of a crime scene in determining the type of murderer is __________. the time of the murder the victims' characteristics the weapons used in the killing the location of the bodies QUESTION 6 The serial killer Dennis Rader, known as the BTK Strangler, was unique among serial killers because: He killed mostly women. He killed some of the victims in their homes. He killed victims near his place of residence. Some of his killings were separated by long periods of time. QUESTION 7 Inductive reasoning and deductive reasoning are the two major ways criminal profilers construct profiles of potential suspects. With ______________ logic, a criminal profiler conducts a thorough analysis of a crime scene and then based on the analysis, constructs an image of the unknown murderer. inductive deductive inductive and deductive deducible QUESTION 8 Proponents of criminal profiling recognize that profiling is part art, but they also recognize that it is grounded in science. Which of the following statements reveals the science aspect of criminal profiling? Criminal profilers use their intuition to create profiles. Criminal profilers rely on their hunches to create profiles. Criminal profilers rely on empirical research from criminology, sociology, and psychiatry to create profiles. Criminal profilers rely on guesswork to create profiles. QUESTION 9 Advocates of criminal profiling recognize that criminal profiling is appropriate for which of the following types of crimes? Sexual homicide Child molestation Armed robbery Burglary QUESTION 10 Using typologies is at times difficult because not all serial and mass murderers fall neatly into one typology or another. Assume you have to classify the Virginia Tech killer into one particular type of mass murderer. All that you know about the killer is that he had a stockpile of weapons at his disposal. What type of mass murderer is the Virginia Tech killer? The family annihilator The disgruntled employee The disciple The pseudocommando