...Case Study of Jeffrey Dahmer Jeffrey Dahmer is arguably the most notorious serial killer-cannibal in history. Hence, this paper will discuss the psychological history on Dahmer’s criminal behaviors and acts of why he did what he did. Also, this article will discuss the psychological, behavioral, environmental, and the cognitive factors of this case study. As well as, this paper will discuss the psychoanalytic/psychodynamic view, the behaviorist/social learning theory, and the cognitive/social cognitive theory, to the humanist and interactionist theories, of Dahmer’s criminality. Thus, describing the typology of the crime, of what personality defects did the offender have, how it played a role in his behavior, and which laws were protecting...
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...Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, a notorious serial killer and sex offender in the years of 1978-1991 held an unholy secret in his apartment in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He killed seventeen men and violated most of them: rape, dismemberment, necrophilia, and cannibalism were involved in these murders. He was only charged with fifteen counts of murder and was sentenced to nine hundred and fifty-seven years in prison. Dahmer was a sick twisted individual he grew up with a pretty normal childhood until an unfortunate surgery that changed his personality, his preteen years were the making of a serial killer, his drinking problem ruined his college and career life, and struggling with his sexual desires mainly with his victims may have been his downfall into...
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...------------------------------------------------- Jeffrey Dahmer ------------------------------------------------- AJ 63-Criminal Investigations ------------------------------------------------- Shane Brashear 25 OCT 13 The killing of three or more people, by the same individual, is considered serial killings. The murders are often committed with in days, weeks, months, or years apart. Most serial killers are afraid of being caught, and they take precautions in order to continue killing . Serial killers tend to murder strangers rather than people they know. Their victims normally have something in common such as age, race, educational background, gender, occupation, or facial features. Serial killers normally have an image of the perfect victim, but will sometimes settle for anyone, if he cannot find his preference. Victims who are from broken homes, runaways, prostitutes, and they who suffer from drug and alcohol abuse normally fall prey to serial killers. Serial murders sometimes share common characteristic; however, their approach to killing might differ. According to Fahui Wang, some serial killers are organized and others are disorganized. Some serial killers are very organized, and they plan their attacks with care; they tend to be very selective in choosing their victims, and oftentimes, follow the same patterns when committing a crime. Their crimes are planned in detail, and they involve various ways in which the murders will occur. Some serial killers normally know what...
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...According to Quotes About Victims (n.d.), “It would be easy to become a victim of our circumstances and continue feeling sad, scared or angry; or instead, we could choose to deal with injustice humanely and break the chains of negative thoughts and energies, and not let ourselves sink into it” (Quotes About Victims, n.d.). In this paper I am going to be talking about a man named Jeffrey Dahmer and if there were aspects of his victims’ lives that made them more susceptible to being his victims. Jeffrey Dahmer According to Jeffrey Dahmer: Serial Killer and Sex Offender (n.d.), Jeffrey Dahmer was born in Wisconsin in May of 1960. Dahmer’s childhood was defined as normal but that changed when he reached to age of fifteen. At this age he became...
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...! ! ! ! ! General Purpose: To inform ! ! Serial Killers ! Andrea Mendoza ! Specific Purpose: To inform people the importance of knowing why some people become serial killers and how to spot characteristics of serial killers.! ! Central Idea: Most serial killers will not end what they have started because of the pleasure they feel when committing this horrible crimes.! ! Introduction ! I. Do you ever wonder who your neighbors or who you are next to in the streets on a day to day basis? Have you ever thought that some of this people grew up with horrible life stories.! ! II. I think a lot of you will learn so much from what I will inform you, because we all have loved ones who we want to protect and care for.! ! III. I myself have found to be scared to walk around at night alone after watching the news and knowing what is going on out in the streets.! ! Body: ! ! I. What is a serial killer?! ! A. a serial killer is a person who commits multiple murders in a period of time and cannot seem to stop. ! B. On most scenarios serial killers come from a very disturbed childhood, being abused them selves by people who they believed “loved” them.! C. Some serial killers can be anti-social and avoid crowds or becoming friendly with people, because they feel no emotions nor remorse. ! D. In most cases I've seen or heard of, the typical serial killer will leave some type of “signature” on the victim or where the crime was committed...
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...Forensic Chemistry Jeffrey Dahmer: The Milwaukee Monster It was May 21st, 1960 when Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Lionel Dahmer and Joyce Flint. Dahmer was raised there as an only child. He was a child that was full of life, interested in everything you would assume your average boy to be interested in. He loved to wrestle with his father and help him around the house all the time. Outgoing and curious, Dahmer was everything any set of new parents could ask for and more. One thing interesting was his early fascination for animals. He loved to help his dad clear the animal bones from under the house where animals had died. As the bones were dropped in to a bucket, Dahmer was overwhelmed with joy at the sounds they made. As he grew older, the fascination of the sound of bones became a fascination with turning animals in to just bone - he began to kill them. In 1968, Dahmer’s family moved to Akron, Ohio to a small town call Bath in the Bath Township. That same year, he became a brother to David Dahmer. It seems as though from that point on things started going downhill for Dahmer. As he neared junior high, Dahmer became much more introverted. Although he was always the class clown throughout both junior high and high school, students still knew something seemed to be off with Jeffrey Dahmer. As Dahmer grew from the boy he was in to the teenager he was becoming, he was going through a hard time in his life. His parents marriage had been seriously...
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...Behind the Mask of a Serial Killer ENG/147 AAIA1EJ2I4 December 1, 2014 Kevin Phillips Behind the Mask of a Serial Killer Throughout hundreds of years, serial killers have reigned terror on many people. Some of the most notorious serial killers include Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Ted Bundy. Many people have pondered and wondered what motivated serial killers to kill multiple people. Many psychologists believe that most serial killers’ problems are more of a form of mental disorder, as other people believe that the problems stemmed from their environment. While there is no definitive test for serial killers, there are some important characteristics that can help law enforcement profile and catch these serial killers. Early Signs Law enforcement should examine the early childhood of possible serial killers by observing children with troubled fantasies. According to Feud he wrote, “The grandiose infantile narcissistic ego is characterized by states of magical or omnipotent thinking (Freud 1914)”. This means the fantasies are an illusion and it becomes powerful enough to fulfill these fantasies that are thriving in the mind. Therefore by monitoring early children’s fantasies then, they could be treated to dissolve and maintain these early warning signs of potentially becoming a serial killer in the future. Psychological abuse has also played a major role into the background of a serial killer. Seventy-two percent...
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...People say many different things create serial killers, some believe society breaks them down, but others argue that mental illness is the only reason that these monsters turn to cruelty and insanity. Psychologists, criminologists, and scientists searched to answer the question of why serial killers commit these mass killings and how they became such violent humans. What is left are two ideas, are serial killers born with predetermined genes/mental illness that plays an integral part in creating their homicidal tendencies or do psycho killers become murderous through their surroundings and society as children? It is important to understand how killers become such vicious individuals in order to help stop the influences that cause these monster....
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...Serial killers have captivated the minds of people for years. Everyone wants to know why Dahmer or Bundy claimed the lives of innocent people in the heinous crimes that they committed. Serial killers are complex creatures and a lot of things can contribute to why they come to kill people. Most people believe that all serial killers are dysfunctional, lonely people who keep to themselves and have little to no social interaction. However, a majority of killers appear to be your average citizen and are seemingly normal. Another common belief about serial killers is that they just travel everywhere, killing as many people as they can and that they cannot stop. In reality, not all, but most killers have a specific geographic location and a specific...
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...2001). Robert Ressler interviewed a 6ft 9in 300 pound man in prison who killed 11 people including his grandparents, mother, and college female students by psychologically torturing each person then decapitating them (Films Media Group, 2001). The motivation for the killings were clearly unknown other than the fact that he clearly enjoyed torturing and ripping heads off his victims. Mr. Robert Ressler’s profiling skills was put to the test when conducting an interview with the serial killer. The time of the interview proved not to be at Ressler's favor because it happened to be at a time when the guards were serving other prisoners food, and were not available at his time of need. The serial killer realized that the guard was not there to let Ressler out after the interview and decides to psychologically torture him by telling him “how easy it would be for him to rip his head off his body” (Films Media Group, 2001). Ressler spent 45 minutes or so using his negotiating skills to negotiate with the serial killer to save his own life, until the guard came and let him out. The stress Ressler must have been under that day will forever haunt him (Films Media Group, 2001). Transfer of learning is learning rapidly while developing a profound understanding of the task if...
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...Jeffery Dahmer Hannah Bialas CRJ 308: Psychology of Criminal Behavior Instructor: David Ojo October 6, 2014 Introduction Everyone knows that there are many killers out there in the world but some were made famous because of what they did. Jeffery Dahmer is a famous case that really has an interesting story behind it. Behind every killer there is something that made them that way which could include many aspects of one’s life. The Jeffery Dahmer case has many aspects as well as different theories as to what made him the way he was and made him to the things he did. Childhood History Jeffery Dahmer was first born and go little attention from his parents but then another child came along and he did not like getting less attention than he already did. After he was no longer the only child that is when the problems started. “He was born into a loving household and was a happy child till he was six, when his brother was born and he received some minor surgery then he became increasingly insular and lacking in self-confidence” (The Dominion Post, 2007). Soon after the family ended up in Ohio which made Jeffery Dahmer’s life darker because he became less social or more insecure and ended up with no friends because of these issues. He had a hard time making friends because he was into death, taxidermy, and flesh which can make it very difficult to make any type of friends. According to Dahmer he had thoughts of murder and necrophilia around the age 14 which was after his parent’s...
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...A Jeffrey Dahmer Story Tyler Jones Understanding Criminal Minds December 2, 2014 Jeffrey Dahmer Fantasies can be strengthened by great amount of sex drive that assists in unusual behaviors; sexual murders are based on fantasies. The purposes of the fantasies are to take control of the victims; the killer wants the control because he/she has sought it since childhood. It is known that very few serial killers have healthy relation with their parents. “Jeffrey Dahmer was born on May 21,1960, in Milwaukee; his parents were Lionel and Joyce Dahmer. Joyce had problems during her pregnancy and started taking drugs to treat her sickness” (Fischoff, 1996). After Jeffrey was born he had difficulties with his legs and needed help with his legs for four months. Despite this problem he seemed to grow up as a healthy beautiful child, but at one point his mother started to refuse to breast-feed him. Since she could not handle breast-feeding, this increased her consumption of antidepressant and psychotropic drugs. “After a few years the couple moved six times in their first years of marriage. In 1962, the family moved to Iowa. Lionel had been accepted to a doctoral program in chemistry; in this period Jeffrey got sick very often and required several injections to treat the infections” (Fischoff, 1996). “When he started preschool his interest for insects and animals was starting to take form, in fact, he helped his father in nursing a owl they found. When Jeffrey was...
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...Reflection: Jeffrey Dahmer seemed like an average man. Growing up he was a little shy but relatively normal. He had a difficult upbringing because his parents was very tough on him, causing him to be socially awkward. His escalation of deviance could be recognized at young young age when he began to develop a sexual fascination with dead animals. During his time in high school he began to have thoughts of killing another person. To deal with his problems he developed a drinking problem while still in high school. Just after his graduation in 1978 he murdered his first victim. When disposing of the bodies he was pulled over by the police and question however he was able to talk his way out of it. His killing spree would continue until his arrest...
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...A Reasonably Sane Killer Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was born may 21st 1960, in West Allis, Wisconsin. He was the son of Joyce Annette and Lionel Herbert Dahmer, and an older brother to David Dahmer. By all accounts he was born into a seemingly normal family, in a middle class white neighborhood. He attended and completed Revere High School, and then attended Ohio State University for a short period of time, but was asked to leave due to his drinking habits. Dahmer underwent Hernia surgery when he was eight years old, and it is said to have changed his personality from that point on. Growing up, Dahmer realized at a young age his fascination with dead creatures. He would patrol his neighborhood for dead animals and then bring them back to his home or the woods and dissect them. Although Dahmer did not torture or kill animals, he had pets of his own at home; he was interested in seeing what was inside of them. At the age of thirteen, Dahmer also had the realization that he was homosexual, causing him major confusion, and sexual frustration. After the age of thirteen he began to distance himself from reality more and more. He suffered from being the victim of bullying all through his school years, due to his strange uncommunicative personality. He was also suffering from loneliness and rejection from his peers and family. Dahmer severely lacked social skills in his teenage and childhood years. At this point in his life he was starting to have very impulsive fantasies and...
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...Mia Alonzo Mr. Oliverez English 2 8 May 2016 Jeffrey Dahmer There are plenty of serial killers in American history. Devastating as it may be, they’re still a part of it. There have been hundreds of serial killers documented and identified over the decades in America (statistics), but there have been a handful that have stood out from the rest. One of them was a man named Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer. Given the circumstances of his murders, his psychological profile, or just the initial public shock of it all, it all stems from where he started- his childhood. He stood out from the rest of America’s 20th century serial killers, and for a good reason. Jeffrey Dahmer was known as as The Milwaukee Cannibal and The Milwaukee Killer. These nicknames, given by the media provided a hook, and ensured their story be read or heard. He he was convicted of rape, murder, taking the lives 17 men and boys throughout a span of 13 years, from 1978 to 1991 (CBS). Jeffrey Dahmer’s killings involved necrophilia, cannibalism, the preservation of body parts, and lobotomy (crime museum). Lobotomy was a psychosurgery procedure that involved inserting a long metal “pick” of sorts and inserting it through either the nose, or through the gap above the eye to the to the frontal lobe of the brain. It was used to treat, ironically, severe psychological disorders in the 1940’s and 50’s (How Stuff Works). He was obviously not performing one for medical reasons, but instead just to satisfy his sexual desires...
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