1.) Define Criminal Psychology. Yes, look it up.
2.) Then I want you to pick a serial killer and tell me what they did and what their home life was like as a child. You may have to dig a bit, but the information is out there. It may be normal or it could be abnormal. Just give me the facts. This is going to set up our lessons for Wed. and Friday!!!!
Thanks for going with the flow. I look forward to seeing you all on Wed. as we start this new unit of student selected learning.
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Criminal psychology is the study of wills, thoughts, intentions, and reactions of criminals. In other words, it studies what they think and their thought processes. Ted Bundy was a good-looking, well educated law student who also was a psychopath. He stalked and murdered dozens of college age women. He was very smart and intelligent and would convince these women that he had a broken arm by wearing a sling. Then he would abduct them. Ted was born on November 24, 1946 in Burlington, Vermont. He was raised by his mother and his father was not present in his life. This is a common characteristic among serial killers. His childhood was anything but normal because shortly after birth his mother left Burlington and went to Philidelphia where her father was, leaving Ted behind for about three months. His grandfather pretty much raised him once he was united with his mother in Philidelphia. His grandfather was reported to have had a voilent temper which could have had a major effect on how he turned out. This is definitely a major factor that could have had detrimental effects on Ted and why he acted so violent in the future and had a horrible feeling to kill innocent people.
Criminal psychology is the study of the mentality, motivation, and social behavior of criminals.
My criminal is Jeffrey Dahmer. Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991, with the majority of the murders occurring between 1987 and 1991. His murders involved rape, dismemberment, necrophilia and cannibalism. As a child Dahmer grew increasingly withdrawn and uncommunicative between the ages of 10 and 15, showing little interest in any hobbies or social interactions. He biked around his neighborhood looking for dead animals, which he dissected at home (or in the woods near his home). In one instance, he went so far as to put a dog's head on a stake.Dahmer began drinking in his teens and was an alcoholic by the time of his high school graduation.
-His Lord and majesty Sir Shaun McCool of Dublin
Criminal psychology is defined as the study of the mentaliypty, motivation, and social behaviors of criminals.
The criminal that I have selected is Dennis Rader. Rader is a male from the city of Kansas. He grew up with four younger brothers and lived with both his mother and father. As a young child Rader was descrided as being an "outwardly normal and unremarkable". He was a me member of the Zion Luthern Church and was formally baptized there. He attended school at Riverview Elementary where he was an "average to mediocre student". Around this time period is when Rader had started to developed fantasies about bondage, control, and torture. It was not until later in his teenage years when he turned this fantasy into having thoughts about tying girls up and "having his way with them". He admitted to killing cats and dogs by the practice of tying them up and hanging them while he was in his early youth. Rader was aware of this fantasy that he had and made sure that he kept it a secret from everyone. Which he was successful of, for the most part.
To five this side of him Rader stayed active in various activities, I.e. boyscouts, and when he got older he joined the U.S. Air Force. He was a quiet polite young man. Tending stay very studious and focused on school. He was descrided as a person "who chose his words carefully before speaking and payed full attention to anyone that was speaking to him". From graduation Rader was successful in landing a job at the local grocery store until he went off to college to persue higher education. In college Rader was a very poor student making low C's and high D's, so he quit school and just went to work. Soon he found himself unemployed, and unhappy with alot of time on his hands. One day Reader just allowed his mind to wonder and it lead him into his deep thought of his old fantasy world that he known in his childhood. This wondering thought grew and soon he was eager to really know how it feels like (for him) to strangle somebody to death.
Reader got married in 1974 and every time he would drop off his wife at work he would wonder about the streets scoping out women. His first killing was on a Hispanic family. Rader seemed to have a long lust for Hispanic women and all he would think about was binding them up and torturing them. He watched her home for awhile learning about the daily activity the house had. One day Rader thought it was time to raid this women's house. He brought his "killing kit" which consisted of a gun, cords, knives and various tools for breaking and entering. When Rader was finally in the house he did not expect the family to still be there, but that did not stop him. He suffocated the women's husband and proceeded on to strangling the women. Rader had a more diffecult time strangling her then he had expected and viewed from the movies that he had watched, but eventually he was successful. Rader then proceeded on the strangling of her youngest son and he died face down. The last person to die was the women's daughter. She was eleven years old and Rader hanged her from a sewer pipe in their basement. The act of hanging the little girl caused Rader to become sexual aroused. He masterbated over the young girls leg and ejectulated on her.
Years went by and Rader was still unstoppable. He soon started to turn his focus to more elderly women who could not give him such a strong struggle. He continued on tying up the women and killing them giving himself a sexual pleasure by doing so. He would strip his victims but never actually rape them. After every killing Rader would go home to his wife and act like nothing was ever done. Soon Rader became known as B.T.K. (bind them, torture them, kill them)
Criminal psychology is the study of the mental processes, motives, and social behavior of a criminal. Gary Ridgway is a serial killer who killed prostitutes because he said they were easy to pick up and would not be as likely to be reported as missing. Ridgway is also known as The Green River Killer. He would kill prostitutes and leave them all together. Criminal psychology is the study of the mental processes, motives, and social behavior of a criminal. Gary Ridgway is a serial killer who killed prostitutes because he said they were easy to pick up and would not be as likely to be reported as missing. Ridgway is also known as The Green River Killer. He would kill prostitutes and leave them all together. Whenever he would go by the places where they were killed, it would give him a high. When Ridgway was younger he was obsessed with prostitutes, had a mental disability shown in his IQ which was 80, and also stabbed a young kid at the age of 16. His mother was a very controlling woman. Ridgway lived two completely different lives and in the end he confessed of killing 71 women.
Criminal psychology is the study specifically on criminals. Criminal psychologist is people who indulge in finding information on what makes people commit criminal acts. These things are people who rob banks, serial killers and etc. Criminal psychologist investigates in why people act a certain way like in court or after a crime has been committed. This type of psychology is often involved with criminal justice.
Ed Gein was the serial killer that I chose to do. Growing up, Gein was raised by an alcoholic father and a mother who was really religious. Gein was attached to his mother and growing up his mom told him to stay away from his sexual desires. Eventually growing up, Gein became shy. Later on in life his father died due to his alcohol problem and his brother died in a fire that was suspected to be by him. Once Gein’s mother passed away, he became intrigued by female anatomy which led him to exhume dead body from graves and even his own mother’s body. He later had the desire to become a woman and believed that to be one he would need to kill people to have fresh bodies so therefore he ended up killing a lot of people. Police then found that there were 15 accounts of women that Gein had killed.
-TAYLOR JONES
Criminal Psychology is the study of the wills, thoughts, intentions, and reactions of all criminals. Also known as studying what makes a criminal think the way he does.
The serial killer I chose to research is named Gerald Stano. This guy admitted to killing 41 women, but only 22 were actually fully proven. At birth, he was given a different name than what he went by before death. His name was changed once he was adopted. Before adoption he lived with his biological mother, by whom he was beat severely. By the time that he was "put up for adoption" the doctors claimed he was "unadoptable" because he acted "almost animalistic." In otherwards, his attitude was like that of an animal. He was soon adopted by caring parents, but due to recent abuse, his attitude never straightened up to that of a "normal" person. It seems that he began killing in the 1960s and continued on until death. He was housed with fellow serial killer Ted Bundy and was executed on March 23th, 1998, after giving away the location to another woman he had killed.
-SARAH COOK
Criminal Psychology or forensic psychology is the branch of psychology that includes studying criminal’s wills, thoughts, emotions, and reactions. ( what makes them commit the crime). Criminal psychologist also profile the victims and criminals depending on the information and situation.
One of the serial killers I found interesting is Belle Sorenson Gunness, most people don’t expect women to be serial killers which is why I picked her to blog about. Ellen lived off of her first husband’s insurance money after he and her two of her kids “mysteriously died”. When she was 42 she moved to Indiana where she married Peter Gunness and died 9 months later, therefore collecting more insurance money. Over a period of years multiple men came into her life and disappeared. She lured them into her home by putting ads in the local newspaper . She drugged them, cut them up and wrap them with oilskin and finally bury them at her farm. Ellen soon became a famous black widow not only killing her husbands but local ranch workers and children she adopted. It is believed she killed a total of 49 people. Her farm got on fire and that is when all the bodies were found. Ellen was born in Norway as one of eight children in her home, some when her was pregnant the father of the child kicked her in the stomach resulting in the lost of her child, and one of her sister’s reports that she was money driven.
Criminal Psychology is the study of the wills, thoughts, intentions and reactions of criminals, all that partakes in the criminal behavior. It is related to the field of criminal anthropology. David Berkowitz also known as the Son of Sam and the.44 killer was a famous serial killer in 1976 and 1977. Berkowitz killed six people in New York City and was famous for his letters to the media and police as well as the reason he committed those murders. He killed these people because he thought they were demon possessed. The demons told him to kill and quench their thirst for blood. Berkowitz was adopted to a middle class family. He held a lot of anger and guilt inside because he had been told that his birth mother died in labor with him. Then his adopted mother died of cancer then his father relocated to Florida, leaving him in the Bronx when he was 18. Later he found out that his real mother was alive and he had a sister. But it was to late because he just preferred to keep to himself in isolation with his delusions.
-Samantha Bruner
riminal psychology is the study of the mentality, motivation, and social behavior of criminals. (And you have no idear how bad I want to do jack the ripper, but alas no one knows who he bloody was.)
Andrei Chikatilo was a Ukrainian serial killer nicknamed Ze Butcher of Rostov. He was found guilty of the murders of 53 women and children between the years of 1978 and 1990. He apparently committed his first murder of a 9 year old girl in his secret house back in the woods and lets just say that he gets off on killing people, without going into the gory details and believe me there were some gory details. His established pattern of victims were young children and runaway vagrants. He would usually try to rape his victims first, but was often "unsuccessful" in that area which led to a murderous fury. Chikatilo was finally caught trying to approach children under police surveillance and was executed by a firing squad.
Oh boy is this one a doosy, Well Andrei Chikatilo was exposed to the crazy at a very young age.He was born in the Ukraine village of Yablochnoye. He was a child during the time of the USSR fighting with Germany which caused a famine so the only logical thing his mother thought to do was tell little Chikatilo that "Yea you know your brother Stephan. I am certain he was kidnapped by the neighbors and eaten!!!!" said she so hysterically that her children took it at face value. This caused in interest in cannibalism at a young age. There are also no documents proving that Stephan Chikatilo existed or died. Other disturbing facts are that his mother would beat him violently when he wet the bed. She also humiliated him on a regular basis. The event that fostered the link between sex and violence was when he was 15 he wrestled and girl to the ground and lets just say he enjoyed it. Thus his traumatic childhood made him into the degenerate psychopath he was in the yesteryears.
http://twistedminds.creativescapism.com
listverse.com/2007/08/22/top-10-evil-serial-killers
Criminal Psychology is the study of the wills, thoughts, intentions, and reactions of all criminals. In short, what makes a ciminal tick and what makes his thoughts become actions.
Richard Ramirez was a serial killer in the fine state of california. His home life was not pleasant at all. He lived in a foster home and at the age of 13 witnessed a murder. His cousin shot huis own wife, the blood splattering on Ramirez's face. This tragic event probably aided him into the sickening live he eventually led. Ramirez was a satan worshiper and an extreme fan of AC/DC. This love for AC/DC earned him the title "Night Stalker" alluding to AC/DC's song "Night Prowler". He was found Guilty of 13 murders, 5 attempted murders and 11 sexual assaults. I guess at this point ramirez is on the highway to hell.... ironic.
- Ben Small
Criminal psychology is the study of a criminal's will, thoughts, intentions and reactions. One major serial killer is John Wayne Gacy. He was convicted of raping and murdering 33 men and boys. He would throw parties where he would dress up as a clown then make a move. Gacy grew up in Chicago and was overwieght and not athletic at all. He had a great relationship with his mother and sisters, but his relationship with his father was hard because he was an alcoholic and very abusive. At the age of 9, Gacy was molested by a family friend. When he was 18, he became involved in politics and fell into a bad crowd. All of these things could have factored into his violent and twisted ways.
Criminal Psychology is the study of the thoughts and intentions of criminals. This category of psychology looks deep into the mental process of criminals. Charles Manson was a serial killer accused of killing atleast 8 people. As a child, his mother couldnt take care of him s he lived with different relatives throughout his childhood. He began stealing and committing small crimes at a very young age. Manson probably felt unwanted by his mother which I feel like may have contributed to what he would do later in his lifetime. After going through two divorces from both marriages, is when he really went off the deep end. He was in and out of prison for stealing and robbery and later began killing numerous people, but did not do so alone. Manson had followers who would help him kill his victims. When the police caught Manson, he was sentenced to death but it happened to be just when they outlawed the death penalty so he was sentenced to life in prison.
Kailey McGee
Criminal psychology is the study of the wills, thoughts, intentions and reactions of criminals, all that partakes in the criminal behavior[1]. It is related to the field of criminal anthropology. Jefferey Dahmer killed between 1978 and 1991. He went after boys of asian and african descent. He was called "Monster." His first killing was when he was 18 years old and he killed a 19 year old boy. He was first caught fonding a 13 year old boy and sentenced to 1 year in a work camp. When he was finally convicted of murder he was convicted of 15 murders. His sentece was 15 life terms. While in jail he expressed remource and wished death upon himself which he got when an inmate beat him to death.
Ben Parker
Criminal Psychology is the study of the wills, thoughts, intentions and reactions of
criminals, all that partakes in the criminal behavior.(wikipedia.com) John Wayne Gacy was a member of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, a precinct captain in the local Democratic party, the owner of a contracting business.Gacy was born into a blue-collar family in 1942 and had two sisters. His father was an abusive alcoholic who verbally and physically abused his children. Gacy deeply loved his father and strived to please him, but failed. He injured his head by falling off a swing when he was 11 years old. He suffered from blackouts until he was 16, and then was diagnosed with a blood clot and the condition was corrected. Gacy lured his victims into handcuffs in the pretext of showing them a pair of trick handcuffs he used in his clown act. He’d then dare the youth to free themselves. Once the boys were handcuffed, he would use either a rope or a board across their throats to kill them while he raped them. He was executed with a lethal injection on May 10, 1994. His last words were, “Kiss my ass.”
-Taylor Atwell
criminal psychology the study of the mentality, motivation, and social behavior of criminals.
Ed Gein (Killings between 1947 and 1957) he is know as the most personable serial killer of all time. He has been potrayed in many movies becuase of his unique personality.Gein was a serial killer who skinned his victims, exhumed corpses, and decorated his home with parts of his victims’ bodies. Human skin was used to make dust bins, furniture, and even clothes. He was born in 1906 to an aholic father and a very religious mother. She down plyed all his sex drives and made him into a shy man. After his mother died he became obsessed with nazi experiments and began robbing graves to have bodys to practice on. When police finally caught up with him, they found a variety of gruesome sights — hanging corpses with their throats and heads missing, bowls made of skulls, pieces of jewelry made of human skin, hanging lips, skin upholstery for chairs, and masks made of facial skin and vulva (including his mother’s) that were painted silver. The most shocking discovery was perhaps his mother’s heart, which was found in a pan on the stove.Police counted 15 women as his victims. Gein told the police that he never had sex with any of the dead women as “they smelled too bad.” His fascination with women was because of the power they held over men. Gein was admitted to Waupan State Hospital and died of cancer at the age of 78.
Morgan Ward
Criminal psychology is the study of the wills, thoughts, intentions and reactions of criminals.
Richard Trenton Chase was a serial killer born in 1950. Richard killed six people during one month in the state of California. When he would kill them he would drink their blood and sometimes eat them. When he did this he thought that he was preventing Nazis from turning into to powder. With his first victim he started with a drive by shooting. After that he began home invasions and with one woman had sex with her after killing her and then bathed in her blood. Chase was arrested soon after a witness saw him and not long after committed suicide in prison. It was said that as a child Richard suffer from a mental disorder and by age ten was showing signs of a triad of sociopath including animal cruelty, fire setting, and bed wetting. He also said he was mistreated by his mother. As he got older he began using drugs and abusing alcohol. He also had much repressed anger though to be aimed at his mother who he believed was trying to poison him. They said he would eventually be diagnosed with schizophrenia.
-Courtney McCollum
http://listverse.com/2007/08/22/top-10-evil-serial-killers/
http://www.athenaresearchgroup.org/richardtrentonchase.htm
Criminal Psychology is the study of the mental processes, motivational patterns, and behavior of criminals. So basically it studies how they act and think as a criminal. They break down and study the process of how the criminal thinks. The serial killer that i looked up was Richard Trenton Chase. He was an American serial killer who killed 6 people in California in a matter of a month. He was known as the Vampire of Sacramento because he would drink his victims’ blood. As a child He was abused by both his parents, but mostly his mom. He would kill and abuse animals especially cats. He had major anger management problems as well as psychological disorders later on in his life. He was a drug addict at the age of 14 years old. Later in life his parents divorced and he eventually ended up in jail.
Cambria Trunzo
Criminal Psychology is the study of the wills, thoughts, intentions and reactions of criminals, all that partakes in the criminal behavior.
Dean Corll was born on December 24, 1939. He was born into a broken family where his parents fought until their marriage ended in divorce in 1946. He was shy and unsocialized. At age 7, he came down with rheumatic fever where the doctors discovered he had heart condition. Later his mother married a travelling salesman and opened a candy shop called "Pecan Prince." Him and his brother worked the candy store day and night while still attending school. Later, after his mother divorced his stepfather, She opened a seperate candy shop in Houson Heights called "Corll Candy Company." Dean was named the vice-president of the company, and had an apartment above the shop. One of the employees complained to his mother that Dean had made sexual advances towards him, but she just fired him. When Dean was drafted into the army, he reportedly experienced his first homosexual encounters and realized he was gay.
In 1965, shortly after Corll completed his military service, the Corll Candy Company relocated to Twenty-seventh Street, directly across the street from Helms Elementary School. Corll was known to give free candy to local children, in particular teenaged boys: as a result of this behavior, he earned himself the nicknames the Candy Man and the Pied Piper. The company also employed a small workforce, and he was seen to behave flirtatiously towards several teenage male employees. Corll is known to have installed a pool table at the rear of the candy factory where employees and local youths would congregate. In 1967, he befriended 12-year-old David Brooks, then a sixth grade student and one of the many children to whom he gave free candy. Upon Corll's urging, a sexual relationship gradually developed between the two: Corll paid Brooks to allow him to perform fellatio on the youth and the same year, he moved back to Houston and, by his own later admission, began regarding Corll's apartment as his second home.
Between 1970 and 1973, Corll is known to have killed a minimum of 28 victims. All of his victims were males aged thirteen to twenty, the majority of whom were in their mid teens. Most victims were abducted from Houston Heights, which was then a low-income neighborhood northwest of downtown Houston. With most abductions, he was assisted by one or both of his teenaged accomplices, Elmer Wayne Henley and David Owen Brooks. Several victims were friends of one or the other of his accomplices, and two other victims, Billy Baulch and Malley Winkle, were former employees of the Corll Candy Company.
Corll's victims were typically lured into one of two vehicles he owned with an offer of a party or a lift and driven to his house. There, they were either plied with alcohol or drugs until they passed out, tricked into putting on handcuffs, or simply grabbed by force. They then were stripped naked and tied to either Corll's bed or, usually, a plywood torture board, which was regularly hung on a wall. Once manacled, the victims would be sexually assaulted, beaten, tortured and—sometimes after several days—killed by strangulation or shooting with a .22-caliber pistol. Their bodies then were tied in plastic sheeting and buried in any one of four places: a rented boat shed; a beach on the Bolivar Peninsula; a woodland near Lake Sam Rayburn (where his family owned a lakeside log cabin); and a beach in Jefferson County. In several instances, Corll forced his victims to phone or write to their parents with explanations for their absences in an effort to allay the parents' fears for their sons' safety. Corll is also known to have retained keepsakes—usually keys—from his victims.
Megan Eastergard
Criminal pyschology is the study of the mentality and behavior of criminals and what may be the cause of their acting this way.
jeffrey Dahmer is a good example of a criminal/murderer who would make a good case to study for criminal pyschology.
He was normal up untill the age of about six, then after his hernia surgery he started to be a recluse and a loner developing a very strange personality. It increased as he got older. His parents divorced, which of course made things harder. He developed a drinking problem and later engaged in homosexuality. As he got older he developed more of mental instabilities and that lead to his mass murders. His parents, father especially takes some of the blame for his sons behavior and wishes things would have been different.
~Brooke Boatwright
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