Of Monsters and Men: Exploring Serial Murderers’ Discourses of Neutralization

Mild and severe criminals verbally explain their behavior, neutralize responsibility, and build identity in society using neutral and technical approaches. Since continuous killers often seem to be killed at the same time in "normal", the neutralization can provide a process by which continuous murderers "drift" between traditional social attachment and murder. These neutralizations, like other criminals, may also play a role in shameful management and help to maintain their positive performance. To explore these propositions, the analysis of stories and case histories analyzes whether neutrality is provided, and if so, determines the theory as a general (or universal) criminal theory In order to examine the explanation of the serial killer.

In "Men and Monsters", Richard Titchcott is testing a major problem of American enchantment and serial murder, using concrete examples of various media images of serial killer Geoffrey Damer. Tithecott sees construction of a continuous killer in narrative performance as part of an increase in cultural tendency that refuses to criticize the intellectual value of his own cultural value which contributes to violence. As evidence, he pointed out that culture often uses words such as "motivated" to build continuous killings. By refusing to accept a serious discussion about motivation, assuming crime is essentially unknown, through evolution at least some of the evils of metaphysics make continuous killers away from comfortable everyday world The mythical field that helps putting it in one of his places was sacred

Continuous killings are defined by three key elements: quantity, time, and motivation. Most murderers have only one victim; by definition, a serial killer has multiple victims. The minimum number of victims listed in the various definitions of recent serial murder cases ranged from 2 to 10 and the modal value was 3. The time factor of the serial murder case was designed to distinguish continuous killers from mass killers and carnival killers. . Mass killers have multiple victims in one episode and Carnival Killer has multiple victims in several independent but related cases, but in both cases the emotional between murders There is no confusion. On the contrary, in a continuous murder case there is cooling for days, weeks, months or years. Finally, in order to distinguish continuous killers from professional strikers, political terrorists and military combatants, most of the serial killings omit the definition of killing people for financial, political or military benefits did.