Bekzhigitova Z.S.,
Abilgazym A.N., Zhanserikov N.K.,
Kapisheva D.Zh., Tuebayeva K.K.
Karaganda State
University named after E.A. Buketov
Criminological characteristics of
the individual offender in the serial murders
Multiple serial murders began to attract special
attention. The reason for this is the more frequent commission of atrocities in
recent cities and their very dangerous consequences; many victims, including
children, the complexity of the investigation, in some cases.
There are several types of the behavior of the serial
killer within a single episode of the series. The most common is considered as
the six-step model. Of course, taking into account the situation and the
personality of the criminal, it is not always realized in the fullness of its
elements. However, in all cases, as it involves the initial stage, named in the
West – the fantasy phase.
Fantasizing - an indispensable part, a key element of
a serial killer’s behavior system. In other words, long before he comes into
action, i.e. begins to kill, it may be said, there is some sort of a fatal
obsession which transforming into some forms or types of fantastic dreams. In some
cases, these fantasies are very simple, in others - quite intricate. But they
are always present, as inevitable. The fantasy reflects the needs, motives,
anticipates the "benefits" of plotting murder.
Psychologists found that imagination plays a crucial
role in the genesis of a serial killer .Forbidden dreams associated with sex
and violence may emerge from time to time in each. However, morally social
taboos and self-control in the majority of people will never allow these
fantasies embodied in action. Fantasy is different from the serial killer
normal human fantasies that they more and more disgusting as represented by the
component of physical violence and restraining mechanisms in this type of
criminal non-existent.
Unlike normal people, serial killers will never get
rid of his childhood fantasies. On the contrary, they go deeper and deeper into
the world of sinister, nightmarish visions. Although seemingly a serial killer
may look quite ordinary man - a good worker, sociable neighbor, a good citizen,
I thought it insane, bloody fantasy. Because psychopaths are devoid of internal
constraints that hold a normal person from the sale of forbidden desires, their
perverted dreams of power over other people, and of the torture of the blood
pushing them each time a new crime [1; 93]
The second phase is called the phase of stalking
(stalking victim). The nature, duration and other features of the behavior of
the killer at this stage depends on the strength of his desire and the degree
of impatience, personal qualities of both the offender and his chosen victim.
A real case confirms this. Maniac learned home and
working spouse car parking space intended victim. With this in mind, he
determined the motorist spends some time on travel from home to work. Knowing
how much time he has to do what he thought of the killer chose the best time of
the attack on the victim.
Similarly enter the so-called organized killer. Unlike
in disorganized killer phase of stalking them is so compressed that it is
possible to assert almost complete absence of it: a disorganized offender
attacks a random victim of a sudden. In the eyes of a serial killer at this
point it as if there is no family, children, husband, family, friends, hobbies,
and attachments. In this state, the serial killer to the life of the victims'
neither more nor less than to break the paper into pieces.
The third phase - the kidnapping victim. This phase is
also present in all cases of serial killings. Disorganized killer often
resorted to "blitz attack." Organized by the murderer uses various
"tricks" and cunnings to tempt the victim in "convenient"
for a murder zone. Depending on the condition and personality characteristics
of the killer kidnapping can be either very simple or very complex, allowing it
to demonstrate their intelligence and ingenuity.
The fourth phase - the act of killing itself. There
are two options criminals behavior at this stage. Some of them focus their
attention on the actions related to the deprivation of the victim's life, the
other - in the process of physical interaction with the victim, resulting
ultimately to her death, and postmortem handling the body of the victim (the
victim).
In the first case, the act of killing itself is done
quickly. As for the killer is important result - the death of the victim,
rather than accompanying the murder of obtaining sexual gratification, or
intoxication with power over the victim.
Fifth phase - the placement of a corpse. This phase is
also not typical of all serial numbers. Some of them, enjoying the manipulation
of the body, throw it and leave the scene of the crime. Others consider it
necessary to carry out the movement of the corpse. These actions are a
motivational coloration. Someone moves corpses leaves it in a position where it
could soon discover. Others are guided by different motives. For them, the
important thing is the desire to do everything to the body could not be found.
It is engaged in daily activities and from seems quite
normal. Over time, the burden of the crimes becomes so unbearable that he is
able to write a confession and send it to the police or call the local
newspaper and ask for help there. But soon begin to be born again of fantasy in
his head. Uncontrolled needs entirely capture the murderer, and, driven by a
thirst for violence, he again searches the territory where, not knowing their
fate, walking his future victims. And here's another one does not feel the
danger of the stranger is in his way, stepping into the tunnel of death. And
again unfolding ritual murder, leading to the inevitable end. [2;211].
According to our data, if we exclude the stage of
depression, considered the scheme of the criminal behavior of the serial
numbers it is easy to find and in behavior other types of individuals
committing a variety of intentional, pre-prepared the crime. The point,
however, not the case. Importantly, the difference between the studied us
criminal type from other types of persons acting in a similar scheme, lies in
the peculiarities of substantive content of each link of the given chain.
That's about it and not only about it will be discussed in the next paragraph.
To penetrate into the depth of motivational mechanisms of criminal
behavior of serial killers is possible only in the context of their
relationship with the victims.
Victims of this type of crime are always strangers or unfamiliar people.
Every serial killer chooses his victims according to a
certain, not always obvious at first glance, the criterion. For some, murder is
a kind of emotional discharge, release deeply repressed, carefully concealed,
even from himself, feelings. In the mind of the serial connection to the victim
exists, but the nature of this connection is emotionally-mediated. The victim
serves as a trigger, prompting memories of who once upon a time, in childhood
or adolescence, someone humiliated, insulted the future killer, in some way
abused him. Your anger, fear, hatred serial killer brings on the innocent
victim. Killing her, he for some time freed from the painful memories once
endured the humiliation and helplessness. In the eyes of the murderers the
crime committed is an act of retribution for the past, he thereby justifies
their behavior, getting rid of feelings of guilt[3;243].
The vast majority of serial killers are sexual
sadists. Murder and full power over the others at this time give them a sense
of the fullness of life, cause emotional cataclysm, which is akin to an orgasm.
(A phenomenon called "the Dracula syndrome"). Some serial killers
sadistic tendencies coexist with unbridled masochism. (According to the FBI,
about a third of serial killers involved in self-mutilation)[5]. Serial killer
Albert Fish swallowed thirteen metal needles. It took two jolts before Albert
Fish died, the apparatus was short-circuited by the needles that Albert Fish
inserted into his body.
A considerable role in the formation of future
criminal played by his childhood hobbies and activities. Many serial killers
(David Berkowitz, Henry Lee Lucas) in his youth "carried away"
arsons. Ted Bundy, subsequently ruthlessly raped young girls, was a lover of
"hard" pornography. Ed Gein on leisure, reading obituaries in the
local paper. This fascination gradually grew in his visits to cemeteries, and
then the corpses stolen from the grave, it was not enough. And the first victims
of so many killers became our four-legged friends. Almost half of those who
killed the people in childhood were doing it with animals. Often, the trigger
for the killer is some kind of a thing, action and fetish. For such a famous
Anatoly Slivko served fetish clothing pioneer, especially shoes. After the
killings, which Slivko recorded on the camera, it is often burned them. Shoes,
shiny, polished, excited him (as you can see, has sexual connotations and this
aspect). Of course, the phenomenon does not occur out of nowhere: in childhood
Anatoly became the witness of death pioneer teenager, especially remembered for
future serial shoes unfortunate. For some maniacs their own passions, hidden
until then, becomes a surprise. In some cases, the desire to overpower common
sense forcing the murder, but this is often not the case. It happens that the
offender takes place a shift of consciousness, the so-called "offset moral
paradigm."It sounds abstrusely, but in fact it is not difficult. Just a killer,
who committed a crime, believes that it makes for the benefit of someone or
something (Society, of all humanity Jesus Christ, Uncle Sam, and so on and so
forth). An example will serve as Albert Fish, who in his own words, the Lord
appeared and ordered to bring children as a sacrifice. What maniac and did, in
addition to enjoying. It is doubtful that the phenomenon of God took place to
be anywhere other than perverted ogre consciousness. Most likely, Fish was just
abnormal. So we got to the last reason, the most controversial and the most
common at the same time. The reason for this is – craziness (can also call it
insanity, madness, "mental illness" and other terms). It is difficult
to deny the obsession of many serial killers, because the question arises:
"Is a person in their right mind, would make it?" It arises as the
obvious answer, but that's just the commission which determines the degree of
"normality" of the accused, judged by different criteria.
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