tailieunhanh - Ebook Neuropsychology of criminal behavior: Part 2

Part 2 book “Neuropsychology of criminal behavior” has contents: Mass murderers, cannibalism, cannibalism, mexican hitmen, paramilitarism in colombia, conclusions. Invite to reference. | 6 Mass Murderers Introduction Unlike a serial killer (who kills people one by one, over months or years), a mass murderer appears in an unexpected way, killing as many people as he or she can, and it is not unusual for him or her to finish his or her spree by committing suicide. None of this is strange in the United States, where mass murders have been committed since at least the mid-twentieth century. In 1949, Howard Unruh triggered a massacre that took, in addition to his own life, the lives of 13 people in Camden County, New Jersey (Douglas, Burgess, & Ressler, 1995). Fifty year later, two students, Eric Harris (18 years old) and Dylan Klebold (17 years old), would give the concept of mass murder a new dimension when, on April 20, 1999, they arrived at their school (Columbine High School) heavily armed, killing 13 people, wounding 24 others, and finishing the act with their suicides (Brown & Rob, 2002). These massacres invariably arouse great debate in the United States. Psychologists, anthropologists, and sociologists try to get to the bottom of the problem by finding out what these murderers thought. Was the reason their lack of moral values? Were they bored? Was it because weapons can be bought in supermarkets? Did they experience childhood psychological trauma? Determining the reasons that make a person commit a mass murder is an extremely complicated task, mainly because these murderers carry inside themselves almost unique combinations of motives and psychological traumas that drive them to the violent act. For American criminologists Ronald and Stephen Holmes (Holmes & Holmes, 2000, 2008), the mass murderer profile involves a significant family component (children of dysfunctional couples, child abuse, and drug and alcohol abuse), in conjunction with psychological alterations (suicidal tendencies, and poor frustration and anger management) and conditions (work abuse, discrimination) that generate an explosive charge of resentment and hate in .