syngre.blogg.se - 7 psychological states of serial killers

Sexually-based is a motivation driven by the sexual needs or desires of the offender.

The condition may include auditory and/or visual hallucinations and paranoid, grandiose or bizarre delusions.

Psychosis is a rare situation in which the offender is suffering from a severe mental illness and is killing specifically because of that illness.

Power/thrill is a motivation in which the offender feels empowered and/or exhilarated when he kills his victims.

Examples of these include terrorist groups or an individual(s) who attacks a specific racial, gender or ethnic group out of sheer hatred for the group.

Ideology is a motivation to commit murder in order to further the goals and ideas of a specific individual or group.

A few examples of these types of crimes are comfort/gain killings, robbery-homicide or multiple killings involving insurance or welfare fraud.

Financial gain is a motivation in which the offender benefits monetarily from killing that is not drug, gang or organized crime-related.

For example, murder may be perpetrated by a drug gang in order to eliminate its competition.

Criminal enterprise is a motivation in which the offender benefits in status or monetary reward by committing murder that is drug, gang or organized crime-related.

Anger is a powerful motivation in which the offender displays rage or hostility toward either a certain subgroup of the population such as the homeless or society as a whole.

As concisely reported by the FBI in 2005, they are listed below.

The categories are not intended to be a complete measure of serial offenders, nor are they intended to comprise a theory of their motivation.