Test a subject for mental illness Assesses a perpetrator s sanity Makes sure they are not faking mental illness Profiles criminals and victims Digging into the psyche Personality Inventories ID: 692366
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Serial KillersSlide2
The Forensic Psychiatrist
Test a subject for
mental illness
Assesses a
perpetrator
’s sanity
Makes sure they are not
faking
mental illness
Profiles
criminals and victimsSlide3
Digging into the psyche
Personality Inventories
Check to see what type of
personality
the criminal hasSlide4
Digging into the psyche
Projective
Testing
Evaluate a person’s personality and thought processes without a
formal testSlide5Slide6
Digging into the psyche
Intellectual
/Cognitive Tests
See how
intelligent
the person is and how they thinkSlide7
Recognizing Liars
Look for
nervousness
Read
Body Language
Neuro
-Linguistic Programming (
eye movements
)Slide8
Determining Competence
Things that affect competence:
Mental
Retardation
Drug or alcohol
addiction
Strokes, tumors, or infections
Mental
disordersSlide9
Determining Sanity
You can be found not guilty by
reason of insanity
if you didn’t know at the time of the crime that your actions were
illegal
or you couldn’t
change your behaviorSlide10
Types of Serial Murderers
Mass
Murderers:
Kill more than
four
people in
one
place at
one
timeSlide11
Types of Serial Murderers
Spree
Killer:
Kill more than one person at two or more locations that are linked by motive with
no cooling-off periodSlide12
Serial KillersSlide13
Regular Murders
Kill out of
anger or passionSlide14
Serial Killers
Kill many people, almost all of whom are
usually strangers
, over a period of time, and usually with some sort of cooling-off period
between killingsSlide15
3 is the magic number
A serial killer is someone who has killed a
minimum of three
people.
This includes people who were stopped from murdering before they reached 3 victimsSlide16
How do Serial Killers come to be?
There are three theories based on childhoodSlide17
Theory 1:
The compulsion (need) to kill may be the
result of trauma to the brainSlide18
Theory Two
The compulsion to kill is
genetic
. A
mutation in the DNA
happens that puts people on the homicidal path.Slide19
Theory Three
The compulsion is a result of something
dreadful
that happened to the child in
childhoodSlide20
The theories’ commonality:
All theories believe that serial killers begin to show signs in
childhoodSlide21
The signs:
Cruelty to animals
that increases over time
Pyromaniacy
- setting fires
Wetting the bedSlide22
Why do they kill?
Killing is something they can
control
It gives them a way to deal with the
terrifying events and feelings
from childhood
Allows the adult to feel all
powerful
and often fills a
sexual
needSlide23
Trophies
Some serial killers need something to
remind
them of the feeling of power
Trophies include:
Body Parts
Cannibalism
Trinkets from the victimSlide24
Empathy-
Empathy
- The ability to put yourself in someone else’s shoes and relate to their feelingsSlide25
Serial Killers are…
SOCIOPATHS
Missing the ability to
empathize
with the pain and suffering of others