Murder Psychology

This article discusses the common psychological and social factors that are experienced by those who commit murders and explores the ways by which further research efforts will be committed in order to understand these factors more. Research that has been taken on these psychological and social factors faced by those guilty of murder, and has also gone through psychiatric analyses. This allows their conditions to be further studied and providing an understanding to their behavior. It is made evident that for majority of mass murderers, there are various reasons as to why they commit these crimes and emphasizes the influence of psychological and social factors on what is actually committed. It is useful for us in that it provides a deep insight into the insanity of murderers and allows us to view situations from their perspective. In saying so these perspectives usually are not reality, it being affected by the …show more content…
The authors’ have gained a deeper insight into the perspective of various criminals who have been convicted of murder. Through interviews they have sought to understand the reasoning and thought process as to what made these criminals commit their crime. From this they are able to hypothesize the murder as an act of power, in order to heal a ‘wound’, this emphasizing the way by which personality disorders can coerce people to take extreme actions. These studies provide a valid view into the aspect of disorders and are useful in providing information about the causation of murders, particularly in the dual murder case they study. In saying this there is evidence to suggest that actions committed may be out of control of these criminals, however the actuality of these disorders cannot be understood without experience. This helps with the research as it provides an insight