The Role Of Serial Killers In Today's Society

Following research conducted and findings of previous topics and articles, this contribution is to open the mind and thoughts surrounding the questions many have asked. This paper will review the findings of research based on the mindset of serial killers and, will also explore the ideas and trends involving serial killers in today’s society. This article is designed to help us understand a little more about why things thought to be taboo involving serial killers, in some areas become somewhat of a trend. This article is appealing to readers with the basic social knowledge of trends, styles, and history of tattoos, and will cover these areas: why are serial killers so fascinating and intriguing to us in our modern culture, and why do people …show more content…
(2009). He talked in the article about how it is more likely to have the chemical imbalance, and serotonin levels that would drive the serial killer type behaviors. We all know that there is a very clear difference between psychopaths and people interested in psychopathy. There is a clear difference in the most basic behaviors of either the psycho or the seemingly regular individual. In an agreeing article covering types and subtypes of serial killers called (Serial Killers: Subtypes, patterns, and motives) the statement “so great is the thrill that many people get from momentary vicarious identification with such pure remorselessness, that some serial killers – much like gangsters – have achieved the status of criminal rock stars” Miller, L. …show more content…
Understanding tattoos and why a person gets one, is a solid base to start with as well as the history of where they come from and, the ways we have integrated them into our society today. While I cannot say why anyone would get a tattoo of a serial killer, I can say having tattoos are still somewhat of a taboo and in higher social status and professional environments are not greeted lightly still today, although I do see that changing further into the future. As the generations of people pass and standards change I think tattooing will be more widely accepted. As for tattoos of serial killers or anything hateful such as, swastikas I do not think will ever been seen in a positive way. There will never cease to be people that have opposite reactions to one specific subject or type of tattoo, I hope that tattoos, someday, will no longer be seen with negativity and that my contribution to understanding why serial killers are tattooed might be useful to furthering understanding the fascination of this type of