Profiling

People say its nature or nurture who creates serial killers, I say “profiling”

what is profiling, it is basically an FBI’s method of catching the serial killers according to Wikipedia it can be defined as  “profiling is used to detect and classify the major personality and behavioral characteristics of an individual based upon analysis of the crime or crimes the person committed".

hence there must be similarities between crimes to identify them which is particularly useful in some cases especially for those killers who have a history, of mental disorders but the profiling never guaranteed what was coming next and in most cases, like it was even proven terribly wrong, some serial killers do suffer from an anti-social personality disorder (APD), even deeper mental illness, like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or borderline personality disorder, which affect their ability to tell right from wrong. For example, David Berkowitz (aka the Son of Sam) took the lives of 6 people. He claimed that his neighbor's dog told him to kill. Hence diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.  Albert Fish (raped, killed, and cannibalized hundreds of children) he had a psychopathic personality without psychosis, Jeffrey Dahmer was diagnosed with a borderline personality disorder

but For those people who believe that all serial killers have mental issues and it can be solved by such profiles is a myth, as most serial killers are not insane, they don’t hear voices in a room, they don’t hallucinate they know the difference between right and wrong, the case of Ted Bundy is the best example, who has no issue fond out by anyone at any stage of his life people generally considered him as a very pleasant fellow and even the judge called him a very bright man with a good sense of humor this is the very reason why he was giving the authorities a tough time in proving him guilty but the moment after he was caught and proved guilty sudden was accused of so many mental diseases (like bipolar disorder etc ), think about it if you closely analyze anyone around you, you will find at least 3-4 psychological disorders in them, the media was so obsessed with him that he was asked time and again about being a lonely or tortured child which he denied and was confirmed by the calmness and loving nature of his mother, psychological trauma such as "telling a kid you mother is not who you think" but still living with the same loving mother is in no way an abusing childhood but part of a sad memory as they were still together, this was even tried to fix by the psychiatrists studying Mr. Bundy but was denied by this x psychology student 

another reason for his killing was that he wanted to be a politician (famous) and worked briefly for Seattle crime commission  where he has access to a lot of crime statistics, the record-keeping system he knew how the cases were taken care of, what the police did and what they did not do so he was convinced that he will never get caught. He saw the places where someone smart enough can take advantage of

In summary, only these things are responsible for the killings

1.     Huge coverage and brainwashed by the media(read more )

2.     Opportunity (read more )

3.     Knowing that we won’t get caught (like just discussed in ted Bundy's case)

Behaviorist John Broadus Watson (1930 ) was correct when he said: “Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I’ll guarantee to take anyone at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select—doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.”

Psychopaths were characterized by the "profilers" as a white male, usually from low to the middle-class background, having a troubled past, usually intelligent but as students, they have difficulty focusing, most of the killers were good looking guys, as are mostly high achievers because they are the ones who go after what they want, mostly aged from 15 to 35. isolated, etc

All of these criteria have been proved wrong by many people such as

Like Black woman serial killer (e.g Clementine Barnabe ) Albert fish and john Wayne Gacy were grandfathers, who among other crime they killed and molested children when he started killing, People like Richard Starrett was raised in a normal childhood and healthy environment

oxford psychologist Kevin Dutton made psychopaths so attractive that even I want to be one, for example, he said “the best chief executives, entrepreneurs, doctors, lawyers tend to be psychopaths .. and that is how it is made a very charming term

The term profile began to use as there were so many similarities between the killings of people, hence it was thought that this can help to solve the murder mysteries but it is what I call “ the reason what initiated it in the modern definition, for example, there is a beautifully textured checklist of the psychopath created by Dr.Robert Hare, try to give your self marks in it or you will see you are one of them and most people are.

Psychopathy checklist

It is considered as the most authentic way to predict psychological behavior of an individual, the rules to score the test, according to business insider is “On each criterion, the subject is ranked on a 3-point scale: (0 = item does not apply, 1 = item applies somewhat, 2 = item definitely applies). The scores are summed to create a rank of zero to 40. Anyone who scores 30 and above is probably a psycho.” Following are here are the infamous 20 questions:

1.     Do you exhibit glib and superficial charm?

2.     Do you have a grandiose (exaggeratedly high) estimation of self?

3.     Do you have a constant need for stimulation?

4.     Are you a pathological liar?

5.     Are you cunning and manipulative?

6.     Do you have a lack of remorse or guilt?

7.     Do you have a shallow affect (superficial emotional responsiveness)?

8.     Are you callous, and do you lack empathy?

9.     Do you have a parasitic lifestyle?

10.   Do you have poor behavioral controls?

11.   Are you sexually promiscuous?

12.   Did you display early behavior problems?

13.    Do you lack realistic long-term goals?

14.   Are you overly impulsive?

15.    Are you irresponsible?

16.    Do you fail to accept responsibility for own actions?

17.   Have you had many short-term marital relationships?

18.   Do you have a history of juvenile delinquency?

19.   Have you experienced a revocation of conditional release?

20.   Do you display criminal versatility?

Now Fit yourself or anyone you know in the list or and then award marks accordingly, most of us fit the list or the people with HUMAN nature get above 30, referring to them as "human natured people" is because of the reason that there are ups and downs but they will not kill in any circumstances if they were allowed to do the question is those who got 30 or above are supposed to start killing right away?

Scientific evidence claim that we can identify serial killers as young as 4 years their brain functions differently from normal children Studies of children for example who have diagnosed with “attention deficient” and “conduct disorder” were followed and half of them were arrested before they reach 18, but those who were treated at a very young age were cured yet there are so many people who have these disorders and they have lived their life without harming anyone

       one case scenario is of James Fallon (a UC Irvine School of Medicine neuroscientist) using a PET scanner He accidentally found out that his brain patterns are of same of a psychopath, he also admits that he does have serial killers in his family and joked about some of his behavior which was considered odd in terms of relationships but that does not make a normal guy a killer and hence despite having the brain of a so-called serial killer he is not a killer

        I do agree that Thomas Hobbes suggests that the nature of homosexuals is extremely violent but they don’t always show this side of their reality, there is violence in every one of us for example, we like wrestling though it is clear that professional wrestling is a pretend sport, yet it gets higher and higher rating which keeps it we feel pleasured with seeing people, it is the same for other movies we know they are fictional stories yet we fall for them but does it makes

Jon Ronson (author of The Psychopath Test) claim that 1 in 100 regular people is a psychopath, higher the achiever in a place increase the presence more number of Psychopaths, This statement in its self is an encouragement to become one

almost 95% of people face some kind of tragedy when they are kids for example from their parents, bullying by school fellow or even something rude behavior by the siblings. but this feature is so highlighted in the serial killer cases that sometimes they feel sympathy, the thing kept in mind is that people who suffer from child abuse 99% don’t become psychopaths, while 1 % end up killing people,

An Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View is a 1974 book by social psychologist Stanley Milgram experiment suggested that 60% humans tend to follow because they want to follow and torture each other, by interpretation this one among many  conclusions I believe that they are doing so because they have a reason to justify their behavior, each and every one of us tends to commit any type of crime when we are able to give a reason which will make us feel less guilty for example a German serial killer Rudolf Pleil (killer of 10  females )told the policemen  “what I did was no such a great harm with all these surplus women nowadays, anyone I had such a great time “

Caltech and Stanford did a very interesting Study which Shows Price Influences Perception In a wine experiment, for example, they claim that the wine with higher price taste better unaware of the fact that those were the same wine in different glasses, this is how the brain works when you tell it anything it becomes the reality, and even scans of their brain supported the reports, a region in the brain called medial orbitofrontal cortex or mOFC shows higher activity when they drank the wine they thought were higher in price, it shows the character of the brain that If you are told enough time that you have everything it takes to be a psychopath, with time the brain with the right circumstance will become one,

Hence ted Bundy’s quote is considered disturbing by some but is a bitter reality as anyone anytime can be converted to one …

“We serial killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are everywhere. And there will be more of your children dead tomorrow.”