SERIAL KILLER MIND

  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 19 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION   The personal cause category has eleven subcategories: eroto- mania-motivated murder, domestic homicide (spontaneous, staged, or neonaticide), argument/conflict murder, authority murder, revenge, nonspecific motive murder, extremist homicide (political, religious, or socioeconomic), “mercy/hero” homicide, and hostage murder. The sexual homicide category has five subcategories: organized crime-scene murder, disorganized crime- scene murder, mixed crime-scene murder, sadistic murder, and elder female sexual homicide. The group cause category has three subcategories: cult murder, extremist homicide (political, religious, or socioeconomic murder [para- military or hostage]), and group excitement.  

  Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 4 19 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITION John E. Douglas, Ann W. Burgess, Allen G. Burgess, and Robert K. Ressler, Editors   Thus, a given fact pattern might relate very much to sadism and would be condensed under the heading of “actions that cause a victim emotional suffering.” Or a perpetrator who enlists followers into active criminality may be, according to the construct of antisocial by proxy, represented well by “involving another person in the crime in order to maximize destructiveness.” After expanding the list of potential intents, actions, and attitudes to encompass the range of imagination for potential crimes, the Depravity Standard research project identified twenty-six items for closer study by April 2001 (Welner, 2001). These items focus on the depravity of a crime: that is, what is depraved. The items are event, history, and fact driven. Questions of who is de...