Book contents
- Understanding Sexual Serial Killing
- Understanding Sexual Serial Killing
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I The Factors That Underlie Lust Killing
- Chapter 1 How to Gain Understanding
- Chapter 2 A Focus on the Individual
- Chapter 3 States of Brain and Mind
- Chapter 4 A Focus on the Context
- Chapter 5 Ways of Explaining
- Chapter 6 The Motivation Underlying Serial Lust Killing
- Chapter 7 Inhibition
- Chapter 8 The Making of a Sexual Serial Killer
- Chapter 9 Linking Normality to Abnormality
- Chapter 10 Looking for a Thrill
- Chapter 11 Beyond Conventional Desire
- Chapter 12 Can It Become Addictive?
- Part II Biographical Sketches
- Part III Final Word
- References
- Index
Chapter 8 - The Making of a Sexual Serial Killer
from Part I - The Factors That Underlie Lust Killing
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 May 2022
- Understanding Sexual Serial Killing
- Understanding Sexual Serial Killing
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I The Factors That Underlie Lust Killing
- Chapter 1 How to Gain Understanding
- Chapter 2 A Focus on the Individual
- Chapter 3 States of Brain and Mind
- Chapter 4 A Focus on the Context
- Chapter 5 Ways of Explaining
- Chapter 6 The Motivation Underlying Serial Lust Killing
- Chapter 7 Inhibition
- Chapter 8 The Making of a Sexual Serial Killer
- Chapter 9 Linking Normality to Abnormality
- Chapter 10 Looking for a Thrill
- Chapter 11 Beyond Conventional Desire
- Chapter 12 Can It Become Addictive?
- Part II Biographical Sketches
- Part III Final Word
- References
- Index
Summary
Bowlby proposed that the child forms a working model of the relationship between his/herself and caregivers. Where there is abuse, the working model represents this. In response, the child can learn to perform aggressive behaviour. A common feature of serial lust killers is that they experienced humiliation in their early lives. Early sources of abuse include physical, psychological and sexual. Later sources of trauma include taunting over sexual orientation and failure to find a girlfriend. Somewhat similar to the notion of ‘working model’ is that of a ‘love map’. The love map can be corrupted so that violence becomes encoded. The process of sensory preconditioning is under the control of dopamine and is responsible for forming links between an aversive emotion and sexual desire. In some cases, a traumatic memory can be revised to take on positive qualities and underlie lust killing. The Old Brain matures faster than the New Brain.
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- Understanding Sexual Serial Killing , pp. 102 - 116Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022