Such a statement keenly demonstrates the extent to which serial killers embrace and reproduce the wider cultural codings that have devalued, stigmatised and marginalised specific groups.
Through a distorted mirror, serial killers reflect back, and act upon, modernity's distinctive valuations. Recognising the dynamics of victim marginalisation is particularly germane to the study of serial killers, for the denigration of particular social groups is connected to specific opportunity structures for murder. That the victims of serial killers tend to be drawn from modernity's disposable classes can also mean that these victims are outside of effective systems of guardianship, and are targeted not only because they are more accessible, but also because their deaths are less likely to generate timely investigation or legal consequences.
While serial killing is routinely presented as the unfathomable behaviour of the lone, decontextualised and sociopathic individual, here we have emphasised the unnervingly familiar modern face of serial killing.
Several distinctively modern phenomena, including anonymity, a culture of celebrity enabled through the rise of mass media, and specific cultural frameworks of denigration, each provide key institutional frameworks, motivations and opportunity structures for analysing such acts.
To exclusively focus on aetiology and offender biography systematically ignores this larger social context, and elides a more nuanced understanding of the hows and whys of serial killing. Braudy, L. Egger, S. Holmes, R. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Nock, S. Wilson, D. Skip to main content. Kevin Haggerty and Ariane Ellerbrok examine the cultural and historical context of serial killing The study of serial killers has been dominated by an individualised focus on studying the biography of offenders and the causes of their behaviour.
Society of strangers Mass urbanisation is a distinctive characteristic of the modern era, something that has profoundly altered the nature of human relationships by virtue of generating an unprecedented degree of anonymity. Mass media and the culture of celebrity Although serial killing is statistically rare, it is nonetheless a ubiquitous cultural phenomena, one that for the vast majority of people is best understood as a media event Gibson, Marginalisation Perhaps the most terrifying aspect of serial murder is that such killings appear random.
Modern phenomena While serial killing is routinely presented as the unfathomable behaviour of the lone, decontextualised and sociopathic individual, here we have emphasised the unnervingly familiar modern face of serial killing. Ed Kemper , known as the Coed Killer, was a necrophiliac who murdered 10 people. He even killed his own mother and grandparents. He fully just called the police and turned himself in, which was so unbelievable that they actually thought it was a prank.
However, after his last escape, Bundy was caught driving a stolen car in Florida. The officer who pulled him over did not initially know who he was, but after the two had a brutal struggle, Bundy was finally arrested.
United States. Type keyword s to search. Today's Top Stories. Though many of these cases would have been solved before the advent of advanced forensic analysis. White explained that serial killer A dam Lane, known for stalking victims off highways while working as a truck driver in , was caught when the father of a year-old victim heard her screams after he broke into their home.
That father subdued him, leading to his arrest. White said, that with some exceptions, serial killers will continue to kill until they are caught. Crime Time is your destination for true crime stories from around the world, breaking crime news, and information about Oxygen's original true crime shows and documentaries.
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