Understanding Serial Killers: The Psychological Roots and Murder Methods

Allie Mitchell Professor Gross ENGL 102 14 March 2022 Annotated Bibliography Marono, Abbie J., Sasha Reid, Enzo Yaksic and David Adam Keatly “A Behaviour Sequence Analysis of Serial Killers’ Lives: From Childhood Abuse to Methods of Murder.” Psychiatry, Psychology, and Law, vol. 27, 2020, pp.126-137 https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2019.1695517 In this scholarly article, researchers conducted a study on how different types of child abuse affects the way serial killers choose what methods they will use to commit their crime. Their primary finding was that each type of abuse (psychological, physical, and sexual) has a different outcome of methods for murder. These researchers are all apart of psychology departments at different universities like University of Lincoln, University of Toronto, and Northeastern University. This article will be useful in supporting my argument because this research shows some reasoning for why serial killers commit their crimes and can lead to ways of learning how to stop them. Knight, Zelda G. “Some Thoughts on the Psychological Roots of the Behavior of Serial Killers as Narcissists: An Object Relations Perspective.” Social Behavior and Personality, vol. 34, 2006, pp. 1189-1206. http://kwc.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/ login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,cpid,url&custid=s8445016&db=a9h&AN=23218518&site=ehost-live In this scholarly article, Knight discusses findings of killer’s specific traits when it comes to their murdering style. Knight explains each murdering style and gives many characteristics of each. Knight also outlines possible abuse history to add to her explanation of why killers became the way that they did, and the things they did in leu of that. Knigh