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In Serial Murder, a book by Robert Dolan, I read a chapter about where serial murderers come from. Dolan says that becoming a serial murderer developes over a period of time, and it usually begins in childhood. Many murderers commit small crimes before they commit murder. In this book Dolan mentions many murderers and tells their stories. One of the murderers is John Wayne Gacy. Gacy committed some sick murders before he was stopped by the police. Later after questioned about what made him do the things he did, he said he killed to gain the power that his father had taken away from him when he was a kid. Also Dolan states that 70 % of all interviewed criminals had a familiar history of abuse(Dolan 27). Also all serial murders suffer from emotional abuse. FBI profiler John Douglas talks about Ed Kemper, a serial murderer, and says that Kemper is " an example of someone not born a serial killer but manufactured as one(Dolan 30)." Douglas says this is because of his mother's abuse towards Kemper when he was a child. Another one on the serial murderers Dolan talks about is Richard Chase. Chase grew up with a schizophrenic mom and he later developed schizophrenia. Dolan believes that people who grow up with abuse and messed up parents later turns to violent crimes.
I believe Dolan's assumptions on serial murderers are very true. Given the facts about parental abuse towards their children, it is clear that children do turn to violent crimes if they are not raised in a healthy enviroment. I strongly believe that parents have a strong influence on their children's lives and the way their children behave. Also when children are exposed to their parents behaviors it tends to rub off on them. So if a parent exposes their child to abusive behaviors their child is going to turn to those behaviors later on in life.

Response 3

Criminal Minds on A&E follows the men and women of the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU), an elite team of FBI profilers who get inside the heads of hardened criminals to discover what makes them tick. Leader of the group is Jason Gideon, whose academic approach to cases and guides the team as they analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds. They specialize in anticipating their next moves before they strike again. Each member brings his or her own area of expertise to the table as they pinpoint predators' motivations and identify their emotional triggers in the attempt to stop them. This show entails many criminals and their intellect behind their crimes that they commit. There are many different types of criminals on this show some having backgrounds of child abuse and some just randomly committing crimes. It is up to the BAU to figure out what is really going on in the criminal minds as they hunt them down. Members of the BAU believe that there is always a motivation behind a criminal act, and if there isn’t then the patient is psychotic.
After watching criminal minds I realized that all of the murders in the show had a motive to kill. None of them just randomly wanted to kill someone or randomly become obsessed with killing. This proves that criminals don’t commit crimes because they were born to do it, they have had something happen to them that possessed them to think it was the right thing to do. These TV shows really were interesting to watch because they were realistic and seemed like they really understood what they were talking about. The information they provided really backed up with all the research I have found. I believe that being a criminal has nothing to do with genetics but it has to do with who you grow up around and who your surround yourself with in your everyday life.