A Psychological Profile of a Serial Killer: A Case Report

2012 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 299-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. D. Dogra ◽  
Antoon A. Leenaars ◽  
R. K. Chadha ◽  
Mehta Manju ◽  
Sanjeev Lalwani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Case Report ◽  
Forensic Medicine ◽  
The United States ◽  
Serial Killer ◽  
India Institute ◽  
Serial Killers ◽  
Psychological Profile ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
The Mind

Serial killers have always fascinated society. A serial killer is typically defined as a perpetrator who murders three or more people over a period of time. Most reported cases of serial killers come from the United States and Canada. In India, there are few reported cases. We present, to the best of our knowledge, the first Indian case in the literature. The present case is of a 28-year-old man, Surinder Koli. The Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delphi handled the forensic study. We present a most unique psychological investigation into the mind of a serial killer.

scholarly journals Proportional Hazard Model: A Discussion with Serial Killer Data

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sayak Khatua
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Survival Function ◽  
Hazard Model ◽  
The United States ◽  
Serial Killer ◽  
Serial Killers ◽  
Proportional Hazard ◽  
Proportional Hazard Model ◽  
Function Change ◽  
History Of

In this paper I use the Weibull Proportional Hazard model to look at risks associated with the serial killer if they are not arrested, when their killing spree ends. I use a unique dataset on Serial Killers for the United States containing information on over 3000 reported serial killers in the history of the United States. I look at different groups of people based on age, sex and race and how the hazard and survival function change based on the specifications.

scholarly journals Complications of drowning: A case report

2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (5) ◽  
pp. 284-8
Author(s):  
Felicia Anita Wijaya ◽  
I Gde Doddy Kurnia Indrawan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Case Report ◽  
Brain Damage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Accidental Death ◽  
Common Cause ◽  
Death By Drowning

Unintentional drowning is the sixth most common cause of accidental death, accounting for 4,086 deaths (1.4 per 100,000) in the United States in 2007.1 In children, drowning is the second leading cause of injury-related death, and those aged 1–3 years have the highest rate of drowning.2 More than 1,400 pediatric drownings were reported in the United States in 2008.3 Many drowning deaths are due to lack of supervision in the bathtub, unprotected access to a pool, or lack of swimming skills.3 For every death by drowning, six children are hospitalized for drowning, and up to 10% of survivors experience severe brain damage.2

scholarly journals Autochthonous Furuncular Myiasis in the United States: Case Report and Literature Review

2003 ◽  
Vol 36 (7) ◽  
pp. e73-e80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nasia Safdar ◽  
Daniel K. Young ◽  
David Andes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Case Report ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
The United States ◽  
Furuncular Myiasis

scholarly journals Case Report: A Common Source Outbreak of Anisakidosis in the United States and Postexposure Prophylaxis of Family Collaterals

2018 ◽  
Vol 99 (5) ◽  
pp. 1219-1221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron F. Carlin ◽  
Joseph M. Vinetz ◽  
Shira Abeles ◽  
Grace Y. Lin ◽  
Maile Young ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Case Report ◽  
The United States ◽  
Common Source ◽  
Postexposure Prophylaxis

Criminology and the legacies of Clarice Starling

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Serial Killer ◽  
Serial Killers ◽  
Serial Murder ◽  
Broadcast Media ◽  
Offender Profiling ◽  
American Popular Culture ◽  
Police Investigations ◽  
Student Interests ◽  
Popular Novel ◽  
The Mind

This chapter explores the enduring myths about the phenomenon of serial murder generally and serial killers in particular, in Britain between 1960 to the present. The Chapter argues that many of these myths have been created and continue to be perpetuated by the print and broadcast media. It is suggested that this process was ignited by American popular culture about serial murder, to the extent that many British students engaged on university courses do so because they want to emulate the heroine of the popular novel The Silence of the Lambs and become the fictional character, Clarice Starling. This observation is used to explore other myths about offender profiling, the role of the profiler in police investigations and the idea that this involves entering the mind of the serial killer by the profiler. Based on his own applied work with serial murderers and on police investigations and after their conviction, the chapter reveals the realities of the phenomenon of serial murder, serial killers and the limits of offender profiling. The chapter uses a number of situations encountered during police investigations and with serial killers to illustrate its arguments. It concludes that we need to harness, rather than dismiss, student interests in this territory in more productive ways. It adopts a structural/victim perspective about serial murder, as opposed to a relentless focus on what might motivate the serial killer to kill. The chapter suggests how this might be done both within the academy and, more broadly in public policy.

The Challenge of Limits

1993 ◽  
Author(s):  
Garrett Hardin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Waste Disposal ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Population ◽  
Human History ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Earth Day ◽  
The Mind

A funny thing happened on the way to the second nationwide Earth Day in 1990. Twenty years earlier the first Earth Day had been saluted with much talk about population problems. At that time world population stood at 3.6 billion. But when the second Earth Day rolled around, the topic of population was almost completely ignored. Was that because world population had stopped growing? Hardly: in the intervening two decades it had increased 47 percent to an estimated 5.3 billion— an increase of 1.7 billion (more than six times the present population of the United States). Common sense tells us that the per capita share of environmental riches must decrease as population numbers increase, and waste disposal necessarily becomes an ever greater problem. Of course common sense is sometimes wrong. But if that is so in this instance, the celebrants of the 1990 Earth Day should have been shouting, "We've found the secret of perpetual growth!" A few incurable optimists did defend this position, but most people lumped their claims with those of the flat earthers, ignoring both. The celebrants were generally silent about the 47 percent increase in population. Why? The answer comes in two parts, the first being historical. It is now known that the planners of Earth Day 1990 were under economic pressure to leave population out of the picture. When directors of philanthropic foundations and business concerns were solicited for financial support they let it be known that they would not look kindly on a population emphasis. Money talks, silence can be bought. (Why the bankrollers shied at population will become clear later.) The second aspect of the answer is more subtle. It has long been recognized that some of our most deeply held views are not neat, precise propositions but broadly "global" attitudes that act as the gatekeepers of the mind, letting in only those propositions that do not challenge the dominant picture of reality. Germans call such gatekeeper attitudes Weltanschauungen, an impressive mouthful that is quite adequately translated as "worldviews." For all but the last few hundred years of human history the dominant worldview was a limited view: resources were limited, human nature was fixed, and spending beyond one's income was a sin. This essentially conservative perception prevailed until about 1600.

Celebrity and Presidential Targets

Stalking ◽  
2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert T. M. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Local Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Figures ◽  
Celebrity Status ◽  
The Status ◽  
Unique Factor ◽  
The Mind

Celebrities have become targets of potentially violent stalkers who instill fear by their relentless pursuit and, in some reported cases, threatened risk of violence. Celebrity stalking may evolve to planned, often violent attacks on intentionally selected targets. The causes of these incidents are complex, and frequently involve delusional obsessions concerning a contrived relationship between the target and stalker. Similar dynamics can be at play for presidential stalkers. Becoming the focus of someone’s delusional obsession is a risk for anyone living in the public eye. Planned attacks by stalkers, however, are not confined to internationally prominent public officials and celebrities. Some of the same themes emerge on a more local level when public figures become the object of pursuit. Celebrity and presidential stalkers often do not neatly fit any of the typologies that have evolved to codify our understanding of the motivation and special characteristics of stalking. Clinicians are often unaware of a “zone of risk” that extends beyond the delusional love object and can lead to the injury of others in addition to the attempted or accomplished homicide of a celebrity or presidential target. Most people can resist the temptation to intrude on a celebrity’s privacy—celebrity stalkers do not. This chapter explores celebrity status, as seen by the public and in the mind of the would-be assailant, as a unique factor in stalking cases that raises issues of clinical relevance and unique typologies. Special attention is given to the behaviors and motivations of individuals who have stalked the presidents of the United States. Many celebrities become targets of stalkers who relentlessly pursue and frighten them and who, in some cases, threaten violence. Though each case of celebrity stalking is unique and complex, such incidents frequently involve delusional obsessions concerning the contrived relationship between the stalker and victim. Stalking is not confined solely to well-known figures, of course. However, it is the very nature of celebrity—the status and the visibility—that attracts the benign (if voyeuristic) attention of an adoring public and the ominous interest of the stalker. Obsessional following of celebrities is not a new phenomenon in the United States.

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