Serial crimes are repetitive crimes committed by habitual offenders in the same way. Law enforcement databases help identify patterns and flag them as serial crimes. Serial crimes include murder, rape, arson, bombing, robbery, stalking, and juvenile crimes. Serial crimes stem from a passion and often involve abuse or loss in the offender’s past. The real truth about serial criminals is difficult to ascertain due to their manipulative and deceptive nature.
A serial crime is a repetitive crime committed by a habitual offender who usually commits the same type of crime and in the same way. Law enforcement databases typically contain information about crimes, perpetrators, victims, and elements involved in the crime. This information helps form clusters of crimes that can be flagged as ‘serial’ when patterns emerge regarding the type of crime and the methods of its implementation. A serial crime committed by a career criminal is scary to many people because they believe the criminal will continue to offend until he is stopped, and they will continue because they actually enjoy committing crimes against others. Legal codes generally do not define “serial” crime, so this type of crime has no defined elements.
There are different types of serial crimes, including serial murder, serial rape, serial arson, stalking, serial bombing, and even some juvenile crimes. Serial killer homicides are the category most people think of when they hear the term “serial” in relation to crime. While there is no particular definition for serial killing, it was quite well accepted that there should be three or more victims with some amount of time passing between each killing, rather than all the killings happening in a short space of time. The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has defined serial homicide as the killing of two or more people in separate events. It is believed that most serial killers get emotional gratification from killing, as opposed to someone who kills for profit, such as a contract killer, who would not necessarily be labeled a serial killer.
Another serial crime is rape. This crime typically meets the same criteria as serial murder: three or more victims with a period of time between each rape. Although it has been speculated that rape is a sex crime, many experts believe that serial rape is a crime of rage and power over the victim.
There are also serial arsonists, serial bombers, serial robbers, stalkers and serial juvenile crimes. The intent of the arsonist, the bomber, and even the stalker can be understood, but the juvenile serial offender may be more difficult to understand. Some crimes committed by a minor are brushed aside by the fact that the person is simply an angry teenager. While this might be true in some cases, the minor’s continued recidivism could be a clue to their criminal future, perhaps even a serial criminal future.
Serial crimes of all kinds have a few things in common. In general, serial crimes stem from a passion: a love of killing, a pride in fire, the joy of seeing victims in fear, or even a sexual liberation that is only possible by committing the serial crime. Many experts believe that some or most serial offenders were abused as children, or perhaps suffered great loss. Criminologists and researchers around the world know little about the serial criminal because there are so few who are willing to talk, and of those, it must be understood that many of them can be manipulative and deceptive, so the real truth may be difficult to ascertain.
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