Dr. Spencer Reid (thisiscalm) wrote in marinanova, @ 2013-08-16 20:32:00 |
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232 // Criminology Class //Open!
[ Eight lectures. He's starting to get warmed up by now and despite the rather startling meetings during the newcomer flood the day before, Reid is surprisingly calm and confident. ]
Before we begin, I'd like to take a moment to welcome Artemis Crock as our new TA. She's been informed about the content of today's lecture beforehand and will be helping you with the assignment, as well as fill you in on past lectures should you have missed them.
Alright! Let's get started.
HISTORICAL SERIAL KILLER — Ted Bundy
Theodore Robert "Ted" Bundy was an American serial killer, rapist, kidnapper, and necrophile who assaulted and murdered numerous young women and girls during the 1970s and possibly earlier. After more than a decade of denials, he confessed shortly before his execution to 30 homicides committed in seven states between 1974 and 1978; the true total remains unknown, and could be much higher.
Bundy was regarded as handsome and charismatic by his young female victims, traits he exploited in winning their trust. He typically approached them in public places, feigning an injury or disability, or impersonating an authority figure, before overpowering and assaulting them at a more secluded location. He sometimes revisited his secondary crime scenes for hours at a time, grooming and performing sexual acts with the decomposing corpses until putrefaction and destruction by wild animals made further interaction impossible. He decapitated at least 12 victims and kept some of the severed heads in his apartment for a period of time as mementos. On a few occasions, he simply broke into dwellings at night and bludgeoned victims as they slept.
[ Wiki]
PSYCHOLOGY — Socio- versus psychopaths
Psychopathy and sociopathy are both anti-social personality disorders. While both these disorders are the result of an interaction between genetic predispositions and environmental factors, psychopathy leans towards the hereditary whereas sociopathy tends towards the environmental.
Psychopaths are born with temperamental differences such as impulsivity, cortical underarousal, and fearlessness that lead them to risk-seeking behavior and an inability to internalize social norms. On the other hand, sociopaths have relatively normal temperaments; their personality disorder being more an effect of negative sociological factors like parental neglect, delinquent peers, poverty, and extremely low or extremely high intelligence.
Anti-social personality disorder results in extremely violent acts. Though psychiatrists often consider and treat sociopaths and psychopaths as the same, criminologists treat them as different because of the difference in their outward behaviour.
[ Comparison article ]
PRACTICAL APPLICATION
[ As he speaks, he writes up the headers on the whiteboard. ]
Over the past few lectures we've talked about what makes a serial killer, the definition between spree, serial and mass murderers, victimology, crimes of obsession, sexual sadism, geographic profiling, organized and disorganized killers and now the difference between sociopaths and psychopaths. All of these are important tools when it comes to criminal profiling — especially coupled with physical evidence, autopsy reports and witness statements.
There are many more subjects to cover and I will continue to go through them in the following lectures, but if you've attended every class so far you'll now have your basic tool kit to put together a criminal profile… and that's what I want you to do.
A few lectures back, we had a roleplaying session. I'd like for you to revisit that today: pick a partner, make up a crime or use a historical case from your own world if you have one and then profile the killer. Remember to only give out the information that would be readily available to the investigators, such as details about the crime scene, the victim and the method of murder.
Good luck.
Q&A
[ A Q&A thread can be found here for all your question-based needs! There is also a suggestions box available — just note that your character is dropping a note in the box in the subject header and it will be brought up during the next class! ]