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    The Answers about Mass Murders Mass murder can be described as a killing of three or more people at one time and one location. There can be many different types of mass murders like organized or unorganized or even family annihilators. Mass murderers have many different traits and features about themselves. Some of the traits that these mass murderers portray can be physical, emotional or even sexual. As for the motives to why mass murders happen, it is very hard to figure that out. There is so

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    Before we can take on the definitions of serial murder and mass murder, we must first understand what exactly constitutes murder. According to the United States Code-section 1111, murder is defined as the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought (4). With that said, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the term serial murder implies that there are at least three different murder events at three different locations, with a “cooling off” period between each event (Ramsland

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    Causes of Mass Murder Crime Alvenia Gregory Argosy University Abstract This paper examines the act of mass murder. If society can find a valid answer as to what causes a person to commit mass murders, then the possibility of preventing the act would be great because it would be probable to recognize the psychotic behavior that is associated with mass murder. Occurrences of mass murder for instance the shootings at Sandy Hook, Aurora Colorado theatre; Columbine and Virginia Tech over and over again

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    What is a mass murder? According to the FBI “mass murder was described as a number of murders (four or more) occurring during the same incident, with no distinctive time period between the murders. These events typically involved a single location, where the killer murdered a number of victims in an ongoing incident”(n/a, 2010). Anthony Sowell became a well-known serial killer in East Cleveland after his case became over publicized by media. Sowell was raised in a dysfunctional family, but after

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    act of Serial murder and mass murder have similar characteristics, however they are not the same. Before they can be defined, it is necessary to first understand what exactly constitutes murder. According to the United States Code-section 1111, murder is defined as the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought (FindLaw, 2014). With that said, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, “the term serial murder implies that there are at least three different murder events at three

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    Minds of Mass Murders

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    Abstract Many serial killers and mass murderers have been interviewed and tested to reveal why they killed and raped large groups of people. There are several factors as to why they perform such acts. My findings in this paper show that there is a logically explanation as to why they do what they do. In no way is killing or violence justified, but people have been through things we couldn’t imagine being put through. Many of these killers were put through harsh abuse physically, mentally, and emotionally

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    The research that I have found based upon mass murders is that having a publicly criminal sentence doesn’t stop the crimes from taking place. Mass murders are regarded as a killing of four people or more at a time. If you take murder in general you would notice that as of October 14, 2015 around 12:30 am the number of homicides in the U.S. is 13,208. It is very clear that sentencing for homicides are publicly published. Also, the number of mass shootings that have so far taken place since the beginning

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    PsychWatch: Mass Murders. I like they note in the article thought after listening to many different interviewers and videos trying to document and explain these mass murders that the clinical field had a good understanding of these individuals however it is said that they do not. One of the most fascinating things that they bring up in this excerpt is that these mass murders are not actually on the rise, there are specific types of these murders that are on the rise however. The pseudocommando mass murders

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    same; there are some who are mass murderers who go on killing rampages for reasons of their own, and then there are the serial killers that love to kill people because it makes them feel some sort of emotion. People often mistake these killers as one and the same, but in reality they are completely different in the ways they are profiled by the police, how they commit their murders and the effect they have on the community and the nation. Granted mass and serial murders are both killers, the police

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    So, if you're reading this I'm sure that, at this point, you've heard about the mass murder that happened in Las Vegas. A lot of people out there are claiming if we outright banned assault rifles, this wouldn't have happened. There's some very good arguments to be made for and against that, but I think there's something that is definitely being neglected in the debate over what happened, it's the shooter's mental state. When I say mental state, I don't mean mental health. The gun industry, democrats

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