Case Study of Jeffrey Dahmer
A Case-Study of Jeffrey Dahmer.
This paper will present case-analysis of the life and history of American psychopathic offender Jeffrey Dahmer. With the aim of carrying out this assignment effectively the research will be done from a psychological perspective; with regard to understanding the best fitted typology for the defendant’s criminality. Here these intimate aspects of the study will purely focus on the profiling of the offender, analyzing his past criminal record conjointly introducing the different types of influences on his criminal career. Subsequently one will uncover the number and types of individuals who fallen victim to the offender’s crimes, jointly explaining the impact his offences had on society. In the end this piece will determine whether there is any kind of treatment or rehabilitation best suited for this offender, which may prevent them from reoffending in the near future. During the late 1970’s the US saw a momentous decade, noticing radical transformations to technology, and major advancements towards liberation and freedom. These societal progressive steps confirmed that US society was now expressing one another more passionately and openly than ever before. This view justifies rationale for the spate of killings that would commence by the hands of Dahmer and other similar types of criminals of that era. However Dahmer began to show mental signs of sadistic behaviour during his pre-teen years after moving hometown. Whilst his peers were living normal young lives, Dahmer would show his morbid fascination with death; collecting dead animals to take apart the remains so he could view the viscera and store the bones. Evidently this abnormal behaviour would later link with his extreme desire to gain sexual gratification from having sex with, mutilating and even eating his dead victims. According to reliable documentary source BORN TO KILL? JEFFREY DAHMER (2005) it is alleged that “the breakdown of his parents’
This paper will present case-analysis of the life and history of American psychopathic offender Jeffrey Dahmer. With the aim of carrying out this assignment effectively the research will be done from a psychological perspective; with regard to understanding the best fitted typology for the defendant’s criminality. Here these intimate aspects of the study will purely focus on the profiling of the offender, analyzing his past criminal record conjointly introducing the different types of influences on his criminal career. Subsequently one will uncover the number and types of individuals who fallen victim to the offender’s crimes, jointly explaining the impact his offences had on society. In the end this piece will determine whether there is any kind of treatment or rehabilitation best suited for this offender, which may prevent them from reoffending in the near future. During the late 1970’s the US saw a momentous decade, noticing radical transformations to technology, and major advancements towards liberation and freedom. These societal progressive steps confirmed that US society was now expressing one another more passionately and openly than ever before. This view justifies rationale for the spate of killings that would commence by the hands of Dahmer and other similar types of criminals of that era. However Dahmer began to show mental signs of sadistic behaviour during his pre-teen years after moving hometown. Whilst his peers were living normal young lives, Dahmer would show his morbid fascination with death; collecting dead animals to take apart the remains so he could view the viscera and store the bones. Evidently this abnormal behaviour would later link with his extreme desire to gain sexual gratification from having sex with, mutilating and even eating his dead victims. According to reliable documentary source BORN TO KILL? JEFFREY DAHMER (2005) it is alleged that “the breakdown of his parents’
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