I think if they include poisoning and Black Widow style murders, women tend toward that sort of thing and I'm not surprised. You also have women who kill their offspring, as fucking horrendous as that is, over the course of many years.
I prefer this definition from Wikipedia for serial killers, "A serial killer is typically a person who murders three or more people,[1] usually in service of abnormal psychological gratification, with the murders taking place over more than a month and including a significant break (a "cooling off period") between them." because if we're just saying anyone who kills more than one person is a serial killer, the term loses all meaning. While it is accurate semantically, I think we need the distinction because there is something fundamentally different when the murderer is killing and eating or killing and fucking his victims, wouldn't you say?
Only from my research over years, which it would be impossible to source since it's just been years of reading shit, I don't think that's accurate. Even the decent paper I turned up with the stupid new FBI definition showed a higher percentage of white perpetrators than there are white people in general in the United States. We're not all that white these days. I'm not sure I'd attribute it to race, though. Really, I think it has something to do with means, culture, etc. Maybe black people are more prone to shootings because of gang culture and white people are more prone to serial killings because of unrealistic porn. /kidding I have no clue what could be the cause of it, but I do know it has nothing to do with actually being white or black.
I prefer this definition from Wikipedia for serial killers, "A serial killer is typically a person who murders three or more people,[1] usually in service of abnormal psychological gratification, with the murders taking place over more than a month and including a significant break (a "cooling off period") between them." because if we're just saying anyone who kills more than one person is a serial killer, the term loses all meaning. While it is accurate semantically, I think we need the distinction because there is something fundamentally different when the murderer is killing and eating or killing and fucking his victims, wouldn't you say?
Quote:"The racial diversity of serial killers generally mirrors that of the overall U.S. population."
Only from my research over years, which it would be impossible to source since it's just been years of reading shit, I don't think that's accurate. Even the decent paper I turned up with the stupid new FBI definition showed a higher percentage of white perpetrators than there are white people in general in the United States. We're not all that white these days. I'm not sure I'd attribute it to race, though. Really, I think it has something to do with means, culture, etc. Maybe black people are more prone to shootings because of gang culture and white people are more prone to serial killings because of unrealistic porn. /kidding I have no clue what could be the cause of it, but I do know it has nothing to do with actually being white or black.
