They are more broadly categorized as people that display characteristics of antisocial personality disorder. Serial killers are defined as people who had committed acts of violence at several, unique times (different from mass murder where multiple people are killed at one particular time). It acted as a reference which allowed for legal judgements of sexual criminals as it suggested that their mental state was to blame for the crime and thus must be accounted for. The book was a pioneer as it was one of the first texts written in an academic fashion which discussed sexual practices and how sexual desires outside of the motivation to sire offspring were considered to be a form of perversion as practices done by homosexuals did not provide any biological benefit. Kraft Ebing, which was published in 1886 and was expanded upon in its following versions. One of the first books to document violent and sexual crimes committed by such murderers was Psychopathia Sexualis, by Dr. This phenomenon is not exclusive to the United States and has been documented previously in other regions of the world. Although accounting for only 1% of all murders in a given year in the United States, serial murders cases are usually not clear and the personalities involved in the murder are of great interest to psychologists and in popular culture as people attempt to solve the puzzle of the motivations behind a certain crime.
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