2. • Killed 3 or More Times
• Separate Occasions
• Cooling Off Period In Between
3. • Gilles de Rais
• Elizabeth Bathory
• Jack the Ripper
• H.H. Holmes
4. • What do you think causes a person to become a serial
killer?
• What two words would you use to describe a serial
killer?
• Now take THIS test. What was your score? What does
it mean?
• After watching the film, do you think psychology or
social factors best explain serial killers?
5. • Sociologist James DeFronzo used Durkheim’s
suicide study
• Substituted “serial killers” for suicide
• Same factors that increased suicide rates
increased serial killer rates:
• Weak Social Integration
6. • Industrial Revolution
• Urbanization
• Gesellschaft= social relations based on
impersonal ties
• Isolation and Anonymity