Many serial killers are survivors of early childhood trauma of some kind â physical or sexual abuse, family dysfunction, emotionally distant or absent parents. And often that capacity is grafted onto a sexual impulse â aggression sexualized at puberty. What remains behind is these un-fully-socialized beings with this capacity to attack and kill. Perhaps itâs not that serial killers are made, but that the majority of us are unmade, by good parenting and socialization. Killers are anachronisms whose primal instincts are not being moderated by the more intellectual parts of our brain. My basic argument is that it is intrinsic to the human survival mechanism that we have this capacity to repeatedly kill. Are serial killers a product of nature (genetics) or nurture (environmental factors)? One of the oldest questions in criminology â and, for that matter, philosophy, law, theology â is whether criminals are born or made. The book explores how our understandings of serial killers â called âmonstersâ before the advent of modern psychology â have changed over time, and considers answers to a difficult question: what, exactly, âmakesâ a serial killer?
His latest, Sons of Cain: A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present, will be released 14 August in the US and Canada and 16 August in the UK. The Guardian spoke with Peter Vronsky, a historian and journalist based in Toronto and the author of several books studying the history and psychopathology of serial killers. Serial killer Aileen Wuornos had a childhood filled with abuse and emotional neglect. They all show distinct patterns of childhood abuse and early trauma. If a potential killer has the wrong genetics and a terrible childhood. Traumatic: Wuornos (pictured as a child) was sexually abused by her. Serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute, was sentenced to death after.
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