SOC 2760 Study Guide - Final Guide: Rogue Trader, Neonaticide, English Channel

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2760
• Professor: Rob Shearer

Document Summary

Routine activity theory & motivation for serial and mass killings. Cohen & felson (1979): focuses on the situations of crimes. Opportunity for victimization is more important than social conditions (i. e. timing over poverty/inequality) Quantity of possible victims considered for mass murder. Motivations for serial killing: power (control/dominance), revenge (i. e. childhood trauma affecting victimology), loyalty (team killing), profit (expediency), terror (warning/power) Motivations for mass killing: power (creating a war zone), revenge (delivering punishment), loyalty (i. e. filicide), profit (robbery), terror (i. e. punishment), loyalty (i. e. filicide), profit (robbery), terror (i. e. political message) Serial killing defined and differences between it and other types of homicide. Serial killing: involves a string of four or more homicides committed by one or few perpetrators that span a period of days, weeks, months, or years . Convicted murderers suffered a number of important frustrations during childhood such as problematic lives, dissatisfaction with personal prestige or status, physical defects, poor results in school, and few friends.