But more often than not the victim and the stalker have either current or former romantic ties. Government figures show that 77% of female victims and 64% of male victims knew there stalkers. So over ¾ of female victims and almost 2/3rds of male victims knew there stalker, and what do you think set off these stalkers? The most common trigger is a broken, jealous, heart. (Koch, 2007) So this shows that one of the largest causes of stalking is jealousy.
Jack the Ripper The definition of a serial killer is usually an individual who has killed three or more people over a time period of more than a month. Between the murders there have been what is called a down time, "a cooling of period". Often there is a sexual element involved in the killings and the offenders usually act alone and the victims often have something in common such as race, age or similar appearance. I have always been fascinated by the psychology of criminals and chose to write about Jack the Ripper because he does not quite fit the typical profile of a serial killer yet he is one of the most infamous serial killer to this day. The fact that his identity is unknown makes it even more interesting.
Bundy would drive his victim to an isolated area where he would commence his series of torture. His victims were typically sexually assaulted and then strangled. With almost every murder Bundy would consume alcohol in order to avoid thinking twice ("Victim Studies 004: Ted Bundy." 1). No one in their right mind can commit atrocious crimes.
If the abuse is particularly serious and they feel there no way out of it they may deal with it in more drastic ways like trying to take their own life. It may result in serious anxiety and depression which is going to stay with them for the rest of their lives. Major Long-Term Medical Symptoms of Physical Abuse may be insomnia. Insomnia is when someone has difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep. Insomnia is a common problem for people that suffer or have suffered from physical abuse.
Social isolation, poor housing, unemployment and poverty are all linked to mental ill health. So stigma and discrimination can trap people in a cycle of illness. The situation is exacerbated by the media. Media reports often link mental illness with violence, or portray people with mental health problems as dangerous, criminal, evil, or very disabled and unable to live normal, fulfilled lives. 2.2 How mental illness can have an impact on the individual: Psychologically: - person may become paranoid and therefore exclude him or her self -person may become paranoid and therefore hurt others who she/he fears will try to hurt him/her -person may become isolated and therefore out of touch with other people and reality in general -person may feel unloved even if it is not true -person may feel like he/she is a threat to society and therefore attempt suicide emotionally: -person may feel isolated, unloved, paranoid, panicked and non-human (read Francis Kafka's The Metamorphosis)
11/03/2014 Gary Ridgway Gary Ridgway was best known as the “Green River” serial killer due to where he left his victims. For two decades Ridgway went on a shocking killing spree targeting more than forty-eight prostitutes and teenage runaways. Overtime, killing became part of his well-being. It takes a certain kind of mind to digest the taking of another human life with no remorse. For an individual to lose self-control in such deviant and heinous activity, left fear upon many.
Chronic illness can also lead to depression. People with depression often do not socialize with other people or just walk by themselves and reject their friends, spouse, or family. Depression can cause heart attacks and also Parkinson’s disease (which is what Robin Williams had). Depression can cause headaches, neck pain, and abdominal pain. Depression can interfere with sexual performance.
Their ideas and thoughts are obviously tainted with inaccuracies, and often times the stalker will recognize this. But that does not stop the stalker, from pursuing the thing that gives them that real rush they strive for. Again, all of this can be derived from the unbalanced ratio of dopamine and serotonin in a stalkers body. Two main emotions that the majority of stalkers possess are anger and jealousy, both of which are magnified due to the uncommon
Types of abuse Signs and symptoms Why people are vulnerable to this type of abuse Physical Marks on a person such as bruising, burn marks, bite marks also a change in a person’s behaviour could be a sign of physical abuse. People are vulnerable to physical abuse because they cant fight back, they don’t know anything different, there young/elderly, disabled - (physically or mentally ) they also might have a sensory impairment. Sexual Signs of sexual abuse could be repeated urinary infections, depression, low self esteem, and unable to form a long time relationship. People are vulnerable to sexual abuse because they might be too young to know the difference or could be an elderly person who cant do anything about therefore there are frail and scared. They could be disabled therefore they cant speak out of protect themselves from abuse Emotional Being emotional abused could lend to having low self esteem and no confidence with in your self, this could also lend to being withdrawn from
This leaves the job of prosecuting very difficult for the prosecution. Many victims do not like to fully cooperate in a stalking or harassment prosecution. This is a situation also seen in domestic violence cases. The reasons why a victim of stalking