Is it possible to rehabilitate serial killers

Frustration is something they cannot tolerate and the likelihood of their learning from punishment or experience is positively nil. Simon, , p. For almost twenty years, the special task force formed by the King County police focusing on solving the Green River murders labored under a mountain of information and leads received from an already panicked state. He also liked the idea that their absence would not be noticed right away therefore allowing him to pick up and kill as many as he wanted without getting caught Bell.

There are some issues however with regard to whether or not he may be sentenced to the death penalty in other jurisdictions as some of the victims were possibly killed and buried in other areas outside of King County. There are also questions as to why a sane man who has committed 48 pre-meditated murders should be able to escape capital punishment through a plea bargain Bell. Berkowitz also freely admitted that he used to hang around police stations and reveled in people talking about his crimes Bardsley.

Berkowitz had his first parole hearing in July 9, At this hearing, Berkowitz, then 49 years of age, frankly told the parole board that he had no idea as to why he committed his murders and believed that he did not deserve parole. To this day, Berkowitz has continually shown remorse and begs forgiveness from the families left behind by the people he murdered.

In August 18, , year old Dennis Rader of Park City, Kansas was sentenced to 10 consecutive life sentences years with no chance of parole for at least 40 years at the El Doraro Correctional Facility.

This multiple murder was the start of his lust for blood that would lead him to kill 6 more people in the following years, often employing his modus operandi of binding, torturing and killing his victims p.

Rader claims that it was the existence of demons within him that drove him to kill. Dahmer was not only a serial killer. His career as such started when he was 18 years old in and continued until his final arrest in By that time had already murdered 17 men and boys in addition to sexually assaulting others.

In addition to committing murder, Dahmer was also a necrophile and cannibal. Some believe that Dahmer was glad that his killing career was over p. Despite their relief however, Dahmer entered a plea of guilty but by reason of insanity at his July 13, trial.

The jury rejected the plea and convicted Dahmer to 15 consecutive life terms totaling years to be served at the Columbia Correctional Institute in Wisconsin.

Later however, Dahmer was able to convince prison officials to allow him to eat and work with the other inmates. Jesse Anderson was a white man who killed his wife and tried to pin the murder on a black man.

Christopher Scarver was a black schizophrenic. The explosive nature of the combination alone was very obvious according to some observers Bardsley.

Bardsley cites some claims that Dahmer found God during the time of his life in prison. They are some however who believe that such claims were only publicity stunts in the part of Ratcliff. Shawcross himself gave up many confessions where he detailed mutilating and eating body parts of his victims.

These confessions found very little basis in the known facts held by police and were since dismissed as attempts to substantiate his insanity plea. In interviews conducted with Shawcross in the years following his conviction, Shawcross just rehashed his stories of allegedly mutilating and eating body parts of his victims.

Dorothy Lewis, one of the psychiatrists that figured in the trial believes that all these stories are just fabrications and had no actual basis in fact. In the case of brutal and gruesome murders, there always comes the question of whether the crime is caused by mental defects that require and can possibly be fixed by rehabilitation and treatment, or is it a case of pure evil that belongs either behind bars or in the grave.

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As well as this they have the 'actus reus' which means they have physically done the act. Putting both of these into perspective, I feel it's disagreeing with morality, that anyone could feel that people sentenced to the death penalty could be rehabilitated.

Living in the UK, we live in a country where the death penalty was abolished and our system has suffered the recurring aftermath of this decision.

Offenders re-offend. In the UK the minimum sentence for murder is 15 years, and it has been seen in many cases that people who were once convicted have gone on to offend once more. I know I am talking about the UK, but I know that if we accept the fact that rehabilitation could succeed, you will fall into the same trap that the British have. Sure, every now and then a murderer CAN be successfully rehabilitated, but what about the others?

Would it not be better to put down all those proven guilty beyond doubt with hard evidence than to let them free and risk innocent people's lives? If a murderer does believe that he can be rehabilitated, then it is a tragedy that he must die, but he must.

He committed an atrocious act against the civilized world, why should he be given a second chance when his victim was not? Why should we risk another innocent dying when this man has already proven what kind of man he truly is? Put simply, I do not think those guilty of murder, especially multiple homicide, are truly psychologically capable of being rehabilitated, and those that are capable are too few and far between to be worth risking the lives of more innocents.

No, murderers cannot be rehabilitated. The vast majority are too flawed in some way to have any significant benefit from rehabilitative efforts. Taxpayer dollars are limited and it is important not to put resources in places where there is unlikely to be a benefit. It is more important to spend on children's programs and education than on individuals who are unlikely to change their ways. You can't just rehab someone into to not murder people like you can't fix mental illnesses like psychopaths and sociopaths.

They should be kept i. N jail and face a sentence of life. That way, If they plan to kill someone during their jail time, They wouldn't ever get the chance because it's been too long. To believe that murderers can be rehabilitated to become as normal as you or I is an absolute farce. All because some naive leftists wanted to give the guy another chance reformation after rehabilitation to prove himself.

Why does he deserve a chance at all? He has already murdered and destroyed the life of his victim and the lives of the family members! You want to give him another chance in society for what? To either murder again or prove that he won't?

For what? Why should he get this chance his victim won't? In the past, Murderers would be given the death penalty and not rewarded with further opportunities to kill again. The world today has gone mad as the leftist liberal agenda rages on at an all time high and someone's innocent little children will surely pay the high price for it.

The high recidivism statistics unfortunately also applies to rapists too. After the migrant crisis in Sweden, How many innocent small children have been raped and sodomized by imported migrants who rape because they come from a culture where raping children is normal paedophilia being normal in most Muslim countries.

In particular, men are twice as likely as women to believe perpetrators of sexual violence can change their ways. We can observe similar gaps across every other crime we asked about.