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Further, they are subdivided into the following four categories:
Visionary -- they claim to have received orders from either God or Devil to kill
Missionary -- they consider it their duty to eliminate undesirable elements as prostitutes from society
Hedonistic -- consists of either lust killer or thrill killer who kills either for sex or simply for the thrill of being able to murder a person
Power/Control -- the killer is motivated by the sense of power that they enjoy by completely subjugating another fellow individual (Holmes and Deburger 1998)
Serial Murders as Contrasted to Homicides
A typical homicide in Australia consisted of a white male in his thirties killing his male acquaintance in a residential quarter with a knife as a consequence of major disagreement. (Mouzos and Houliaras 2006) However, serial killings in Australia bore an uncanny resemblance to serial murders in other continents. Generally, an unknown male murdered several female victims either by strangulation or stabbing in non-residential locations and a sexual element was also present in most of those serial killings.
Conclusion
However, chances of getting killed by a serial killer in Australia are still relatively lower as compared to other developed countries. There have been only 52 reported victims of serial killings in Australia during the seventeen year period under study but some researchers suggest slight modification of the definition of serial killings so as to apprehend many would be serial killers that are lying in wait for the vulnerable prey. (Hickey,...
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