Sherman from the outskirts of Atlanta when he attacks the Yankees on Bald Hill. The attack failed, and Sherman tightened his hold on Atlanta. Confederate President Jefferson Davis had appointed Hood On July 22, , a massive parade held in San Francisco, California, to celebrate Preparedness Day, in anticipation of the United States entrance into World War I, is disrupted by the explosion of a suitcase bomb, which kills 10 bystanders and wounds 40 more.
By the summer of Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. Great Britain. Cold War. World War II. Sign Up. Roaring Twenties. Art, Literature, and Film History. Kevin Haggerty and Ariane Ellerbrok examine the cultural and historical context of serial killing. The study of serial killers has been dominated by an individualised focus on studying the biography of offenders and the causes of their behaviour. Popular representations of Jeffrey Dahmer, Harold Shipman, John Wayne Gacy and other notorious figures emphasise the sociopathic tendencies of the lone serial killer, presented in accounts that accentuate how assorted personality traits and risk factors ostensibly contribute to their otherwise unfathomable behaviour.
While this emphasis on personal biography lends itself to much needed psychological analysis, the cumulative effect of such accounts is that serial killing can appear a-historical and a-cultural, as though such predispositions might manifest themselves in identical ways irrespective of context. In fact, serial killing is intimately tied to its broader social and historical setting, something that is particularly apparent when such killing is considered in relation to a series of broad historical changes that have occurred over approximately the past — years, commonly associated with the rise of modernity.
So, while throughout human history there have probably always been individuals who engaged in serial predation, in previous eras it was not possible for an individual to be a serial killer. Serial killing is a distinctly modern phenomenon, a product of relatively recent social and cultural conditions to which criminologists can provide fresh insight by accentuating the broad institutional frameworks, motivations, and opportunity structures within which serial killing occurs Haggerty, This definition is accepted by both police and academic experts and therefore provides a useful frame of reference.
Unfortunately, it also narrows the analysis of such crimes, as it fails to incorporate many of the familiar although not inevitable characteristics of serial killing. These include such things as the diverse influences of the mass media on serial killers as well as their tendency to select victims from particular walks of life.
Attending to these and other factors can provide insight into the broader social and historical contexts that constitute the structural preconditions for such acts. Here we briefly identify three aspects of serial killing that are often taken for granted, but that are intimately tied to the emergence of serial murder in its contemporary guise. These include the rise of a society of strangers, the development of a culture of celebrity, and cultural frameworks of denigration and marginalisation.
Mass urbanisation is a distinctive characteristic of the modern era, something that has profoundly altered the nature of human relationships by virtue of generating an unprecedented degree of anonymity. In pre-modern societies individuals knew one another by name, often having intimate knowledge of their neighbour's family history, daily routines and personal predilections. Strangers were rarely encountered, and when encountered were the subject of rumour and suspicion.
The average medieval citizen might have only met strangers during the course of their entire life Braudy, , a number markedly low by contemporary standards, where one could confront hundreds of strangers simply on the daily commute to work. The rise of capitalism and related processes of mass migration to urban centres resulted in individuals being immersed in a sea of strangers Nock, This development also proved to be a key precondition for the emergence of serial murder, given that a defining attribute of serial killers is that they prey on strangers something that distinguishes them from the vast majority of homicides, which typically involve some form of prior relationship between killer and victim.
It was just three weeks later that the year-old committed his first murder. He seized the opportunity to act on the dark thoughts that had been growing in his mind. But when Hicks decided to leave, Dahmer hit him in the back of the head with a 10 lb.
Dahmer then dissected, dissolved, pulverized, and scattered the now imperceptible remains throughout his back yard, and later admitted to killing him simply because he wanted Hicks to stay. Nine years would pass before he killed again. Dahmer attended college that fall but dropped out due to his alcoholism.
After that his father forced him to enlist in the army, where he served as a combat medic in Germany from to However, he never kicked the habit and was discharged that spring, moving back home to Ohio. After his drinking continued to cause problems, his father sent him to live with his grandmother in West Allis, Wisconsin. By he was frequenting gay bathhouses, where he would drug men and rape them as they lay unconscious.
Although he was arrested twice for incidents of indecent exposure in and , he only faced probation and was not charged for the rapes. Steven Tuomi was his second victim, killed in September of He later stated that he had no memory of actually murdering Tuomi, implying that he had committed the crime on some sort of blacked out impulse.
The killings occurred sporadically after Tuomi, with two victims in , one in , and four in He continued to lure unsuspecting men from bars or solicited prostitutes, whom he then drugged, raped, and strangled. During this period, Dahmer was arrested for an incident at his job at the Ambrosia Chocolate Factory, where he drugged and sexually fondled a year-old boy.
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