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Essay Instructions: Jeffrey Dahmer

Between 1987 and 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer committed sixteen murders in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Dahmer lured his first victim to his parents' abandoned home and killed him in 1978, but it was several more years before his true spree started. In the late 1980s, Dahmer targeted gay males, people who often expect harassment from the police and who thus try to avoid contact with them. He began picking up young homosexual or bisexual men in gay bars, offering them money to pose for photos or inviting them to his house to watch movies and drink beer. He would then spike his victims' drinks, and would either strangle or stab them to death. He lobotomized some of them before they died. Once they were dead, Dahmer would dismember them with a hacksaw, and often saved parts of their bodies to eat. Dahmer eventually admitted to the Milwaukee police that he had killed 16 people either in the city or in the nearby suburb. He was sentenced to serve 15 life terms in prison, but was murdered two years later by fellow inmate Christopher Scarver.



Your assignment is to consider Dahmer's behavior, i.e., serial murder, dismembering victims, and cannibalism. Using either a genetic or biochemical approach, write a 300-500 word response that provides plausible explanations for Dahmer's actions. Your answer should also identify what is not explained by that theoretical perspective.

Essay Instructions: Write an introduction and analyze the case of Jeffrey Dahmer as if you were a researcher. Analyze the case to identify specific psychological characteristics and patterns that might be inferred about the offender.

Essay Instructions: this is the start of my paper.
Forensic Psychology
A forensic psychologist is a psychologist that applies his/her expertise in the field to the criminal justice system. Forensic psychologists deal with criminals and are interested in how the event happened and why. The purpose of a forensic psychologist is to develop techniques and ways of bringing justice to those wrongly convicted, solve crimes by putting the pieces of the puzzle together, and using their work to prevent future crimes.
This report is an attempt to take you inside the minds of psychopathic criminals. The ones that will be mentioned in this report are Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Stephanie Wernick, Jeffrey Dahmer, and David Berkowitz.

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my teacher is requiring 10 PRIMARY sources and they have to be from psychology abstracts and SECONDARY sources can be books and and magazines. NO MORE than 3 internet sources are allowed.

the journals she gave us to use are:
american psychologist, contemporary psychology, chil development, journal of abnormal psychology, journal of applied psychology, etc.
It just has to be an original source as in professional journals or edited books.

THE SOURCES MUST BE WITHIN THE YEARS OR 2000-2007. HOWEVER CLASSICAL MATERIAL (FREUD, ERIKSON) CAN BE USED.

SHOULD BE 8 TO 10 PAGES IN LENGTH
MUST HAVE A COVER LETTER (APA STYLE)
MUST HAVE ABSTRACT
MUST BE IN APA
MUST HAVE THESIS

MY TOPIC WAS FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY AND MY SUBTOPIC (WHICH WE WERE ALLOWED TO CHOOSE) WAS INSIDE PSYCHOPATHIC CRIMES.

SO THE PAPER COULD REALLY BE ABOUT PSYCHOPATHS AND THE ROLE FORENSICS HAVE IN THE CASES.

please make sure my paper is in complete apa format, with a reference page title page and abstract