There are some myths on this topic, saying that there are only male serial killers and this is not the case. Although there are female serial killers, there is a very large difference between the number of male serial killers and the number of female serial killers. Some studies say that there is so much difference simply because of the hormones inside of females versus the hormones in males. According to studies done by Radford University and FGCU, from 1900 to 2013 there were 3,514 male serial killers and 356 female serial killers (Aamodt). These statistic represent serial killers inside the U.S. and International serial killers. Many different websites have a different number of the total amount of female serial killers but they are all in close proximity. The book Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters, Author Peter Vronsky says: “between 1800 and 1995….females — a total of 62 killers.”(Vronsky). It is clear that men take up the larger amount of serial killers, but why is this? Not many websites or books can explain exactly why this is the case, but one website had an explanation. The explanation stated that, “which can have markedly different effects on men and women – gender construction.”.(Hughes) Gender construction is the minor things we are taught as children. The fact that we give boys toy guns and girls flower dresses actually has an effect on how they act. According to many sources women are not born more caring than men but instead women get to use the emotion of compassion more often were as men use the emotion of anger and violence. So yes, it is the way people teach their children that cause more violence in men. Most likely there will always be more violence in men than women but we may never know.
Works Cited
Hughes, Ian. “Why Are Men More Likely to Be Violent than Women?”TheJournalie. N.p., 26 Feb. 2015. Web. 01 Nov. 2015.Vronsky, Peter. “Female Serial Killers: How Many?” Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters. New York: Berkley, 2007. N. pag. Print.
Aamodt, M. G. (2014, September 6). Serial killer statistics. Retrieved (insert date of retrieval) from http://maamodt.asp.radford.edu/serial killer information center/project description.htm
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