Psychological Explanations - Understanding Murder, Mass Murder - Causes and effects table in University Criminology


	Psychological Explanations - Understanding Murder, Mass Murder
	Causes Superman complex Desire for making a statement Desire to create chaos Family annihilators (Hudson 2008) - Breakdown of family and desire for revenge of their current or former partner Family annihilators - Depression Preoccupation with weaponry and violence History of mental health problems (psychopathy, depression, paranoid and antisocial behavioural disorder) Isolated individuals who had rarely established themselves in effective adult roles Dysfunctional family History of interpersonal violence	Effects Desire for making a statement typically of revenge or some real or imagined wrong Their way of dealing with the chaos they experience and putting it all behind themes to take charge and create their own form of madness and chaos
	Overall summary

Superman complex
Desire for making a statement
Desire to create chaos
Family annihilators (Hudson 2008) - Breakdown of family and desire for revenge of their current or former partner
Family annihilators - Depression
Preoccupation with weaponry and violence
History of mental health problems (psychopathy, depression, paranoid and antisocial behavioural disorder)
Isolated individuals who had rarely established themselves in effective adult roles
Dysfunctional family
History of interpersonal violence

Desire for making a statement typically of revenge or some real or imagined wrong
Their way of dealing with the chaos they experience and putting it all behind themes to take charge and create their own form of madness and chaos

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