Differentiating Mass, Spree, and Serial Killers: A Typological Analysis

Spree, Mass, and Serial Killers Student’s Name Institution Affiliation Instructor’s Name Course Code Date Mass, serial, and spree killers are differentiated by timing and number of killings. They are capable of the worst humanity occurrence and scary crimes. Mass, serial, and spree killers are different beasts and are harder to differentiate. Mass killers are people behind large-scale killings; An example is the Columbine Massacre. It involves large crowds at one place and at one time. Spree killers do not have cooling-off times between murders. They differ from mass killers in their performance; they kill people in different locations in a short time, i.e., several days. The spree killer's mission is part of a rapidly moving act. Serial killers commit a series of murders in a prolonged time- in a decade. According to (Edelstein, 2014), scholars have different attitudes towards multiple murders, spree, serial, and mass killings, some claiming they are one concept while some believe they are whole different sub-categories. The multiple murders were often put in one category, but over the years, scholars have discovered that the killings involve different motives, states of mind, and different operations modules. The different categories must be redefined since they are different phenomen