everydayger.blogg.se - Percentage of serial killers by gender

When it comes to age, we can definitely say that no age is excluded. For black victims, numbers are almost equal, and as for white victims, there are more female victims than male. You can see that when it comes the Hispanic and Asian victims, both have higher male victims. Mike Aamodt Radford University/FGCU Serial Killer Database

Serial Killers Victims By Race and Gender Source: Dr. Mike Aamodt Radford University/FGCU Serial Killer Databaseīut if we look at the data starting first with the race and then by gender, the breakdown looks like this: Serial Killer Victims By Gender & Race Source: Dr. When we look at the data available and combine these two characteristics: gender and race, the breakdown looks like this:

Mike Aamodt Radford University/FGCU Serial Killer Database Serial Killer Victims By Gender Source: Dr. You can see that per total, though it is a popular belief that women are the ones mostly targeted by serial killers, the numbers are actually almost the same.

counts of the number of cases resulting in female and male victims (i.e., counts of the number of offenders who killed females, males, or both)īased on Dr Aamodt’s research, studying known serial killers and victims, you can see bellow a pie breakdown of number of victims by gender.

Historically, victim gender has been examined in two different ways: Source: Radford University/FGCU Serial Killer Database Bellow you can see the breakdown of serial killer victims by race for the last century and only United States as researched by Dr Aamodt from Radford University.

However, research shows that serial killers target every race, although white victims have a much higher percentage.

We often hear about the most famous serial killers (i.e Ted Bundy, Golden State Killer, Green River Killer, Jeffrey Dahmer etc) which even if they had a very diverse victim typology, the victims’ race was white. What is easy to extract is of course race, gender and age. One of the most extensive research is done by Dr Aamodt, M. There are extensive articles and researches done on the victim typology. Some motivated by hate, revenge, childhood trauma and so many other reasons. We know that a serial killer is a person who commits a series of unlawful killings of two or more victim, in separate events, often with no apparent motive and typically following a characteristic, predictable behaviour pattern.īut what do we know about their victims? How does a serial killer select his victims? This question is a very broad one as each serial killer selects his victims differently.