Yes, if they stopped at defining it as killing 'x' amount of people in a minimum of 'x' amount of time, then fine. BUT, they try to make too many connections or whatever that just aren't there nor are they unique to 'serial killers'.
If you get your definitions off Wikipedia, of course certain parts are going to be suspect. "Serial Killer" has a thousand different definitions, wikipedia has just conglomorated them to give a general overall definition. And don't say you didn't get this off Wiki cuz I just looked at the Wikipedia definiton and you definitly did. Speaking as a psychology student...well, what I said above, basically.
Is it normal I think we need to throw out the term 'Serial Killer'?
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Yes, if they stopped at defining it as killing 'x' amount of people in a minimum of 'x' amount of time, then fine. BUT, they try to make too many connections or whatever that just aren't there nor are they unique to 'serial killers'.
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If you get your definitions off Wikipedia, of course certain parts are going to be suspect. "Serial Killer" has a thousand different definitions, wikipedia has just conglomorated them to give a general overall definition. And don't say you didn't get this off Wiki cuz I just looked at the Wikipedia definiton and you definitly did. Speaking as a psychology student...well, what I said above, basically.
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Actually, I got information from numerous sources, many from books before there was internet, let alone wikipedia.
Here's a link to the FBI, where you can read all about it, since the FBI is supposedly the expert here.
http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/serial-murder/serial-murder-1#two