Rivista di Criminologia, Vittimologia e Sicurezza (Jul 2016)

Serial killer: il database mondiale

  • Gaetano parente

DOI
https://doi.org/10.14664/rcvs/625
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 2
pp. 66 – 81

Abstract

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The complex and multisided study of serial killers is partly made difficult by the current level of progress that has led these deviant people to evolve in relation to the aspects of shrewdness (concerning the staging) and mobility. Despite the important work of some scholars who proposed important theories, all this shows that, concerning serial murders, it is still particularly frequent not to pay attention to links among homicides committed by the same person but in different parts of the world. It is therefore crucial to develop a worldwide database that allows all police forces to access information collected on crime scenes of murders which are particularly absurd and committed without any apparent reason. It will then be up to the profiler, through ad hoc and technologically advanced tools, to collect this information on the crime scene that would be made available to all police forces thanks to the worldwide database.