According to Dr Lonnie Athens, an American criminologist, there is a pattern of growing violence among most dangerous criminals starting from childhood. When young, these individuals are often forced to submit to aggressive authority figures, such as fathers and caretakers, who mostly use violence or at least the threat of violence. As a result, the young child begins to believe that one can use violence to settle disputes and that it is a legitimate means of reaching one`s ends.

Later on, the child begins to rebel against the authority figure by becoming belligerent and resorting to violence, a stage called “Belligerency”. During the stage of “Performance”, the child experiments with violence and realizes that he attains success with provocation and obtains fear and even respect from others through his bullying. The final stage is “Virulence”, where the child has had successful encounters by using violence and hence believes that violence may be the best way of dealing with people and attaining one`s goals and objectives.

According to the“Macdonald Triad” the following three factors are often early indicative aspects of the serial killer personality, namely continuous bed-wetting at a later age, fire setting, and cruelty to small animals. If a young person has all three characteristics then they are likely to develop into serial killers at a later stage.

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