Child abuse and aggressivity: the childhood of serial killer, spree killer and mass murderer

Abstract

This article aims at analysing the phenomenon of child abuse, the consequences that it may produce in the different evolutionary stages and the role it plays in the manifestation of aggressive behaviour in adulthood. Also, it examines the relationship between the different types of abuse suffered during childhood and the development of criminal phenomenologies such as serial killers, spree killers and mass murderers.