How can we be saved from them? This is what the doctor of medical sciences, forensic psychologist Mikhail VINOGRADOV tells about.
- Where do the maniacs come from, who are they?
- A maniac is a patient with a pathology of the deep structures of the brain. He gets satisfaction from the process itself. As a rule, maniacs, having experienced their sadistic pleasure once, can no longer stop. Even knowing that they are being caught, they will kill again. Many people have tendencies towards sadomasochism, but normal people know how to regulate them, find an acceptable channel for their desires.
- That is, a murder committed "for the sake of" will necessarily entail a subsequent one?
- If the maniac is not stopped - yes. In my practice, there was a case when a fanatic managed to be neutralized after the very first episode. The young man killed his friend, buried the body, and cut off the head, brought it home and fried it over the stove. With this head he amused himself. They found him by accident: the militiamen questioned all the friends of the missing guy, and went to our hero. While colleagues were filling out the protocol, one of the employees decided to find out the source of the sweetish-burning smell. He went into the bedroom, threw back the blanket ... When the maniac realized that he had been exposed, he grabbed a knife and cut his throat from ear to ear. He was not allowed to die, and he did not cut himself deeply. Then, in conversations with psychiatrists, he shared two of the most powerful, pleasant memories: how he slept with his head, and how he cut his own throat.
- What can push such a person to the first crime?
- Often a maniac, the execution of innocent people, takes revenge for his grievances. For example, a few years ago in the south-west of Moscow there was a lady (among the maniacs there are also women) who brutally killed elderly men. When she was detained, she said that once at the entrance she was attacked and tried to rape just such a citizen.
In general, each such geek has his own favorite places and time of the murder, his own handwriting. So, the Bitsevsky maniac Pichuzhkin killed elderly men and inserted some objects, sticks into their smashed heads. Then, however, he got a taste and began to kill everyone who came to hand.
It is believed that the Krasnoyarsk maniac who rapes children was himself subjected to violence in childhood.
Sometimes the consciousness of a maniac distorts the experienced stress: for example, one of them, with whom I happened to work many years ago, killed only boys in white shirts and ironed red ties. It turned out that as a child, he saw a pioneer hit by a car. The picture shocked him, and over the years it suddenly became attractive and exciting.
Ukrainian murderer Onoprienko set out to lay out the cross with corpses. From eastern to western and from northern to southern borders of Ukraine. Several years after his arrest, he applied for a pardon. He was asked: "What are you going to do outside?" "Like what? - Onoprienko was surprised. - Kill. I have to finish my cross. ” The amateur chess player Pichuzhkin had an obsession: to kill 64 people - as many as the pieces are on the chessboard.
Maniacs strive for fame, are proud of themselves. Therefore, information about one of them may provoke the other, who wants to surpass the “colleague”, to become “even more terrible and bloody”.
- Is it possible to identify a maniac by his appearance?
- The only thing that sets them apart is that all accomplished maniacs from childhood enjoyed the torment of living beings. They cruelly dealt with kittens, birds, mocked weaker younger children. It was literally a physiological satisfaction that they experienced watching the agony, especially the agony of suffocation.
It is not easy to identify such criminals. They find them either by accident or as a result of their mistakes.
- Does the number of such ghouls change over the years?
- Recently there have been more maniacs. And, unfortunately, according to forecasts of psychiatrists, their number will only increase. First, the number of alcoholics and drug addicts is growing - it is their children who are often potential maniacs. Secondly, the Internet, computer games, films often cultivate cruelty and aggressiveness in children. While playing, the guys enjoy killing. While virtual. But you never know who will "jam" ...
To prevent these crimes, I propose to make psychodiagnostics of the personality compulsory for all people (like the medical examination once). Then you can recommend the person in advance some methods of treatment, stabilization. Human rights activists believe that psychodiagnostics violates human rights. But its absence violates the society's right to self-defense.
Tips for parents:
Don't leave your child alone, even for a minute. Meet him after school and class.
Chat with your child. Explain that in no case should you enter a staircase, take an elevator, or go anywhere with a stranger. You can not accept any treats from strangers.
Teach your child to properly attract the attention of passers-by. You need to shout something like: “Help! I do not know this person! I don’t want to go anywhere with him! ”

I read an interesting material about the Bitsevsky maniac. The article also highlights the problems of preventing serial killings in Russia. The text is large, but it is written competently and to the point. I decided to post it.

< История битцевского маньяка Александра Пичушкина, получившего пожизненный срок, ставит два серьезных вопроса. В какой момент его "упустили" - родители, школа, все общество, как сделать так, чтобы пичушкины больше не появлялись? И почему, коль уж маньяк появился, его кровавый путь не могут прервать годами, десятилетиями? В этом попытался разобраться корреспондент "Известий" Александр Андрюхин.

The relatives and friends of Alexander Pichushkin wonder how such a terrible monster grew out of an ordinary, obedient boy who was no different from his peers? He did little hooliganism, did not fight with anyone, was a conflict-free and shy child.

Why he became like this is a mystery to me, - his mother Natalya Pichushkina confessed to Izvestia. - I don't know at what stage I looked at my son.

However, the psychologists of the Institute. Serbskogo are sure that Natalya Edmundovna is disingenuous.

Invisible Man

We have already drawn the readers' attention to the fact that all maniacs have one thing in common: a difficult childhood (see Izvestia, September 5, 2007). Childhood, saturated with loneliness, uselessness and even hatred of relatives for them. Pichushkin's grandfather and father were alcoholics. In 1973, when the boy was 9 months old, his father left the family. The mother married a second time, and gave her son to his grandfather. The grandson of his grandfather soon got tired of it, and he, under the pretext that he was bursting, assigned him to a speech therapy boarding school. To say that life was hard for him in the boarding school means to say nothing. Among aggressive children from dysfunctional families (in the boarding school there were mostly such), he closed himself off and completely went into his fantasies.

When Sasha Pichushkin came home on weekends, the holiday also did not work. He saw that all the love and attention of this house belonged to his younger sister - stepfather, from his stepfather. Outwardly, Sasha remained a loving and obedient boy. But did he justify his mother and grandfather in his soul? He wanted to please his loved ones, and sometimes he even succeeded. Once, when Sasha became older, his mother bought him a moped. He went for a drive, but an hour later he returned beaten. And without a moped.

However, there is one more circumstance that could affect the psyche of Pichushkin. When he was 3 years old, he fell off a swing and was admitted to the hospital with a head injury. It was after this that he began to confuse hissing sounds and at school even in writing instead of "w" he wrote "s". According to the theory of the famous psychiatrist Alexander Bukhanovsky (it was he who at one time figured out Chikatilo), people with sadistic inclinations in the past had head injuries. If parts of the brain in the frontal and temporal parts die off, a person becomes extremely aggressive. The temporal region is responsible for worldview, morality, ethics, and the frontal region is responsible for braking.

However, the psychologists of the Institute. Serbski believe that the environment still more influenced the formation of Pichushkin's personality.

In the footsteps of an idol

Growing up, Pichushkin changed before our eyes. From a downtrodden toddler, he turns into an aggressive teenager. Pupils of elementary grades complained to teachers that they were beaten by high school students, but especially atrocities Pichushkin. The teachers did not believe: "It cannot be! The quietest, the most obedient, the nicest ..."

And he really was like that, ”psychologist Mikhail Vinogradov, a member of the Pichushkin examination commission, told Izvestia. - And Chikatilo was an exemplary family man and an excellent teacher at school. But in the family and at school - one thing, and on the street - another. Both outside the home were extremely cruel. During the examination I was shown a video taken by one of Pichushkin's comrades. There he is fourteen years old. The unbelted teenager showed his peers how to kill. He grabbed some little boy by the legs and began to intimidate that he would break his head. At the same time, his gestures and facial expressions were a typical sadist.

From the age of fifteen, the mother and teachers began to notice that the quiet Sasha began to have terrible fits of rage. But neither the one nor the other had the idea of ​​taking the teenager to the doctor.

In the construction vocational school-66, the future killer studied to be a carpenter. Here Pichushkin ceased to be an invisible man and tried with all his might to stand out. He pretended to be a superman - even bought army boots with high lacing. Demonstratively courted the girls, but their relationship did not go further than that. Perhaps even then male weakness affected, and this, of course, became one of the factors in the mutation of his character. Pichushkin even began to write poetry, but this, like everyone else, caused only a hail of ridicule. To ingratiate himself with fellow students, Pichushkin easily lent. But he immediately demanded a receipt: "I am leaving this life voluntarily, because it is meaningless." The boys easily gave him such receipts, making fun of his threats. "Why do you need it?" they asked. Pichushkin explained that if the comrade does not return the debt, he will kill him, and the police will consider it suicide.

The turning point in the life of the future maniac was the army conscription. "They'll take them away. I don't mind," he said to his mother. But a psychiatrist from the medical board sent him for examination at the hospital. Kashchenko.

It was after the hospital that something broke in him, - recalls Natalya Pichushkina. “I don’t know what they did to him there. Maybe something was injected. He himself did not say anything. But he came back from there, somehow not like that.

Pichushkin was found unfit for combat due to psychopathy. The mother was warned that the disease would progress, the young man needed a more thorough examination and, possibly, treatment. But the mother did not believe the doctors. After the hospital, Pichushkin began to swing hard. I got a job as a loader in a store and was polite and efficient there. Probably, even then a plan of future murders was formed in his head, and he was often found in the back room when he furiously tore at empty boxes with a knife. Like his father and grandfather, Pichushkin began to drink. This did not bring him joy - he threw several times, again starting to swing, but he broke down. When I went into a binge, I did not crawl to the apartment. He fell at the entrance and waited for his mother to return from work and drag him into the house.

The case was completed by the trial of Chikatilo. Pichushkin collected newspaper clippings, wore plaid shirts, in which his idol wore. When in 1992 the maniac was sentenced to death, calling him the bloodiest of serial killers, Pichushkin flew into a rage and told his friends that he was in fact the bloodiest killer. The friends rolled with laughter. Pichushkin flew into a rage and on the same day suggested to Mikhail Odiychuk: "Let's start killing too, like Chikatilo!" The friend replied: "Come on!" - and laughed. Pichushkin realized that even a close friend did not take him seriously. A few days later, he strangled Odiychuk in the forest. This was the beginning of the bloody path of the Bitsa maniac, which was stopped only 15 years later.

Experts are sure that the transformation of Pichushkin into an inhuman can and should have been stopped even in childhood. All that was required was the attention of parents, teachers and educators.

What came out of him is natural, ”says psychologist Mikhail Vinogradov. - Youthful aggression is the result of childhood grievances. And again, no one paid attention to this, although everyone saw that something was wrong. After Pichushkin was examined in the hospital, he definitely needed to be treated. But the mother did not consent to this.

It is noteworthy that Pichushkin believes in the afterlife and is convinced that Chikatilo is watching him from the other world and rejoices at his "successes". And the killer also believes that when he moves to another world, his victims will gather around him and worship him as a god.

To catch maniacs you need to catch

Psychiatrists who examined Pichushkin after his arrest admitted that the maniac turned out to be a limited person, with the level of thinking of a 14-year-old spoiled boy.

It is an illusion that maniacs are smart, resourceful and elusive, ”a specialist from the commission told Izvestia. “They are all limited and underdeveloped. The manifestation of anger is revenge for weakness and for hurt inflicted in childhood. Pichushkin is no exception. He turned out to be even more cowardly than others - he killed homeless people and drunks, whom he pumped up with alcohol and who could not resist.

So why couldn't they catch Pichushkin for so long? Izvestia has already written in detail about a whole chain of episodes when it would seem inevitably to be captured (see Izvestia on October 30, 2007). But to catch, you have to catch! Horror: there was no "law enforcement officer" who guessed to compare the number of bodies taken out by the sewage system (and there were 29 of them!) And the number of people who disappeared in the neighboring area. In addition, criminologists did not thoroughly examine the bodies and wrote in the conclusions that the head injuries in those caught from the river may have been received from a fall from a blow on a curb. Because of this, no criminal cases were initiated.

Fatal were the actions of the district police officer Kalashnikov, who persuaded Marina Viricheva, who survived after Pichushkin's attack, to hide what had happened. Sorry for the cynicism, but it sounds something like this: saved, honey? Survived? A terrible maniac? Well, now go back with God, through the same forest.

A criminal case has been opened against Kalashnikov, he will be tried. But is it correct and far-sighted to admit only his guilt in the fact that Pichushkin has been free for so long?

And the fact that the existence of a serial killer in law enforcement agencies was recognized only when he himself began to leave identification marks (for the stupid and lazy) after about the 35th victim. Before that, there were only a few unsolved murders.

In the case of Pichushkin, the whole system crashed. Starting from the coordination of actions between divisions and ending with the act of the district police officer Kalashnikov. After all, he was responsible for the reporting of the police and for his comrades: he did not want to let his home area, which would receive another "hang-up" on its balance sheet.

Okay, in the lessons of the Bitsa maniac, we will not re-educate the entire police. But there is a real prospect: without the creation of special units, the task of which is to study and predict the behavior of a maniac, a breakthrough cannot be achieved. Because there are no guarantees that among the thousands of unsolved cases throughout Russia there are no similar "serial" murders. And the question of creating such units, of creating a system for preventing chains of murders has been raised for a long time.

Serial killers officially appeared in the USSR in the mid-1970s. At the same time, a wave of serial killings swept over the United States. The Americans create a department of behaviorism (from the English -behavior) under the FBI. It was headed by renowned psychologist John Douglas - he was "written off" for the image of Jack Crawford, Clarissa Sterling's boss in the movie "The Silence of the Lambs." The department made rapid progress: serial killer David Carpenter was caught thanks to the "psychoprofile method". Behind him are many others. Now the department of behavior studies has reached such heights that its employees can compose not only a psychological portrait of the killer, but also describe his appearance quite accurately.

And what about us? No centralized system for capturing maniacs has ever been formed. The Research Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is instructed to study them, but they are still limited to collecting newspaper clippings on the topic. In 1992, the Main Directorate of Criminal Investigation of Russia, looking at the successes of overseas colleagues, tried to centralize departments for the capture of serial killers and even created a program to develop search psychological portraits of criminals. In 1994, it cheerfully reported to the country that the Criminal Investigation Department was armed with the "Violence" and "Dossier" automated systems. In addition, the automated information retrieval system "Monster", which is supposed to recreate the appearance of a maniac, has entered service.

But the introduction of these systems did not bring any serious results. Maniacs are caught by investigators and opera "on the ground" without any science.

Now there are not even individual investigators who would be engaged in purely serial murders, ”former senior investigator of the criminal investigation department, Maria Chubarova, explains to Izvestia. - Each investigator of the "murder" department has so many things to do that he does not know which one to take on. Only if he sees that the murders are similar, he unites the cases into one, and the management is already deciding whether or not to qualify the murders as a series. If seriality is clearly seen, then the information goes to all divisions, up to the Main Directorate of Criminal Investigation. But you can notice the similarities within the same ATS. It is already problematic to get information on similar murders from the neighboring area. There is no common database. And to solve such murders, you need access not only to all "criminal" archives, but also to the medical records of all psychiatric clinics.

In the Ministry of Internal Affairs, it seems, everyone is aware of this. For the third year already, the creation of a unified information and telecommunications data bank of search, forensic and fingerprint records is underway. It is assumed that every policeman, wherever he is, will be able to obtain systematized data at any time. Maybe this will help to identify connections that are not currently available to them.

The police are more afraid than the perverts

But to blame only the law enforcement agencies for the fact that Pichushkin walked free for so long is a big delusion.

Sometimes we have to release obvious criminals, because we cannot find witnesses, - complains to Izvestia in the Department of Internal Affairs of the North-Western District of the capital. - Two months ago, on Demyan Bedny Street, we detained a pedophile. And the children helped to catch him. He pestered them behind the garages with obscene proposals. The children took it off on a mobile phone and brought the picture to the police. We took it. But now we cannot find a single witness. Parents, under pain of a belt, forbade the children to testify. Do not try - they will drag you in!

In the United States, no one considers it shameful to seek help from the population, - argue in the Department of Criminal Intelligence of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. - There, if one person breaks the law, and another reports it to the police, it is not considered snitching. A person who disrupts the order is regarded as inconvenient. And serial killers are caught by the whole world.

This idea is absolutely commonplace. But at the trial it suddenly turned out: some of Pichushkin's neighbors guessed that the murders of old people in Bitsevsky Park were the work of his hands. One of the witnesses said at the trial: after the disappearance of Fedorov's neighbor, they said at the entrance that he was most likely killed by Pichushkin.

When he and Pichushkin were heading into the forest, they came across Sister Fedorova, who later told everyone about it. Including the police, - said the witness.

And one episode generally makes you shudder. Pichushkin's 31-year-old neighbor Konstantin Polikarpov was also attacked by a maniac. He managed to survive. But he lost his memory. However, his neighbors believe that Konstantin is disingenuous.

He remembered everything, ”one of the witnesses assured me. - I was only afraid to inform the police. Pichushkin would not have been imprisoned anyway, but he would have smashed his head.

If Polikarpov had "been remembered", more than forty lives could have been saved. If Pichushkin's neighbors had told the police about their suspicions, even more could have been saved. Yes, passive, cowardly people. But, in all honesty, we would not go to the police either. Not because this is not our business, but out of fear of stumbling upon the district police officer Kalashnikov, who does not want to understand "unfounded suspicions." It's a vicious circle. But it is necessary to tear it, so as not to pay with blood and lives.

Serial murder statistics were closed "so as not to worry the population"

Most of all maniacs in the United States. Over the past hundred years, 86 people have been punished there. In second place is England - 28 maniacs. The third place is shared by Germany and Australia: 10 murderers each were convicted. Until recently, statistics on serial murders were kept in Russia. It is known that until 1998, on average, 20-27 criminal cases per year were brought up for serial murders. However, by 2002, 205 criminal cases had already been initiated, and in 2003 - 350. After that, the statistics became closed. So it was decided at a meeting in the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 2003. It turns out, for our own good - with the wording: "In order not to disturb the population."

Preliminary hearings were held in the Moscow City Court in the case of Alexander Pichushkin, a native of Moscow, accused of 49 murders and three attempts on his life. Almost all of them were committed on the territory of Bitsa Park in 1992-2006, which is why the accused received the nickname Bitsa Maniac. Meanwhile, in Evpatoria, two murderers of women - a local resident and a homeless person - were detained. But the Evpatorians are not sure that these are the maniacs and are waiting for new corpses.

Preliminary hearings were held in the Moscow City Court in the case of Alexander Pichushkin, a native of Moscow, accused of 49 murders and three attempts on his life. Almost all of them were committed on the territory of Bitsa Park in 1992-2006, which is why the accused received the nickname Bitsa Maniac. Meanwhile, in Evpatoria, two murderers of women - a local resident and a homeless person - were detained. But the Evpatorians are not sure that these are the maniacs and are waiting for new corpses. In the meantime, the topic of maniacism becomes, unfortunately, too urgent ...

The rating of the most famous serials is regularly updated. "Brand" is the never caught Jack the Ripper, who in the summer of 1888 kept the whole of London in fear, despite the fact that he hunted exclusively for prostitutes, and only seven prostitutes became his victims. Hundreds of articles, dozens of books have been written on this one, films have been made, and independent investigations have been carried out. At least a dozen people were seriously considered suspects, including an Irish sea captain, a London butcher, a Russian physician, respectable artist Walter Seeker, Alice in Wonderland author Lewis Carroll, and even Queen Victoria's grandson the Duke of Clarence.

Charles Manson, successfully caught and still serving his life sentence, as such was not a maniac. He is the founder and leader of the youth fraternal community Family. In 1969, some members of the Family committed a series of brutal murders. The loudest and bloodiest was the murder of Sharon Tate, the pregnant wife of director Roman Polanski. Manson himself still denies his guilt and sculpts clay figurines in his cell.

Harold Shipman. Doctor Death. Killed for 23 years. During this time, he sent 215 people to the next world: mostly elderly people, his patients. In 2004 he committed suicide by hanging himself on the sheets in his cell.

Andrey Chikatilo, a native of the Sumy region. He killed and tormented his victims (mostly boys) terribly. Sentenced to death for 52 intentional murders. Received the nickname of a maniac from the forest belt. Chikatilo's son Yuri served two times for criminal offenses. Including - for torture.

Anatoly Onoprienko has killed more than 50 people over the years of wandering around Ukraine. Cold-bloodedly, ruthlessly and most often completely senselessly, he destroyed entire families. In connection with the moratorium on the death penalty introduced in Ukraine, he is serving a life sentence in Zhytomyr Prison No. 8. Onoprienko sits in a solitary confinement cell with an area of ​​eight square meters. Reads books: science fiction, detective stories and adventure. Relatives do not support relations with him. The state spends 17 dollars a month on food for Onoprienko ...

Sergey Tkach is the so-called “Pavlograd maniac”. Has committed murders since 1981. Arrested in 2005. On his account there were more than 70 corpses. It is noteworthy that for all 25 years the police did not suspect the series, and in each individual case they were looking for different criminals. Often mistakenly arresting the wrong suspects. Sentenced to life imprisonment.

Ruslan Khamarov. From May 2002 to September 2003, a former police officer committed 18 premeditated murders, including 11 women. Nicknamed "Berdyansk maniac". Sentenced two years ago to life imprisonment.

Sergey Dovzhenko. Former policeman from Mariupol. Made 19 murders. Also sentenced to life imprisonment a year ago.

Andrey Yurkin. Mordovian maniac, murderer and rapist. The total number of victims is unknown. It is believed that there are about 15. On July 22, 1996, the Supreme Court of Mordovia sentenced him to death, but the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, recognizing the guilt of the murderer as proven, replaced the death penalty with 15 years in prison. The most incomprehensible and egregious example of the "kind-heartedness" of judges.

Alexander Pichushkin. "Bitsevsky maniac". Charged with 49 murders and three attempted murders. The case is now being considered in a Moscow court with a jury in the open. The court appointed the selection of the collegium for September 13.

Viktor Sayenko and Igor Suprunyuk. Alexander Ganzha - Dnepropetrovsk majors who killed 19 people for fun. Are under investigation.

The above examples are by no means an exhaustive list of modern maniacs. In total, their number is in the hundreds, if not thousands. According to media reports, in recent years, the world has undergone a real invasion of serials. If earlier these were individual people with unhealthy shifts, now they are ordinary citizens, like Dnepropetrovsk youths who beat to death several people a day and even ripped open the belly of one of the victims - a pregnant woman.

How can we be saved from them? Mikhail Vinogradov, a Russian forensic psychologist, doctor of medical sciences, believes that a maniac is a patient with a pathology of the deep structures of the brain. He gets satisfaction from the process itself. As a rule, maniacs, having experienced their sadistic pleasure once, can no longer stop. Even knowing that they are being caught, they will kill again. Many people have tendencies towards sadomasochism, but normal people know how to regulate them, find an acceptable channel for their desires.

In his opinion, the maniac, the execution of innocent people, takes revenge for his grievances. For example, a few years ago in the south-west of Moscow there was a lady (among the maniacs there are also women) who brutally killed elderly men. When she was detained, she said that once at the entrance she was attacked and tried to rape just such a citizen.

In general, each such geek has his own favorite places and time of the murder, his own handwriting. So, the above-mentioned Bitsevsky maniac Pichuzhkin killed elderly men and inserted some objects, sticks into their smashed heads. Then, however, he got a taste and began to kill everyone who came to hand. “Sometimes the mind of a maniac is distorted by the stress experienced,” says Vinogradov, “one of the killers I worked with many years ago killed only boys in white shirts and ironed red ties. It turned out that as a child, he saw a pioneer hit by a car. The picture shocked him, and over the years it suddenly became attractive and exciting.

However, there is another problem. All maniacs are vain. As a rule, these are people who have failed in any area, secretly dreaming of fame. Even if it's about the glory of the murderers. In violence, they not only get physical pleasure (up to orgasms), but also relish their strength. Paradoxically, many of them accept the arrests with joy, realizing that now a lot will be written and talked about.

Indeed, the details of the attacks of maniacs are diligently savoring the yellow press, and there are no countries left where respectable citizens, especially women and children, could feel completely safe. This thesis is especially vividly confirmed by the "Dnipropetrovsk phenomenon" - ordinary prosperous guys, without the typical complexes of a "failed loner", become maniacs of a new generation.

Today television is becoming the actual educator of the younger generation. By the number of scenes of violence, TV channels are simply tempered. But it is known that in adolescence, a person is very susceptible to what he sees. Influence of children by early enlightenment on all forbidden topics also affects.

At the same time, in the traditions of all times and peoples, it was accepted that the child was not initiated into topics of intimate life in general, especially by adults, but only warned. Natural modesty and shyness were welcomed in man in every possible way. Especially this topic was sought to "bypass" in conversations with the child, his parents and educators. In this regard, all the "forbidden" topics outside of marriage, a person was initially associated either with something not subject to public display, or as a sinful manifestation. Thus, the prerequisites were created for the formation of sexuality in the right direction: when a child's interest in the opposite sex began to awaken, the very "taboo" of this topic forced him to rigidly control his feelings and, if possible, not go "beyond".

Not surprisingly, in "traditional society" maniacs were rare. Among some peoples living in a traditional society, it is still believed that any sex outside of marriage is vicious in itself, and "those who have lost their chastity" before marriage (by the way, of both sexes) are subject to abstraction and condemnation, not to mention any perverts and maniacs.

However, in the so-called civilized society, there are no taboo topics left. Moreover, if for England of the century before last, prostitutes who were killed by Jack the Ripper were a symbol of "licentiousness", then for modern maniacs these are ordinary respectable women. They believe that all "women are equally vicious." Therefore, they CAN be killed.

In addition, in a traditional society, any person, even pathological inclinations, is associated with many kinship, blood and other ties with people of normal orientation and normal worldview. Network structures of perverts, as a rule, appear already in the information society.

After all, earlier the same homosexuals or pedophiles and other representatives of the sexual minority could not communicate freely, or it was difficult for them. A person who, revealing his unconventional sexual inclinations, is immediately considered an outcast, and he was treated with caution. Now a homosexual can live happily in society without attracting special attention to himself among neighbors, colleagues and even relatives. "Blue" - yes, blue ". But to hell with them! Human rights are paramount.

We do not argue with the last postulate, but the problem is that the deeper the liberalism, the more the taboo is lifted, the more urgent is the danger of the appearance of maniacs.

The birth of the next serial is extremely difficult, almost impossible to keep track of. Therefore, it is easy to miss the moment when the perverted psyche of such a person begins to incline him to criminal actions.

It has been noticed that, as a rule, exposed maniacs are largely hidden people who kept little contact with their relatives, "carried everything in themselves", were not sincere with others, but were often brought up on bloody films and TV shows. Some have even imitated famous horror movie heroes.

In addition, as a rule, maniacs are characterized by high self-esteem about their talents and painful oppressed pride. Not being able to realize themselves in any sphere, they begin to “mania”, and the very resonance from the crimes they have committed gives them pleasure. However, we have already spoken about this.

How to deal with maniacs? Unfortunately, police measures will not help here. And the fault here is not the "elusiveness" of the maniacs, but the fact that a corresponding background has been created in society, all taboos have been removed, murder is seen as a game: computer, cinematic, real.

There is another side of the coin, which is not customary to talk about. Sometimes victims of violence provoke aggression towards themselves by their behavior. And again - these are, as a rule, persons mentally unstable, wanting "something hotter." And the demand, of course, gives rise to "supply".

A typical example: in one of the Western countries (I don't remember which one) women who had been subjected to violent violence were interviewed. And more than half of them could not clearly explain why and for what reason they ended up in the place where the violence took place. That is, in a peculiar way, victims and maniacs are looking for each other. Moreover, the victims of maniacs themselves are sometimes something like gambling masochists who find a special charm by temptating fate. True, until then, until they fall into the clutches of the serial.

Instructions

Childhood psychological trauma. Socialization of the individual begins with the family. If at the initial stages of formation the child finds himself in a negative environment, his development is going wrong. An inferiority complex most often develops in a child due to the fact that parents demand a lot from him. They want to raise a child prodigy, but the baby does not live up to expectations. He is constantly punished, scolded, shouted. At school, he becomes the object of ridicule, as he is afraid to answer the teacher and remains silent. All this gives rise to hatred of people in him. He finds a way to take revenge on the offenders through violence. Later, already an adult maniac simply cannot stop, starting to kill everyone who does not like him.

Problems with the opposite sex. The main factor shaping the idea of ​​sex is associated with the first experiences in this area. If they fail, it leaves an imprint on a lifetime. Many maniacs experienced difficulties in communicating with the opposite sex, which led them first to a state of embarrassment and indignation, and then gave rise to rage and a desire for revenge. If a person was sexually abused in adolescence, it is possible that in the future he will try this model on his future partners. So, there is a possibility that he will begin to enjoy, repeating the actions that were once performed on him.

"R-complex". There is a theory that people become maniacs because of the different structure of the brain. Paleopsychologists say that the mind controls the primitive brain. For some people, the latter gets out of control and begins to direct the actions of a person. Then the individual acquires the motives of the behavior of the great ape and ceases to moderate his anger, pouring it out on those around him.

Physical injury. Speaking about physiology, it is important to note that a person who was previously completely normal can become a maniac. He could get a brain injury, damage one of his zones, which are responsible for the correct perception of reality. Most maniacs lack the instinct of self-preservation, fear, aversion to blood. They are like two-year-olds stuck at this stage, ready to smash and break. When it comes to physical trauma, it is worth mentioning that external deformity, however small, can sometimes also indicate a person's propensity for cruelty. He was probably teased and humiliated for his lack, as a result of which his self-esteem fell, and the desire to assert himself through others increased.

Extraordinary imagination. Talented and creative people often become maniacs. They are looking for ways to expand their consciousness, trying to get to the bottom of what is happening. For them, a person is like the mechanism of a clock that needs to be disassembled to see what is inside. Most of the maniacs were excellent artists, musicians, and connoisseurs of fine cuisine.