Crimes emblemáticos e psicopatia: a construção da imagem pública dos assassinos

Abstract

The main objective of this work is to analyze when and why the argument of psychopathy arises in emblematic crimes, in addition to understanding the relationships between the society, victims’ families, social movement activists, politicians and journalists, which would build the psychological facet of the murderer when fighting for justice. Also because I see that there is a considerable debate about what these people really are, as they are continually presented as criminals and feared due to their supposed aggressive tendencies, stemming from the excessive labeling of killers as psychopaths by the media and popular culture.In this way, I will demonstrate how murderers go through a process of identity deterioration, addressing the way in which criminals "become" psychopaths, and, from this, understand the way which these people are treated socially and legally.