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Serial Killers And Terrorism

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It is frightening having to conduct a study on certain people that have been bad to society. The reason for saying that is because there are certain studies that have committed horrible crimes where there were many deaths involved. Some of the studies I am referring to are serial killers and terrorists. I believe that individuals that have committed many terrible crimes will not have the ability to reason with anyone, because they believe their actions to be normal or that were meant to happen. When it comes to terrorists committing crimes the American Psychological Association says that they commit those crimes, because they “feel angry, alienated or disenfranchised, believe that their current political involvement does not give them

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