Topic > The Theory of Shame: The Milwaukee Monster by Jeffrey Dahmer

Jeffrey Dahmer also known as the Milwaukee Monster was one of those cases where most people would call him a "sick bastard", he put it away and threw away the key. He was a far from ordinary person who did heinous things to others, but I think in this case it's definitely the silent ones who need to be looked at. My initial reaction to Dahmer was that he seemed like that stereotypical boy that no one would ever think would become a serial killer and I had to agree with them because I thought he was too young to do the things he did. He seemed like the quiet boy next door who played online video games all day and never left the house, but all kinds of people are serial killers. Dahmer was portrayed as Although I mentioned that the Theory of Shame described some of Dahmer's actions, ultimately I believe he was a violent person who enjoyed killing his victims. The violence theory would be more suited to Dahmer because the theory states that the intentional act of aggression towards anything/physical with the intention of physically harming or committing an act that will result in harm to another person. Dahmer intended to physically harm his victims, would lure them to his apartment by subduing and/or drugging them, killing them, having sex with their corpses, dismembering their bodies, and keeping body parts to sexually satisfy him later. Dahmer genuinely enjoyed committing these crimes and had no remorse for committing them. Monsters have a past just like everyone else and I think that at some point in Dahmer's early life he developed an antisocial personality that led to his passion for necrophilia and dismemberment. Maybe someone tried to intervene and it didn't work because it was already too far gone. If Dahmer had an antisocial personality, I think he might have felt that killing people was the only way he could express himself because he hadn't learned properly. My aim is not to justify any of Dahmer's actions because I believe he knew right from wrong, my point is that monsters are not born and that even though Dahmer was very brutal and violent in his murders there was a reason other than the fact that he liked doing it. When Dahmer was captured, I think most people wrote him off in the sense that they had already decided he was the devil, so it didn't matter if he had a mental disorder, people wanted Dahmer to pay for what he did. I think monsters are created because the aggression that Dahmer possessed had to come from somewhere and I think that at some point in his life he developed these aggressive feelings and chose to take his aggression out on his victims. In conclusion though Dahmer committed terrible crimes and his actions