英文摘要 |
The aims of the study were to explore the potential crime factors, the motive, and the life experience of an indiscriminate perpetrator using attribution theory. The narrative research method and semi-structured in-depth interview were conducted with a convicted offender who has convictions for crime of indiscriminate killing. The findings are discussed as follows, including the characteristics of the indiscriminate killing, the potential crime factors and the motive of the perpetrator, the life experience of the perpetrator, and the offender's attributions of his own killing behavior. First, the indiscriminate killing occurring in public locations can not be interrupted. Furthermore, the offender selects familiar locations to commit the killing behavior to increase the feeling of control. From the offender's perspective, potential victims may be meaningful symbolic and effortless when conducting the killing behavior. Second, the offendrer’s motive of the indiscriminate killing behavior focusing on the result of some benefit, such as death penalty, instead of injury or death cases. The factors underlying the indiscriminate killing behavior can be divided into the developmental factor and trigger factor from a systematic perspective. Third, the indiscriminate perpetrator reported experiencing adverse family relationship, school bullying, exploitation in the workplace, intimacy deficiency, and economic calamity, reducing the will of survival. Moreover, the offender had felt contradictory and worried about the judicial adjudication after committing the crime. Fourth, hostile and pessimistic attributional style has an effect on how the offender confronting the life, resulting in self-effacement, reduction in prosocial behavior, and killing behavior. From the attribution model, the offender's pessimistic attributional style resulted in a distorted cognition such like considering indiscriminate killing as only choice.Future suggestions for other researchers and prevention from discriminate killing based on Brantingham and Faust’s three-level crime prevention model was discussed. |