英文摘要 |
The aims of the study were to explore the related factors, the motivation, and the life experience of the indiscriminate perpetrator via the 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 murder. The findings are discussed as follows, including the characteristics of the indiscriminate murder, the related factors and the motivation of the perpetrator, the life experience of the perpetrator, and the offender's attributions of his own killing behavior. First, the indiscriminate murder occurring in public locations can be avoided to be interrupted. Furthermore, the offenders usually select familiar locations to commit the killing behavior to increase the feeling of control. From the offender's perspective, the selected victim may be meaningful symbolic and may be effortless when committing the killing behavior. Second, the motivation of the indiscriminate killing behavior focus on the result of some benefit, such as death penalty, instead of causing injury or death. 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 work place, intimacy deficiency, and economic calamity which reduced the will of survival. Moreover, the offender had felt contradictory and worried about the judicial adjudication after committing the killing behavior. Fourth, hostile and pessimistic attributional style affect how the offender confront the life and 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 the indiscriminate killing behavior was a“no choice”action. Future suggestion for prevention the discriminate murder based on Brantingham and Faust’s three-level crime prevention model was discussed. |