Wednesday's mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, is among the mere 2 percent that are carried out by women. Police named 27-year-old Tashfeen Malik as one of the two shooters at the Inland Regional Center. She was later killed — along with another shooter, her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook — in a shootout with police. Despite the frightening regularity of such shootings, a woman committing this sort of crime is extremely rare. According to TIME, men commit 98 percent of mass shootings. But women do commit about 11 percent of all murders. So if not mass shootings, are there other trends that can shine some light on female murderers?
The first thing to know is that men commit so many more murders than women - 90 percent of them - that every kind of weapon is used much more by the guys. It’s true: men spill most of the blood in history books. And serial killers, specifically, are overwhelmingly male. During the past hundred years, fewer than ten percent of serial murderers were women—or so we think. (The records are far from immaculate. In 2007, an exhaustively researched book listed 140 known female serial killers.
To start with there aren't very many. According to statistics released by the Department of Justice, since 1980, the number of female murderers has halved, mirroring the decline in male killers. In 2008, only about 1.6 women committed a homicide out of every 100,000 people — not very many at all. In comparison, about 11.3 men per 100,000 carry out a homicide. Black women had the largest reduction in homicide offending rates of all groups measured starting in 1992. The drop was from 11 to 3 per 100,000.
Women — in a partial explanation of why women don't commit mass shootings — tend to know their victims, and they tend to murder just one person, not large groups. Only 11.9 percent of female murderers' victims are strangers. Some 41.5 percent of female murderers kill a significant other, be it a spouse, an ex-spouse, or someone they're dating. Another 16.7 percent kill another family member (and 7.5 percent murder a child!). Acquaintances round out the rest of the victims with 29.9 percent. Of all murders with multiple victims, women committed just 6.4 percent.
How they carry out the killings is different too. Guns are still used in a lot of cases, 39 percent of the time. But that is not as common as it is with men. Commonly quoted statistics show women make up a much larger percentage of murderers who use arson or poison to kill their victims than guns. Women disproportionately commit some 39.5 percent of all poisonings. That's because it's more uncommon for men to use poison as a means to kill — not because there are so many women using poison. Only about 2.5 percent of murders committed by women from 1999 to 2012 was by poison.
It seems as though female murderers will continue to be rare. Even though the rates of women being arrested are up from 2003 to 2012, nearly 3 percent, that's not the case for murder. Only 830 women were arrested in 2012 for murder and 'nonnegligent manslaughter' — a decrease of about 8.3 percent.
No matter the methods women use to commit murder, they are, by and large, not targeting groups of people and definitely not strangers. However Malik was brought into Wednesday's plot, she remains a statistical anomaly.
We only have 86 female killers from the US. Is a rare thing whena female serial killer comes up. Female serial killers tend tomurder men for material gain. The an analysis of the 86 femaleserial killers from the U.S., tells us that the victims tended tobe spouses, children or the elderly.
The prefered method for killing is poison but this is not theonly method. Shootings (used by 20%), suffocation (16%), stabbing(11%), and drowning (5%) were used by female serial killers. AileenWuornos is a totally different female serial killer. She killedstrangers instead of friends or family away from home.
Where can you find a list of the worst female serial killers?
Wikipedia serial killers by country. This lists both sexes so you will have to pick out the females as needed. ANSWER: Wilkipedia's list of female serial killers is woefully out of date. There are well over 600 known cases. The best (by far) introduction to the 'worst' female serial killers is: The World's Creepiest Female Serial Killers. (online)
Who is the best band between slipknot and killers in America?
SLIPKNOT !!! NO!!! THE KILLERS! THE KILLERS ARE WAAAAY BETTER DUDE!
What percentage of the world's population are serial killers?
With so many serial killers not identified, there can not be statistics showing the population of the world's serial killer. 76% of the world's serial killers are in America is a statistic based ongoing studies. The United States only has about seven percent of the world's population, but has been home to over 76% of its serial killers.
What percentage of serial killers are murdered in jail?
I think there are 4% of serial killers are murdered in jail
What is the percentage of all US serial killers?
The US has the highest ranking in serial killers. The US has 76% percent of all the serial killers in the world.
What is the star sign with the most serial killers?
The larger percentage of serial killers are born under the sign of Cancer.
What percentage of the world's serial killers operates in the US?
According to the FBI 86% of all serial killers are from the US.
How many female serial killers are there?
Serial killers are not described by number of kills, rather, by the method and psychological factors that went into the kills. For example, ssgt. Giunta in afganastan killed between 9& 13 people in a 20min. period of time. By your definition, we should have him executed. Instead we gave him the congressional medal of honor. Son of Sam killed the same number of people but he was a serial killer. Most female serial killers are…
Who is the most famous female serial killer?
That honor would go to Aileen Wuornos who was executed in Florida for the murder of at least 7 men. Wuornos is indeed famous, mostly because she was popular among feminists. Yet Elizabeth Bathory is more famous worldwide and was a much worse criminal (most of her hundreds of victims were female). Take a look at 'Female Serial Killers of 19th Century America' to get an idea of famous American female serial killers of the…
Serial killers who torture the most?
These killers are known as sadists or sadistic killers. The more the victim suffers the better these killers like it. Thank goodness the sadistic serial killer makes up only a small percentage of all serial murderers.
What are the release dates for America Undercover - 1986 Teen Killers A Second Chance?
America Undercover - 1986 Teen Killers A Second Chance was released on: USA: 9 September 1998
What is the female to male ratio worlwide?
What percentage of ninjas are female?
I know that females were ninjas, but it is impossible to know the percentage of ninjas were female.
What female serial killer is in Florida's death row?
All female serial killers in Florida death row, have been executed.
What Percentage of serial killers does Europe have?
America has the whopping majority of serial murder at between 80% to 90%. The rest are spread over the rest of the world, but mostly in industrialized countries such as Great Britain and western Europe.