Typical ages of murderers compared to victims!

Do Me Good

It nearly always seems to be older people getting killed by younger people. More and more so in the news do I hear readings like "A 28 year old man was stabbed to death today in Limerick. A 25 year old man was arrested..." I've noticed that the age of the victim is often slightly older. What's up with that? I'll keep my wits about me as I get older.

Nodin

Do Me Good wrote: »

It nearly always seems to be older people getting killed by younger people. More and more so in the news do I hear readings like "A 28 year old man was stabbed to death today in Limerick. A 25 year old man was arrested..." I've noticed that the age of the victim is often slightly older. What's up with that? I'll keep my wits about me as I get older.

Young people = Evil. Its well known.

I guess not too many become murderous in their 50s or 60s. If you have a violent tendency, it's gonna come out early enough

Shannon757

Wonder why OP picked Limerick? No one ever gets killed there.

Muahahaha

Is that you Graham?

On another murder topic has anyone noticed an explosion of murder-suicides in Ireland over the last 5 years? There was a time this was almost unheard of in Ireland but lately there seems to be 3 or 4 every year.

Sh1tbag OToole

Muahahaha wrote: »

Is that you Graham?

On another murder topic has anyone noticed an explosion of murder-suicides in Ireland over the last 5 years? There was a time this was almost unheard of in Ireland but lately there seems to be 3 or 4 every year.

It's in-line with Ireland becoming part of a more dog-eat-dog Americanized world. Many years ago in the good old US of A you would have seen that trend picking up over there and now we're following that trend many years later. As the modern rat-race picks up pace you'll see more of this kind of sh1t.

Do Me Good

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

It's in-line with Ireland becoming part of a more dog-eat-dog Americanized world. Many years ago in the good old US of A you would have seen that trend picking up over there and now we're following that trend many years later. As the modern rat-race picks up pace you'll see more of this kind of sh1t.

Only a least they get decent sentences over there.

Here, for man slaughter you'd get the same time the yanks would get for shop lifting.

Muahahaha

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

It's in-line with Ireland becoming part of a more dog-eat-dog Americanized world. Many years ago in the good old US of A you would have seen that trend picking up over there and now we're following that trend many years later. As the modern rat-race picks up pace you'll see more of this kind of sh1t.

Yeah there's no doubt that murders commited in one country influence how murderers commit their crimes in another. AFAIR there is supposed to be a connection with the Columbine school massacre and the one in Dunblaine, Scotland. One crime influenced the other.

Victor

Young adult men (17-25) are risk-takers and do a disproportionate amount of killing, whether that is murder, manslaughter, suicide, war or otherwise. Their peers are often likely to be the victims.

We are also much more likely to be killed by friends or family than by strangers.

wakka12

Really? I have no evidence to back this up but I would have thought it was the opposite, I feel like its always young girls/women who are targeted by rapist murderers and serial killers

DEFTLEFTHAND

In Irish gangland the killers are usually males in their 20s. They prove themselves to the elders by carrying out hits. An established gangster type operating in serious organised crime will rarely get his hands dirty.

Vic_08

wakka12 wrote: »

Really? I have no evidence to back this up but I would have thought it was the opposite, I feel like its always young girls/women who are targeted by rapist murderers and serial killers

The most likely source of homicide or sexual violence against women is from their partners/husbands or family members particularly with children.

Stranger danger both against children and adults is vastly over estimated because of the widespread publicity of all attacks of this nature as well as it being a hugely popular plotline in all forms of entertainment.

Victor

wakka12 wrote: »

Really? I have no evidence to back this up but I would have thought it was the opposite, I feel like its always young girls/women who are targeted by rapist murderers and serial killers

Parts of this is because this is what the media wants to tell you, because that is what you want to hear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_white_woman_syndrome

LETHAL LADY

Deleted User wrote: »

I guess not too many become murderous in their 50s or 60s. If you have a violent tendency, it's gonna come out early enough

I watched the BBC documentary 'Love You to Death - A Year of Domestic Violence' yesterday. The documentary is about the murders of 86 women in the UK in 2013 at the hand of their partners.

I suppose what really surprised me was the age of some of the victims and those who murdered them. One women was in her 80's and a lot of the couples had been together for over 30 years.

I know that these cases had other factors involved, but you'd think that most people would mellow with age and look for the easier option rather than to do something so reckless.

NomadicGray

All the old killers are getting killed by the young ones so theres no old killers left to do the killing