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International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
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Loneliness and Associated Violent Antisocial Behavior: Analysis of the Case Reports of Jeffrey Dahmer and Dennis Nilsen

Willem H. J. Martens

W. Kahn Institute of Theoretical Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Beatrixstraat 45, 3921BN Elst (Utrecht), The Netherlands

George B. Palermo

Center for Forensic Psychiatry and Risk Assessment, 1000 North Water Street, Milwaukee, WI 53202, USA

It can be theorized that loneliness plays a significant role in the development and continuation of violent, antisocial attitudes and behavior. Analysis of case reports of two serial killers, Dennis Nilsen and Jeffrey Dahmer, indicate that there is evidence for such a link. In this article, a list of significant correlates of loneliness and antisocial behavior is presented. This may be useful for the assessment of possible dangerousness and in the development of prevention and intervention programs. Suggestions are made for the adequate treatment of loneliness and correlated violent, antisocial behavior. A need is recognized for more research into the psychosocial, emotional, neurobiological, cultural, and ethnic determinants of loneliness and their correlation to specific antisocial and/or criminal behavior.

Key Words: loneliness • antisocial personality disorder • intervention • prevention • case reports

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 49, No. 3, 298-307 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0306624X05274898
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