Durkheim would say that because the powerful desires of serial killers are never fully satisfied, they are compelled to commit the act of murder again and again.

Alan Wells, Conflict Theory and Functionalism: Introductory Sociology Textbooks, 1928-1976, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 6, No. 4 (Jul., 1979), pp. 429-437 ...

Durkheim's functional and structural sociology is examined with an eye to the two structuralist modes of inquiry that it inspired, French structuralism and British structuralism. French structuralism ...

Durkheim would say that because the powerful desires of serial killers are never fully satisfied, they are compelled to commit the act of murder again and again.