| Edition |
Fifth edition. |
| Description |
xxii, 424 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 398-412) and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword -- Preface -- 1. Introduction : the phenomenon of serial murder -- Serial murder : fact and fiction -- Numbers and types of mass murders and serial killings in the United States -- Profile 1.1. Columbine High School Massacre, 1999 -- Mass murderer classifications -- Profile 1.2. Mark Barton, portrait of a mass murderer, 1999 -- Differences among mass, serial, and spree murderers -- Profile 1.3. Virginia Tech Massacre, 2007 -- Defining homicide, murder, and serial murder -- Profile 1.4. Gary Leon Ridgway, the Green River Killer, 1982-1998 -- Redefining serial murder -- San Antonio symposium -- Typologies of serial murder -- Methodology used in this book -- 2. Cultural development of monsters, demons, and evil -- Cults and the occult -- The notion of evil -- Profile 2.1. Josef Mengele, 1911-1979 -- When evil embraces good -- Profile 2.2. Gerard Schaefer Jr., evil for evil's sake, 1972-1973 -- When good embraces evil -- 3. Psychogenetics of serial murderers -- Psychobiology and biochemical theories of violent behavior -- Profile 3.1. Arthur John Shawcross, 1972-1990 -- Insanity : psycho-legal issues -- The M'Naughten Rule -- The Brawner Rule -- The Durham Rule -- Incompetency -- Mental disorders and personality disorders -- Dissociative disorders -- Psychoanalytic factors -- Profile 3.2. Eric Smith, 1993 -- Personality disorders -- Asperger's disorder and the DSM-IV -- Constructing the psychopath -- Dr. Robert Hare and psychopaths -- Differentiating the sociopath, psychopath, and primary psychopath -- Measuring criminal psychopathy -- Profile 3.3. Mr. Carter, a psychopath exposed -- |
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4. Social construction of serial murder -- Social structure theory -- Social class theory -- Social process theory -- Neutralization theory -- Social control theory -- Labeling theory -- The Macdonald Triad -- Family dynamics and the MacDonald Triad -- Animal cruelty -- Enuresis -- Fire-setting -- Profile 4.1 Portrait of a serial arsonist and pyromaniac -- Etiology of serial killing -- Trauma-control model of the serial killer -- Observations of a male serial murderer -- Facilitators -- Profile 4.2. Jeffrey Dahmer, 1978-1991 -- Cyclical nature of serial killing -- 5. Sexual predators, paraphilia, and murder -- Differentiating between sex offenders and sexual predators -- Sexual homicides and paraphilia -- Profile 5.1. Charles Albright, the Eye Ball Serial Killer, 1990-1991 -- A spectrum of paraphilia -- Factors in paraphilia -- Profile 5.2. The doctor rapist -- Profile 5.3. Armin Meiwes, the German Cannibal, 2001 -- Profile 5.4. An auto-erotic death -- Profile 5.5. Mary Kay Letourneau, child sex offender -- Profile 5.6. North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) -- Dynamics of rape and sexual assault -- Rapists typologies -- Profile 5.7. Melvin Carter, the College Terrace Rapist (Compensatory Rapist) -- Profile 5.8. John Jamelske, serial abductor and rapist -- Profile 5.9. The night caller -- Profile 5.10. The Stroker -- Profile 5.11. The burglar and his sexual fantasies -- Profile 5.12. Preying in public -- Paraphilia classifications -- Preparatory paraphilia -- Attack paraphilia -- Relational paraphilic attachment (RPA) -- Profile 5.13. Westley Allan Dodd, sadistic child killer -- Lust killers -- Profile 5.14. Theodore Robert Bundy, "Ted, " 1973-1978 -- Profile 5.15. John Edward Robinson, the "Slavemaster, " 1984-2000 -- Profile 5.16. Jerry Brudos, the trophy collector, 1968-1969 -- Paraphilic fantasy -- Uncensored exotics -- Signatures of sexual predators -- Profile 5.17. Cary Stayner, the Yosemite Park signature killer, 1999 -- |
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6. Healthcare killers -- Profile 6.1. John Riems, sexual predator, 1985-2008 -- Foreign healthcare providers who kill -- Profile 6.2. Dr. Harold F. Shipman, "The Jekyll of Hyde, " 1976-1998 -- The Yorker and Fields Studies -- Profile 6.3. Dr. Heinrich Gross, Am Spiegelgrund Klinik, Lebensunwertes Leben, 1940-1945 -- Care providers and serial murder -- Male "angels of death" -- Profile 6.4. Efren Saldivar, "Angel of Death, " 1988-1998 -- Profile 6.5. Donald Harvey, 1970-1987 -- Female care providers who kill -- Profile 6.6. Kristen Gilbert, 2000 -- Profile 6.7. Terri Rachals, 1985-1986 -- Profile 6.8. Genene Jones, 1978-1982 -- 7. The male serial murderer -- Emergence of male serial murderers -- Myths of serial murder -- African American serial killers -- Profile 7.1. Wayne B. Williams, 1980-1981 -- Profile 7.2. Chester D. Turner, 1978-1998 -- Mobility, stalking, and victimization -- Profile 7.3. Henry Louis Wallace, 1992-1994 -- Profile 7.4. Carlton Gary, 1977-1978 -- Profile 7.5. Calvin Jackson, 1973-1974 -- Profile 7.6. Three traveling serial killers -- Stalking -- Profile 7.7. Robert Joe Long, 1984 -- Site and nonsite stalking -- Cyberstalking -- Stalking fantasy -- Victims -- Profile 7.8. Edmund Emil Kemper III, 1964-1973 -- Offenders' backgrounds and occupations -- Profile 7.9. Albert Henry DeSalvo, 1962-1964 -- Profile 7.10. Dennis Lynn Rader, "The BTK Strangler, " 1974-1991 -- Profile 7.11. Robert Hansen, 1973-1983 -- Profile 7.12. Paul john Knowles, 1974 -- Disposition of serial killers -- |
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8. Team killers -- Identifying team killers -- Females as masterminds in serial-murder relationships -- Profile 8.1. Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, 1977-1978 -- Profile 8.2. Olga Rutterschmidt and Helen Golay, 1999-2005 -- Profile 8.3. Martha Beck and Ray Fernandez -- Profile 8.4. Tene Bimbo Gypsy Clan, 1984-1994 -- Profile 8.5. Alton Coleman and Debra D. Brown, 1984 -- Males as masterminds in serial-murder relationships -- Occupations of team serial killers -- Profile 8.6. Douglas D. Clark and Carol A. Bundy, 1980 -- Team killing and mobility -- Profile 8.7. Henry Lee Lucas and Otis Elwood Toole, 1976-1982 -- Ritualism, cults, and child victims -- Profile 8.8. Robin Gecht, Edward Spreitzer, and Andrew and Thomas Kokoraleis, 1981-1982 -- Victim selection -- Profile 8.9. Dean A. Corll, David O. Brooks, and Elmer Wayne Henley, 1970-1973 -- Methods and motives -- Offender history -- Profile 8.10. Leonard Lake and Charles Ng, 1983-1985 -- Profile 8.11. Gerald A. Gallego Jr. and Charlene Gallego, 1978-1980 -- Disposition of offenders -- 9. The female serial murderer -- Identifying female serial murderers -- Profile 9.1. Betty J. Neumar, "Killer Granny, " 1952-2007 -- Emergence of female serial murderers -- Profile 9.2. Aileen Carol Wuornos, 1989-1990 -- Victim selection -- Profile 9.3. Nannie Doss, the "Giggling Grandma, " 1925-1954 -- Methods and motives -- Profile 9.4. Christine Falling, 1980-1982 -- Psychopathology of female offenders -- Disposition of female offenders -- Summary -- 10. Victims -- Demographics of victimization in serial murder -- Victim facilitation -- Missing and murdered children -- Children as victims of serial murderers -- Luring children -- Agencies for missing, murdered, and exploited children -- Other specific victims of male serial murderers -- Women -- Prostitutes -- Gay men -- Profile 10.1. The Prostitute Murders, California, 2000-2001 -- The elderly -- Profile 10.2. Randy Kraft, the Southern California Strangler, 1972-1983 -- Profile 10.3. John Wayne Gacy, 1972-1978 -- Profile 10.4. Herb Baumeister, 1980-1996 -- Families -- Both men and women -- Profile 10.5. James P. Watson, 1910-1920 -- Profile 10.6. David Richard Berkowitz, 1976-1977 -- |
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11. Serial murder from a global perspective -- Beyond Jack the Ripper -- Profile 11.1. The Port Arthur Massacre, 1996 -- Global issues in serial murder -- Profile 11.2. Jack the Ripper, 1888 -- German serial killers -- Profile 11.3A. Fritz Haarmann, the Butcher of Hannover, 1919-1924 -- Profile 11.3B. Peter Kurten, the Vampire of Dusseldorf, 1883-1931 -- Assessing global data on serial murder -- Profile 11.4. Clifford Robert Olson, 1980-1981 -- Canadian serial killers -- Russian serial killers -- Profile 11.5. Robert "Willy" Pickton, operator of the Piggy Palace Good Times Society, 1983-2002 -- Profile 11.6. Andrei Chikatilo, 1978-1990 -- Profile 11.7. Alexander Pichushkin, the Chessboard Killer, 1992-2006 -- The Gorby Study -- Serial murder in Japan : the Aki Study -- Victims and duration -- Mobility -- Age and gender -- Team killers -- Profile 11.8. Kau Kobayashi, 1952-1960 -- Methods and motives -- Sexual activities -- Serial murder in South Africa -- The Investigative Psychology Unit of the Criminal Records and Forensic Science Services Division of the South African Police Service -- Profile 11.9. Stewart Wilken, 1990-1997 -- Muti murders in South Africa -- 12. Interviewing serial murderers -- Techniques and stumbling blocks -- Common problems in interviewing -- Empirical phenomenology -- An interview with a serial murderer -- Interviewing serial murderers -- Profile 12.1. Juan Chavez, the MacArthur Park Murderer, 1986-1989 -- Serial killer reflections -- 13. Profiling, apprehension, and disposition of serial killers -- Forensic science -- Profiling -- Types of profiling -- Problems in profiling -- Profile 13.1. Bruce Pardo, the Santa Claus Mass Murderer, 2008 -- NCAVC and VICAP -- Profile 13.2. John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo, the D.C. Snipers, 2002 -- The University of Tennessee Forensic Anthropology Center : The Body Farm -- The hunt for the Unabomber -- Unsolved murder cases -- Profile 13.3. Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber, 1978-1996 -- Disposition -- Sentencing -- Capital punishment -- Treatment -- Future issues and research -- Closing thoughts -- References -- Index. |
| Subject |
Serial murderers -- United States -- Psychology.
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Serial murderers -- Psychology.
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Serial murders -- United States.
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Serial murders.
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Murder victims -- United States.
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Murder victims.
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| ISBN |
9780495600817 |
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0495600814 |
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