| Description |
xi, 185 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1: Definition and description of lust homicide -- 2: Clinical definition and description of psychopathy -- 3: Clinical definition and description of sexual paraphilias and disorders -- 4: Herman Mudgett, aka H H Holmes (1860-1896) -- 5: Peter Kurten (1883-1931) -- 6: Earle Leonard Nelson (1897-1928) -- 7: Ed Gein (1906-1984) -- 8: Henry Lee Lucas (1936-2001) -- 9: Andrei Chikatilo (1936-1994) -- 10: Carroll Edward Cole (1938-1985) -- 11: Robert Hansen (1939- ) -- 12: Jerome Brudos (1939-2006) -- 13: John Wayne Gacy (1942-1994) -- 14: Dennis Nilsen (1945- ) -- 15: Ted Bundy (1946-1989) -- 16: John Norman Collins (1947- ) -- 17: Edmund Kemper (1948- ) -- 18: Hillside Stranglers: Angelo Buono (1934-2002) and Kenneth Bianchi (1951- ) -- 19: Bobby Joe Long (1953- ) -- 20: Dayton Leroy Rogers (1953- ) -- 21: Aileen "Lee" Wuornos (1956-2002) -- 22: Joel Rifkin (1959- ) -- 23: Jeffrey Dahmer (1960-1994) -- 24: Richard Ramirez (1960- ) -- 25: Lessons for future prevention -- Index. |
| Summary |
From the Publisher: In this pointed study of serial killers, internationally known Forensic Psychologist Duane Dobbert shows us how-even years before the crimes were committed-the perpetrators of lust homicides exhibited behaviors showing certain mental and sexual disorders which grew to fuel the horiffic murders. Dobbert's analysis, covering 13 killers from Herman Mudgett, who confessed to 27 murders in the late 1800s, to Jeffrey Dahmer, who killed 17 young men and boys between 1978 and 1991-looks at their early lives and development of Antisocial Personality Disorder, as well as sexual disorders including sexual sadism and necrophilia. Special attention is paid to early signs of these disorders that were missed, mishandled, minimized or ignored by professionals in law enforcement, education, health care and criminal justice. The author demonstrates how and why most serial murders are sexually motivated, and fueled by this combination of psychopathy and sexual disorder. Having a clear understanding of the precursor behaviors could benefit us by enabling prediction and prevention of such crimes, says Dobbert. He also addresses signs of psychopathy and sexual disorders that should send red flags up to any adult or parent looking to protect their loved ones from harm. Dobbert offers psychological and social history of each killer, from early life on, which molded each into an ultimate monster. Each of these killers have a unique psychological development, but all demonstrated early the patterned behavior of psychopathy and sexual disorder, explains Dobbert. |
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Sex crimes -- United States.
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Serial murderers -- United States -- Biography.
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Sex offenders -- United States.
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Serial murders -- United States -- Case studies.
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Psychosexual disorders.
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| ISBN |
9780313366215 hardcover : copy alkaline paper |
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0313366217 hardcover : copy alkaline paper |
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