Serial Murder (eBook, ePUB)

Modern Scientific Perspectives
Redaktion: Leyton, Elliott

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This title was first published in 2000: Few areas of criminal activity have sustained such widely held attention as serial murder. This volume charts the complete progress of academic work in this field, detailing the development from the early domination of psychiatric enquiries to the later proliferation of criminal justice studies into the darkest of human behaviours.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 632
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351767996
• Artikelnr.: 56840988

Autorenporträt

Elliott Leyton

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: The Study of Serial Murder: Cultural Overview:
Herostratus, Jean-Paul Sartre; Son of Cain or Son of Sam? The monster as
serial killer in Beowulf, Brian Meehan; Towards an historical sociology of
multiple murder, Elliott Leyton. Origins of the Impulse: A study of serial
murder, Constance McKenzie; Serial Murderers: early proposed development
model and typology, Nancy L. Ansevics and Harold E. Doweiko; Detective
magazines: pornography for the sexual sadist, Park Elliott Dietz, Bruce
Harry and Robert R. Hazelwood; Adolescents' motivations for viewing graphic
horror, Deirdre D. Johnston; Ideological homicide, R.S. Ratner.
Criminological Analysis: A murder 'wave': trends in American serial
homicide 1940-1990, Philip Jenkins; Serial murder in England 1940-1985,
Philip Jenkins; Are serial killers special?, David Canter, Christopher
Missen and Samantha Hodge; Multiple murder: a review, David M. Gresswell
and Clive R. Hollin; Assessment of PTSD symptoms in a community exposed to
serial murder, Michael J. Herkov and Monica Biernat. Psychiatric Diagnosis
and the Law: American psychiatry and the criminal: a historical review,
Seymour Halleck; The insanity plea: a futile defense for serial killers,
Anne C. Gresham; Contributions of psychiatric consultation in the
investigation of serial murder, John A. Liebert; The sexually sadistic
killer and his offenses, Park Elliott Dietz, Robert R. Hazelwood and Janet
Warren. Psychological Perspectives: A study of William Heirens, Foster
Kennedy, Harry R. Hoffman and William H. Haines; The Bianchi (L.A. Hillside
Strangler) case: sociopath or multiple personality?, John G. Watkins;
Difficulties diagnosing the multiple personality syndrome in a death
penalty case, Ralph B. Allison; On the differential diagnosis of multiple
personality in the forensic context, Martin T. Orne, David F. Dinges and
Emily Carota Orne; Towards a new methodology for making sense of case
material: an illustrative case involving attempted m