Serial murder : modern scientific perspectives

Author(s)

• Leyton, Elliott
• Chafe, Linda

Bibliographic Information

Serial murder : modern scientific perspectives

edited by Elliott Leyton ; with the assistance of Linda Chafe

（The international library of criminology, criminal justice and penology）

Ashgate, c2000

Note

Includes bibliographies and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Psychiatry held centre court in relation to studies into serial murder up to the 1980s. Since that time a more generalized and scholarly approach has been taken and this volume assesses current ways of researching and commenting upon serial murder.

Table of Contents

• Part 1 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, in "Hunting Humans - the Rise of the Modern Multiple Murderer", Elliott Leyton. Part 2 Origins of the impulse: a study of serial murder, Constance McKenzie
• serial murderers - early proposed developmental model and typology, Nancy L. Ansevics and Harold E. Doweiko
• detective magazines - pornogrpahy for the sexual sadist?, Park Elliott Dietz et al
• adolescents' motivations for viewing graphic horror, Diedre D. Johnston
• ideological homicide in Thomas O'Reilly-Flemming (ed) "Serial and Mass Murder: Theory, Research and Policy", R.S. Ratner. Part 3 Criminal analysis: a murder wave? trends in American serial homicide, Philip Jenkins
• serial murder in England 1940-1985, Philip Jenkins
• multiple murder - a review, David M. Gresswell
• assessment of PTSD symptoms in a community exposed to serial murder, Michael J. Herkov and Monica Biernat. Part 4 Psychiatric diagnosis and the law: American psychiatry and the criminal - an historical review, Seymour Halleck
• the insanity plea - a futile defence for serial killers, Anne Gresham
• contributions of psychiatric consultation in the investigation of serial murder, John A. Liebert
• the sexually sadistic criminal and his offences, Park Elliot Dietz et al. Part 5 Psychological perspectives: a study of William Heirens, Foster Kennedy et al
• the Bianchi (LA Hillside strangler) case - sociopath or multiple personality?, John G. Watkins
• difficulties diagnozing 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 et al
• towards a new methodology for making sense of case material - an illustrative case involving attempted multiple murder, David M. Gresswell and Clive R. Hollin. Part 6 Gender issues: Jack the Ripper and the myth of male violence, Judith R. Walkowitz
• female serial murderesses - a preliminary analysis, Belea T. Keeney and Kathleen M. Heide
• the sexual component of serial murder in Thomas O'Reilly-Flemming (ed) "Serial and Mass Murder: Theory, Research and Policy", Candice Skrapec
• feminist perspectives on serial murder - a critical analysis, Julei Cluff et al. Part 7 Policing concerns: the lust murderer, Robert R. Hazelwood anbd John E. Douglas
• rape and rape-murder - one offender and twelve victims, Robert K. Ressler et al
• serial killers and their victims -identifying patterns through crime scene analysis, Robert K. Ressler et al
• the presumptive role of fantasy in serial sexual homicide, Robert Alan Prentky et al.

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Details

• NCID: BA4750069X
• ISBN:
  • 1840144521
• LCCN: 99065075
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Aldershot
• Pages/Volumes: xxvii, 603 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 364.1523
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Serial murder
  • LCSH : Serial murderers -- Psychology
  • LCSH : Serial murders -- Case studies
  • LCSH : Serial murderers -- Psychology -- Case studies
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA22532470