Hickey, Eric W., author.
Boston, MA, USA : Cengage Learning, [2016]
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- Includes bibliography (pages 476-497) and index.
- 1. Introduction — Phenomenon of serial murder — Serial murder : fact and fiction — Myths of serial murder — Numbers and types of mass murders and serial killings in the United States — Profiles in modern mass murder in the United States — Dr. Amy Bishop, 2010 — Nidal M. Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter, 2009 — Mass murder classifications — Marcus Wesson, 2003 — Andrew Kehoe, America’s mass murderer of children : the Bath School Disaster, 1927 — Bifurcation in mass murder — Mark Barton, portrait of a mass murderer, 1999 — A sampling of bifurcated mass murders in the United States, 1927-2014 — Virginia Tech massacre, 2007 — Differences among mass, serial, and spree murderers — Defining homicide, murder, and serial murder — Gary Leon Ridgway, the Green River killer, 1982-1998 — Redefining serial murder — San Antonio Symposium — Typologies of serial murder — Elias Abuelaza, the serial stabber, 2010 — 2. Cultural development of monsters, demons, and evil — Cults and the occult — Ritualism, cults, and child victims — Hosanna Church Cult, 2005 — The notion of evil — Robin Gecht, Edward Spreitzer, and Andrew and Thomas Kokoraleis, 1981-1982 — Einsafzgruppen, 1941-1945 — Josef Mengele, 1943-1945 — When evil embraces good — Gerard Schaefer Jr., Evil for Evil’s Sake, 1972-1973 — When good embraces evil — 3. Psychopathology and biogenics of serial murderers — Psychobiology and biochemical theories of violent behavior — Arthur John Shawcross, 1972-1990 — Insanity : psycho-legal issues — The M’Naughten Rule — The Brawner Rule — The Durham Rule — Incompetency — Mental illnesses and personality disorders — Joseph Kallinger, the Shoemaker, 1974-1976 — Dissociative disorders — Edward Theodore Ed Gein, American psycho — Psychoanalytic factors — Eric Smith, 1993 — Personality disorders — Autism Spectrum Disorder and the DSM — Constructing and deconstructing the psychopath — Dr. Robert Hare and psychopaths — Exploring the psychopathy spectrum — Female psychopaths — Measuring crimina
- 7. The male serial murderer — Emergence of male serial murderers — African American serial killers — Christopher J. Dorner, 2013 — Wayne B. Williams, 1980-1981 — Chester D. Turner, 1978-1998 — Mobility, stalking, and victimization — Henry Louis Wallace, 1992-1994 — Carlton Gary, 1977-1978 — Calvin Jackson, 1973-1974 — Highway serial killers — Samuel Dixon, 200-2001 — Bruce Mendenhall, 1992-2007 — Robert Joe Long. 1984 — Stalking — Site and nonsite stalking — Cyberstalking — Stalking fantasy — Victims — Offenders’ backgrounds and occupations — Albert Henry DeSalvo, 1962-1964 — Dennis Lynn Rader, the BTK Strangler, 1974-1991 — Robert Hansen, 1973-1983 — Paul John Knowles, 1974 — Disposition of serial killers — 8. Team killers — William J. Bonin — Identifying team killers — Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, 1977-1978 — Females as masterminds in serial-murder relationships — Olga Rutterschmidt and Helen Golay, 1999-2005 — Martha Beck and Ray Fernandez, 1947-1949 — Tene Bimbo Gypsy Clan, 1984-1994 — Males as masterminds in serial-murder relationships — Alton Coleman and Debra D. Brown, 1984 — Occupations of team serial killers — Team killing and mobility k– Franc Cano and Steven Gordon, 2013-2014 — Douglas D. Clark and Carol A. Bundy, 1980 — Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Elwood Toole, 1976-1982 — Victim selection — Methods and motives — Dean A. Corll, David O. Brooks, and Elmer Wayne Henley, 1970-1973 — Offender history — Leonard Lake and Charles Ng, 1983-1985 — Gerald A. Gallego Jr. and Charlene (Williams) Gallego, 1978-1980 — Disposition of offenders — 9. The female serial murderer — Identifying female serial murderers — Megan Huntsman, serial baby killer, 1996-2006 — Betty J. Neumar, Killer Granny, 1952-2007 — Emergence of female serial murderers — Aileen Carol Wuornos, 1989-1990 — Victim selection — Nannie Doss, the Giggling Grandma, 1925-1954 — Methods and motives — Christine Falling, 1980-1982 — Disposition of female offenders — 10. Victims of serial m
Subjects:
- Serial murderers — United States.
- Serial murders — Psychology.
- Murder — United States — Psychology.
- Murder victims — United States.
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