Serial Killers and the Phenomenon of Serial Murder : a Student Textbook / David Wilson, Elizabeth Yardley and Adam Lynes ; with a foreword by Steve Hall.

A superbly targeted resource for those learning about serial killings. Serial Killers and the Phenomenon of Serial Murder examines and analyses some of the best known (as well as lesser) cases from English criminal history, ancient and modern.

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Main Authors: Wilson, David (Author), Yardley, Elizabeth (Author), Lynes, Adam (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hook, Hampshire, United Kingdom : Waterside Press, 2015.
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505 0 |a Cover -- Copyright and publications details -- CONTENTS -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgements -- The Author of the Foreword -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Themes and Issues -- Key Term -- Coactivation -- Key Term -- Family Annihilator -- Why Study Serial Killers? -- Key Term -- Munchausen Syndrome -- Key Term -- Case Linkage -- Using this Textbook -- Revision -- What is Serial Murder? -- Murder and Homicide Defined -- Key Term -- Mens Rea -- Key Term -- Social Construction -- Some Various and Early Definitions of Serial Murder -- Dissenting Voices -- The Use of Serial Murder -- More Recent Definitions -- Cooling-off? -- Other Definitional Issues to Consider -- Serial Killers Defined! -- Revision -- Theoretical Perspectives on Serial Murder -- Key Term -- Positivism -- Medical-Psychological -- Genetic Inheritance and Personality -- Key Term -- PCL-R -- The FBI and their "Blunt Little Tool" -- Key Term -- Crime Scene Analysis: Organized/Disorganized -- The Structural Tradition -- Widening the analysis -- Serial Murder in Britain -- Revision -- How it all Began: Jack the Ripper -- Key Term -- Rendezvous Discipline -- Mary Ann Nichols -- The First of the "Canonical Five" -- Four More Murders -- Jack the Ripper -- A profile -- Eyewitness Testimony -- The Structural Tradition and Jack the Ripper -- Revision -- An Overview of British Serial Murder -- Key Term -- Intrinsic/Extrinsic Motivation -- Some General Observations -- A History Lesson -- The British Miracle? -- "There are people who say corpses don't talk, but indeed they do" -- Key Term -- Forensic Science -- Police Forces -- Not Just Waiting for War -- People Matter -- Revision -- Serial Murder and Occupational Choice -- Unemployed Serial Killers -- Key Terms -- Instrumental and Expressive Crimes -- Employed Serial Killers -- Occupations of British Serial Killers -- Healthcare -- Business. 
505 8 |a Public and Personal Service -- Driving and Transitory Dependent Work -- Key Term -- Linkage Blindness -- Revision -- Case Study: Peter Sutcliffe -- Key Term -- Case Study -- Case Overview -- Occupational History -- Offending History -- Peter Sutcliffe -- A Case Study of Serial Murder -- Key Term -- Crime Template -- Key Terms -- Awareness and Activity Space -- Key Term -- Rational Choice Theory -- Revision -- The Female Serial Killer -- Introduction -- Crime, Violence, Sex and Gender -- Box 1: British Female Serial Killers in the 20th-century -- Box 2: Feminine and Masculine Traits and Characteristics -- Key Term -- Gendered -- To Kill ... -- Key Term -- Social Divisions -- ... and Kill Again -- Progressing the Study of Female Serial Killers -- The 'Institutional' Approach -- Revision -- Mary Ann Cotton -- Introduction -- The Life and Crimes of Mary Ann -- What 'Type' of Serial Killer was Mary Ann? -- Mary Ann Cotton Through the Lens of the 19th-century Media -- "But surely there was something wrong with her?" Medical Explanations for Mary Ann Cotton -- Key Term -- Medicalisation -- Institutional Understandings of Mary Ann Cotton -- Wife -- Mother -- Worker -- Christian -- Fraudster / Thief -- Murderer -- Mary Ann Cotton the Emancipatory Murderer? -- Revision -- Serial Killers and the Media -- Key Term -- Mediatisation -- Crime and the News -- Key Term -- Doubly Deviant -- Trevor Joseph Hardy -- Becoming Unseen -- Prime Time? -- Revision -- Conclusion -- Index -- Other titles concerning serial killers by David Wilson. 
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