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This timely volume offers comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of serial homicide, which has been on the increase since the 1990's. It provides an understanding of these criminal acts and their perpetrators. The book uses a holistic approach and highlights accurate means of early identification and future risk. It is an invaluable resource for mental health professionals and all those who study and work with this criminal phenomenon.
Contents
Chapter 1. Editors' Introduction: Understanding Serial Homicide - Scope, Vision, and Structure.- Part I. Introduction to Serial Homicide.- Chapter 2. Definitions, Historical Perspectives, & Prevalence of Serial Homicide.- Chapter 3. Researching Serial Homicide: Methodological Frameworks, Constraints, and Emerging Trends.- Part II. Comparative Perspectives, Typologies, and Subtypes of Serial Homicide.- Chapter 4. Serial and Single-Victim Sexual Homicide Offenders: A Comparative Review.- Chapter 5. Sexual Versus Nonsexual Serial Homicide.- Chapter 6. Gendered Patterns in Serial Homicide: Female Offenders in Comparative Perspective .- Chapter 7. Serial Murder in Healthcare: A Distinct Subtype.- Chapter 8. Typologies of Serial Homicide Offenders.- Part III. Psychological and Biological Foundations.- Chapter 9. The Psychopathology in Serial Homicide .- Chapter 10. Biological/Neuroscience Explanations for Serial Homicide.- Chapter 11. Social Context: Family, Support Systems, and Early Life in the Making of Serial Killers.- Part IV. Criminal Careers, Victimology, and Crime Scene Behavior.- Chapter 12. The criminal career of serial (sexual) homicide offenders and the phenomenon of criminal escalation .- Chapter 13. Victimology of Serial Homicide: Understanding the Dynamics from Victim Selection to Criminal Investigation.- Chapter 14. Serial Murder Spatial Behavior: Data, Theory, and Application.- Chapter 15. Dismemberment and Mutilation in Serial Homicide Offenders.- Chapter 16. Trophy-Taking in Serial Homicide: Psychological Underpinnings and the PRIME Model.- Part V. Investigative Challenges and Case Linkage.- Chapter 17. Interviews with Serial Murderers: What is Revealed?.- Chapter 18. Evidence-Based Crime Linking: A Framework to Overcome Linkage Blindness.- Chapter 19. Working the Clock: Integrating Temporal Expression into Serial Homicide Analysis with VORTEX .- Chapter 20. Serial Homicide Cold Cases: Issues with Identifying and Linking Serial Homicide Offenses.- Chapter 21. Wrongful Convictions in Serial Homicide: Investigative Failures, Systemic Bias, and Paths to Reform.- Chapter 22. Detecting deception in serial homicide offenders.- Part VI. Legal and Criminal Justice Responses.- Chapter 23. The Adjudication of Serial Killers.- Chapter 24. Serial Murderers in Prison.- Chapter 25. From Understanding to Action: Future Agenda for Serial Homicide.
