Extreme Killing understanding serial and mass murder /
"Accessibly written, yet analytically rich, Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder, is renowned for its fascinating examination of historical and contemporary serial and mass murder. Authors and experts in the field, James Alan Fox, Jack Levin, and Emma Fridel, bring their years...
| Main Author: | Fox, James Alan, |
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| Other Authors: | Levin, Jack, 1941-, Fridel, Emma E., |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Los Angeles ; London ; New Delhi ; Singapore ; Washington, DC ; Melbourne :
SAGE,
[2024].
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| Physical Description: |
xix, 369 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Edition: | Fifth edition. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. Multiple murder. America's fascination with multiple murder
- Defining multiple murder
- Theories of multiple homicide
- Part II. Serial murder. An anatomy of a serial murder
- With deliberation and purpose
- Partners in murder
- Killing for company
- Fantasyland
- The making of a serial killer
- Nonsexual control
- Killing cults
- Catching serial killers
- Part III. Mass murder. Mass murder facts
- For love, money, or revenge
- Family annihilation
- Firing back
- Well-schooled in mass murder
- Fighting city hall
- Hate-motivated mass murder
- Terrorism as tactic
- Going berserk
- Weapons of mass (murder) destruction
- Part IV. Aftermath. Coping with tragedy
- Postscript.