Full Description
This book brings together experts in the fields of criminology, computer science, sociology, police science, victimology, psychology, oral history, and systems analysis, focussing their eclectic knowledge on the study of serial murder. The contributors present the reader with a careful development of state-of-the-art theory and research on serial murder providing a firm analytical bases for future study and research by social scientists into this elusive phenomenon. The book provides a synthesis of current literature and research with in-depth analysis of incidence and prevalence estimates and the etiology of victimization. Students and scholars of all the social sciences will find Serial Murder: An Elusive Phenomenon a valuable reference tool.
Using case studies of serial murders, the contributors provide a micro-analysis of the phenomenon from both nomolithic and idiographic methodological perspectives. The book clearly presents the current law enforcement responses to serial murder and discusses the problem of linkage blindness, the inability of police to share information on unsolved murders. Finally, this study looks to the future of serial murder research and investigation. Each chapter is followed by a valuable reference section and the work concludes with a selected bibliography on serial murder.
Contents
Preface
A Critical Examination of the Phenomenon of Serial Murder
Serial Murder: A Synthesis of the Literature and Research by Steven A. Egger
The Darker Figure of Crime: The Serial Murder Enigma by Kenna Kiger
The Etiology of Victimization in Serial Murder: An Historical and Demographic Analysis by Eric W. Hickey
Dissociation, Psychopathy, and the Serial Murder by Harold Vetter
Those Who Kill, and Kill, and Kill, and Eventually are Caught
The Aftermath of the Yorkshire Ripper: The Response of the United Kingdom Police Service by Richard Doney
Investigating Serial Murder: The Case of Indiana's "Gay Murders" by David A. Ford
Henry Lee Lucas: Case Study of a Prolific Serial Killer by Steven A. Egger
Law Enforcements' Response to Serial Murder: Problems and Solutions
Linkage Blindness: A Systemic Myopia by Steven A. Egger
Taxonomy of Law Enforcement Responses to Serial Murder by Steven A. Egger
The Future: Investigation and Research
Future of Serial Murder Investigation by Steven A. Egger
An Agenda for Research of Serial Murder by Steven A. Egger
Selected Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index
