ABSTRACT
This title was first published in 2000: Few areas of criminal activity have sustained such widely held attention as serial murder. This volume charts the complete progress of academic work in this field, detailing the development from the early domination of psychiatric enquiries to the later proliferation of criminal justice studies into the darkest of human behaviours.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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PART I: CULTURAL OVERVIEW
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PART II: ORIGINS OF THE IMPULSE
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PART III: CRIMINOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
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PART IV: PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS AND THE LAW
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PART V: PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
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PART VI: GENDER ISSUES
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PART VII: POLICING CONCERNS