ABSTRACT
This chapter explores perpetrator representation as a theoretical social construct and the various human sources that participate in constructing the perpetrator's multifaceted representation following the event of killing. It provides the theoretical conceptualisation of representation through modelling and illustrates the utility of the model through the Jubilee Soprano and Jack Drummond cases. The function of this modelling is twofold: it charts the way the perpetrator is represented as a person by parties directly or indirectly involved in the conflict, and it charts representations of the event of killing. When Erving Goffman theorised about the presentation of the individual in daily activities, he was essentially writing about a multilayered representation of the individual in various social contexts. Implicit also in the meaning of perspectival or perspective are temporal and spatial progressions of time and space, which impact on the degree of representation. The representation of the event or perpetrator differs in each account from different individuals involved in the event.
