Serial Killers and the Phenomenon of Serial Murder: A Student Textbook

Cover......Page 1
Copyright and publications details......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 5
About the Authors......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 10
The Author of the Foreword......Page 11
Foreword......Page 13
Introduction......Page 19
Themes and Issues......Page 20
Key Term — Coactivation......Page 21
Key Term — Family Annihilator......Page 23
Key Term — Munchausen Syndrome......Page 25
Key Term — Case Linkage......Page 26
Using this Textbook......Page 28
Revision......Page 29
What is Serial Murder?......Page 31
Murder and Homicide Defined......Page 32
Key Term — Mens Rea......Page 33
Key Term — Social Construction......Page 35
Some Various and Early Definitions of Serial Murder......Page 36
Dissenting Voices......Page 39
The Use of Serial Murder......Page 41
More Recent Definitions — Cooling-off?......Page 43
Other Definitional Issues to Consider......Page 44
Serial Killers Defined!......Page 45
Revision......Page 47
Theoretical Perspectives on Serial Murder......Page 49
Medical-Psychological — Genetic Inheritance and Personality......Page 52
Key Term — PCL-R......Page 57
The FBI and their “Blunt Little Tool”......Page 58
Key Term — Crime Scene Analysis: Organized/Disorganized......Page 61
The Structural Tradition......Page 63
Widening the analysis — Serial Murder in Britain......Page 65
Revision......Page 67
How it all Began: Jack the Ripper......Page 69
Key Term — Rendezvous Discipline......Page 71
Mary Ann Nichols — The First of the “Canonical Five”......Page 72
Four More Murders......Page 75
Jack the Ripper — A profile......Page 82
Eyewitness Testimony......Page 84
The Structural Tradition and Jack the Ripper......Page 87
Revision......Page 88
An Overview of British Serial Murder......Page 89
Key Term — Intrinsic/Extrinsic Motivation......Page 90
Some General Observations......Page 94
A History Lesson — The British Miracle?......Page 96
Key Term — Forensic Science......Page 99
Police Forces......Page 102
Not Just Waiting for War......Page 104
People Matter......Page 106
Revision......Page 111
Serial Murder and Occupational Choice......Page 113
Unemployed Serial Killers......Page 114
Key Terms — Instrumental and Expressive Crimes......Page 115
Occupations of British Serial Killers......Page 118
Healthcare......Page 119
Business......Page 121
Public and Personal Service......Page 124
Driving and Transitory Dependent Work......Page 125
Key Term — Linkage Blindness......Page 128
Revision......Page 130
Case Study: 
Peter Sutcliffe......Page 133
Key Term — Case Study......Page 134
Case Overview......Page 135
Occupational History......Page 137
Offending History......Page 138
Key Term — Crime Template......Page 139
Key Terms — Awareness and Activity Space......Page 143
Key Term — Rational Choice Theory......Page 148
Revision......Page 149
Introduction — Crime, Violence, Sex and Gender......Page 151
Box 1: British Female Serial Killers in the 20th-century......Page 152
Box 2: Feminine and Masculine Traits and Characteristics......Page 153
To Kill …......Page 154
Key Term — Social Divisions......Page 155
… and Kill Again......Page 156
Progressing the Study of Female Serial Killers — The ‘Institutional’ Approach......Page 163
Revision......Page 165
Introduction......Page 167
The Life and Crimes of Mary Ann......Page 168
What ‘Type’ of Serial Killer was Mary Ann?......Page 169
Mary Ann Cotton Through the Lens of the 19th-century Media......Page 170
Key Term — Medicalisation......Page 173
Institutional Understandings of Mary Ann Cotton......Page 178
Wife......Page 182
Mother......Page 183
Worker......Page 184
Christian......Page 186
Fraudster / Thief......Page 187
Murderer......Page 188
Mary Ann Cotton the Emancipatory Murderer?......Page 189
Revision......Page 190
Serial Killers and the Media......Page 193
Key Term — Mediatisation......Page 196
Crime and the News......Page 197
Key Term — Doubly Deviant......Page 199
Trevor Joseph Hardy......Page 200
Prime Time?......Page 205
Revision......Page 208
Conclusion......Page 211
Index......Page 213
Other titles concerning serial killers by David Wilson......Page 227