Understanding Sexual Serial Killing

✍ Scribed by Frederick Toates, Olga Coschug-Toates

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 549
• Edition: New
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Why do some people engage in serial killing for sexual pleasure? This book considers the phenomenon of sexual serial killing from the perspective of motivation theory, as advanced in psychology and neuroscience. By examining biological, psychological and social determinants, it develops a model of sexual killing that integrates widely dispersed existing literature. The first part of the book reviews scientific data and theories, while the second part presents biographical sketches of 80 sexual killers and links their early development and later killing to current theoretical understanding. The book examines cases of serial killers from the USA, Western Europe, Iran, Australia and South Africa, and it also includes an account of killers from the USSR, made available to non-Russian speakers for the first time. Deliberately written to avoid jargon, Understanding Sexual Serial Killing is accessible to students, scholars and professionals across psychology, sociology, forensic science and law.

✦ Table of Contents

03.0_pp_iv_iv_Copyright_page
04.0_pp_v_vi_Dedication
05.0_pp_vii_xiv_Contents
06.0_pp_xv_xx_Preface
07.0_pp_1_180_The_Factors_That_Underlie_Lust_Killing
07.10_pp_137_146_Looking_for_a_Thrill
07.11_pp_147_165_Beyond_Conventional_Desire
07.12_pp_166_180_Can_It_Become_Addictive
07.1_pp_3_16_How_to_Gain_Understanding
07.2_pp_17_24_A_Focus_on_the_Individual
07.3_pp_25_39_States_of_Brain_and_Mind
07.4_pp_40_50_A_Focus_on_the_Context
07.5_pp_51_70_Ways_of_Explaining
07.6_pp_71_86_The_Motivation_Underlying_Serial_Lust_Killing
07.7_pp_87_101_Inhibition
07.8_pp_102_116_The_Making_of_a_Sexual_Serial_Killer
07.9_pp_117_136_Linking_Normality_to_Abnormality
08.0_pp_181_462_Biographical_Sketches
08.10_pp_303_313_Imprinting_on_Powerful_Events
08.11_pp_314_320_Living_in_Farmyard_Squalor
08.12_pp_321_338_Cross-Dressing
08.13_pp_339_354_Attachment-Linked_Killers
08.14_pp_355_367_A_Desire_for_Child_Victims
08.15_pp_368_374_Stress_and_Disorganization
08.16_pp_375_396_Problems_with_Sexual_Potency
08.17_pp_397_405_Paired_Killers
08.18_pp_406_434_Paired_Killers
08.19_pp_435_450_Drugs_and_Addiction_in_Focus
08.1_pp_183_197_Similarities_and_Differences
08.20_pp_451_462_More_Questions_than_Answers
08.2_pp_198_213_A_Focus_on_Males_in_the_Family
08.3_pp_214_219_A_Focus_on_the_Ex-Wife
08.4_pp_220_229_A_Focus_on_the_Mother
08.5_pp_230_239_A_Focus_on_the_Mother
08.6_pp_240_257_A_Focus_on_the_Mother
08.7_pp_258_271_A_Focus_on_Revenge
08.8_pp_272_288_Just_for_Being_Gay
08.9_pp_289_302_Fetishes_and_Partialisms
09.0_pp_463_480_Final_Word
09.1_pp_465_480_Bringing_Things_Together
10.0_pp_481_514_References
11.0_pp_515_528_Index