Elizabeth A. Gurian

Serial and Mass Murder (eBook, PDF)

Understanding Multicide through Offending Patterns, Explanations, and Outcomes

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book reframes the study of multicide (that is, serial and mass murder) to use objective measures, and aims to expand our understanding of multicide offending through descriptive and inferential statistical analyses of different homicide patterns of the offenders.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351656412
• Artikelnr.: 62457277

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth A. Gurian is an associate professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Norwich University. She is also the associate director of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Her research focuses on multicide offenders, including serial and mass murderers, lone actor terrorists, and mass shooters. In 2016, she was awarded an American Association of University Women publication grant for her work exploring serial murder adjudication and outcome patterns. She has published in several leading criminology journals, and she has discussed her work through media such as BBC Radio, VPR, WCAX, and the New York Times and CBS podcast, "Why Women Kill".

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Serial murder
1. Who are the serial killers?
2. Are there explanations for serial murder?
3. What happens after the murders end?
Part II: Mass murder
4. Who are the mass murderers?
5. Are there explanations for mass murder?
6. What's the aftermath?
Part III: Multicide
7. Comparing serial and mass murder
8. Comparing mass shooters and lone actor terrorists
9. Conclusions and future directions