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Real-life monsters : a psychological examination of the serial murderer
Record details
- ISBN: 9798216136651
- ISBN: 1283549395
- ISBN: 9781283549394
- ISBN: 0313397856
- ISBN: 9780313397851
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiv, 193 pages) : illustrations
remote - Publisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, [2012]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-184) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Part 1. Development of a serial murderer -- Introduction: an identification of the offender -- Clinical diagnoses and serial killer traits -- Biology and its effect on violent behavior -- Environment, background, and personality -- Part 2. Toward an examination of a theory of violence -- Theoretical discussion and methodology -- Case studies: Andrei Chikatilo, Arthur Shawcross, Jeffrey Dahmer, Edmund Kemper, Anthony Sowell, Aileen Wuornos, Dennis Rader, Rodney Alcala -- Reflecting on case studies -- Theoretical analysis and development -- Conversation with a monster? |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Subject: | Serial murderers -- Psychology Criminal psychology Homicide -- psychology Criminal Psychology |
| Genre: | Case studies |
