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Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives
John E. Douglas, Ann W. Burgess, Robert K. Ressler
- 234 pages
- English
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Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives
John E. Douglas, Ann W. Burgess, Robert K. Ressler
About This Book
Who are the men committing the rising number of serial homicides in the U.S. -- and why do they kill? The increase in these violent crimes over the past decade has created an urgent need for more and better information about these men: their crime scene patterns, violent acts, and above all, their motivations for committing these shocking and repetitive murders.This authoritative book represents the data, findings, and implications of a long-term F.B.I.-sponsored study of serial sex killers. Specially trained F.B.I. agents examined thirty-six convicted, incarcerated sexual murderers to build a valuable new bank of information which reveals the world of the serial sexual killer in both quantitative and qualitative detail. Data was obtained from official psychiatric and criminal records, court transcripts, and prison reports, as well as from extensive interviews with the offenders themselves.Featured in this book is detailed information on the F.B.I.'s recently developed Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (VICAP) and a sample of an actual VICAP Crime Analysis Report Form.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Study of Murder
- 2 Growing Up to Murder The Social Environment andFormative Events
- 3 Preoccupation with Murder Patterned Responses
- 4 Antecedent Behaviors and theAct of Murder
- 5 After the Murder
- 6 A Motivational Model for SexualHomicide
- 7 The National Center for the Analysisof Violent Crime
- 8 Crime Scene and ProfileCharacteristics of Organized andDisorganized Murderers
- 9 Criminal Profiling from Crime SceneAnalysis
- 10 The Role of Forensic Pathology inCriminal Profiling
- 11 Interviewing Convicted Murderers
- 12 The Police Artist and CompositeDrawings
- 13 The Victim’s Family and Its Responseto Trauma
- 14 Victims Lessons Learned forResponses to Sexual Violence
- 15 Murderers A Postscript
- VICAP
- Index
- About the Authors