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 Sherman Library  HV6049 .B67 2012    AVAILABLE  
Author Borgeson, Kevin.
Title Serial offenders : theory and practice / editors Kevin Borgeson, Kristen Kuehnle.
Edition First edition.
OCLC 667874235
ISBN 9780763777302
0763777307
Publisher Sudbury, Mass. : Jones & Bartlett Learning, [2012]
©2012
Description xii, 316 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
LC Subject heading/s Recidivists.
Recidivism.
Murder in mass media.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-292) and indexes.
Contents 1. Why study serial offenders? -- Fear of crime -- Problems of generalizing -- Investigation -- 2. Normalcy of the sadistic serial killer -- Lack of empathy -- Compartmentalization and dehumanization -- Need for power -- 3. Serial rape -- Defining rape -- Defining serial rape -- Typologies of serial rapists -- Investigating serial rape -- Criminal profiling and linkage blindness -- 4. Adult sexual offenders: an overview -- The "typical" offender -- Adult sexual offenders with adult victims -- Adult sex offenders with child victims -- Rehabilitation -- Recidivism -- Difficulties with convicting sex offenders -- The Internet and childhood sexual offending -- 5. Cyber "pedophiles:" a behavioral perspective -- Paraphilias and sexual ritual behavior -- The distinction between a "pedophile" and a child molester -- Typology of sex offenders -- The motivation continuum -- Computer offenders -- Recognizing preferential sex offenders -- "Expert" search warrants -- Staleness of probable cause -- "Concerned citizens" assisting law enforcement -- 6. The status of serial stalking: persons, processes, and palliatives -- What is stalking? -- The nature of stalking -- Characteristics of stalking behavior -- Why do stalkers stalk? -- The characteristics of stalkers and their victims -- Outcomes of stalking -- System responses --
7. Serial arson -- Defining arson -- Serial arson -- Motivations -- Pyromania -- Other factors -- Juveniles -- 8. Muti-murder: murder for human body parts -- Types of traditional healers in South Africa -- Defining Muti murder -- Sacrificial murder or Muti murder? -- Historic context -- Epidemiology -- The offenders -- The victims -- Body parts and their uses -- What crimes can the offenders be charged with? -- 9. Criminal profiling -- History -- Jack the Ripper -- The Lindbergh kidnapping -- Adolph Hitler -- The Mad Bomber -- Inductive/deductive analysis -- Types of profiling -- Offender profiling: a proposed definition -- the use of criminal profiling in South Africa -- 10. The use of a linkage analysis as an investigative tool and evidential material in serial offenses -- What is linkage analysis? -- Why use linkage analysis? -- What does the research say? Is linking possible? -- Information required to compile a linkage analysis -- Factors that can influence a signature or linkage analysis -- Legal principles under which linkage evidence is admissible -- Case example: the Newcastle serial murders -- Case example: the Quarry serial murders -- 11. The missing missing: toward a quantification of serial murder victimization in the United States -- Doing the math -- Missing persons as uncounted serial murder victims -- Quantifying the missing -- The missing missing -- Unidentified dead -- Misidentified and elsewhere classified dead -- 12. Targeting the serial offender: t ask force structuring and organizations -- Serial offenders -- Task forces -- Media relations and task force communication -- Investigative analysis -- Previous studies regarding task forces -- 13. Conclusion -- Appendix A. Estimates related to prevalence of serial stalking.
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