Understanding Sexual Serial Killing
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- Authors:
- Frederick Toates, The Open University, Milton Keynes
- Olga Coschug-Toates
- Date Published: June 2024
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781009045681
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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.
Read more- Identifies the principal developmental determinants of sexual serial killing using motivation theory and neuroscience
- Offers an entirely new approach to analysing sexual serial killers by logically grouping the killers together according to some of the key features and connections they exhibit
- Discusses serial killers not only from the USA but also from Western Europe, Iran, Australia, South Africa; and for the first time, an account of a range of killers from the USSR is made available to non-Russian speakers
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'Understanding Sexual Serial Killing fills a hole in our theoretical narrative while offering a comprehensive overview of this type of offender. With updated psychological and neuroscientific research, this book dissects the motivational roots of the most depraved sexually compelled serial killers. It should be in the library of anyone who deals with or teaches about them.' Katherine Ramsland, DeSales University, USA
See more reviews'This is the most comprehensive book on lust serial killing ever published. As well as including a detailed biopsychosocial perspective on this type of offending, it includes a series of biographical analyses which are logically grouped to provide the reader with a deep understanding of the psychological development of lust serial killers. One of the most interesting and thought-provoking books in the field!' Clare Allely, University of Salford, UK
'Understanding Sexual Serial Killing conveys complex ideas regarding the biopsychosocial elements of lust murder in prose that is refreshingly succinct and easily understandable. Complementing their sharp intellects with a pervading wisdom, the authors offer an indispensable contribution to the field. This book is among the best on sexual homicide to appear in the twenty-first century. No serious forensic psychologist or criminologist would risk omitting it from their library.' Lee Mellor, author of Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder, UK
'This engaging, easy-to-follow text examines the profiles of different types of serial killer. These profiles are brought to life vividly through in-depth analysis using description and theory. This combination makes the text an invaluable source of archival information for general readers, students and academics alike.' Sandie Taylor, University of South Wales, UK
'The development and motivations of serial lust killers are detailed using case profiles combined with neuroscientific and biopsychosocial research vividly explaining the concepts by the authors. Understanding Sexual Serial Killing is a must-have guide for researchers, writers and readers who want to understand sexual homicide.' Carrie Anne Drazewski-Keller, Anthropologist, Colorado Western Slope, USA
'One of the reasons that the book is praised by experts and lay readers alike is that it deliberately eschews jargon. Its reliance on plain language while still accounting for the scholarly literature makes it simultaneously accessible and scholarly. … Although written from a psychological perspective, Toates and Coschug-Toates have incorporated a range of relevant work from biology, law, and sociology. The curious sociologist will find much of value here, particularly in the chapter that locates the psychology of the individual offender within his wider social milieu.' James Oleson, New Zealand Sociology
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- Date Published: June 2024
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781009045681
- length: 547 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 mm
- weight: 0.783kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I. The Factors that Underlie Lust Killing:
1. How to gain understanding
2. A focus on the individual
3. States of brain and mind
4. A focus on the context
5. Ways of explaining
6. The motivation underlying serial lust killing
7. Inhibition
8. The making of a sex-linked killer
9. Linking normality to abnormality
10. Looking for a thrill
11. Beyond conventional desire: Paraphilias
12. Can it become addictive?
Part II. Biographical Sketches:
13. Similarities and differences
14. A focus on the males in the family
15. A focus on the (ex) wife
16. A focus on the mother: Being given up for adoption
17. A focus on the mother: Uncertainty
18. A focus on the mother: Her behavior
19. A focus on revenge
20. Just for being gay
21. Fetishes and partialisms
22. Imprinting on powerful events
23. Living in farmyard squalor
24. Cross-dressing
25. Attachment-linked killers
26. A desire for child victims
27. Stress and disorganization
28. Problems with sexual potency
29. Paired killers: Male
30. Paired killers: Male and female
31. Drugs and addiction in focus
32. More questions than answers
Part III. Final Word:
33. Bringing things together.
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