Serial Murderers and their Victims, 5th ed. - Brainshare Public ...

variety of college and university courses including criminology, criminal justice,
deviant behavior, sex crimes, victimology, abnormal psychology, and penology.
Students using this book will be exposed to concepts and information that will
help prepare them to understand society’s most dangerous criminals. For those
currently working in law enforcement, this book should serve as a useful reference
and in-service tool.
THE FIFTH EDITION
This new fifth edition has received considerable restructuring and the addition of
two new chapters. Chapter 5 focuses upon sexual predators, paraphilia, and
homicide. Several new case studies in paraphilic behavior are added to assist the
reader in understanding the development of paraphilia. The concept of relational
paraphilic attachment is introduced that explains the linkage, fantasy, and criminal
sexual attachment process between criminal paraphilia and victim selection.
Chapter 6 is also a new chapter exploring the world of healthcare providers who
murder patients and others in their care. In addition, several research updates are
provided.
Serial Murderers and Their Victims debunks the myths and stereotypes that
have evolved from public efforts to find easy explanations for the relatively rare
yet horrifying phenomenon of serial murder. It also raises many questions about
serial killers and their behavior. The research for this book has included visits to
prisons, police departments, and numerous university libraries across the United
States, as well as extensive Internet searches and interviews with numerous sexual
predators such as pedophiles, child molesters, stalkers, paraphiliacs, and several
serial murderers, their spouses, ex-spouses, lovers, and friends. I explored the lives
of dead victims and victims who survived the attacks, and I communicated with
families and relatives of the victims. Despite the extensive social, psychological,
physiological, and financial devastation inflicted by serial murderers on their victims
and the victims’ families, the victims are often reduced to little more than
crime statistics. The etiology of victimization and the continued suffering of survivors
must not be forgotten or neglected.
SUPPLEMENTS
PREFACE xix
Extensive Test item files in Microsoft Word format are available to support this
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