The Killers Among Us: An Examination of Serial Murder and Its Investigation

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Prentice Hall, 2002 - Law - 348 pages

For undergraduate/graduate-level courses in Special Topics in Criminal Justice, Deviance, Criminal Investigation, Special Topics in Policing, and Advanced Criminology.

Explicit in detail, yet sensitive in perspective, this text describes and analyzes the phenomenon of serial murder and discusses why these killers kill as well as various methods of identifying and catching them. It provides vital and up-to-date information to criminal investigators, criminologists, crime writers and anyone interested in the phenomenon of serial murder. Detailed case studies of seven infamous serial killers are presented Henry Lee Lucas, John Wayne Gacy, Kenneth Bianchi, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Joseph Miller, and Jerry Marcus with an in-depth cross-analysis of these cases. An exploration of the history and challenges related to the investigation of serial murder is also included.

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... violent sadis- tic fantasies . Sewell ( 1985 ) analyzed the case of Ted Bundy from the literature dealing with Bundy and from Sewell's own involvement as an investigator of the Chi Omega sorority house murders committed by Bundy at ...
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... violent acts or may con- tribute to violent actions . These biological characteristics may be certain abnormalities in the brain , either genetic traits present from birth or abnormalities caused by trauma or brain damage . For example ...
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... Violent Crime Linkage Analysis System ( VICLAS ) , 294 Violent Criminal Apprehension Program ( VICAP ) ( FBI ) , 4 , 256 , 265 , 288 , 289–293 , 295 , 304 . Vital Statistics of the National Center for Health Statistics , 64 Vollmer , A ...

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Contents

PART THE SERIAL MURDER PHENOMENON
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Why Do They Kill and Kill and Kill?
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About the author (2002)

Steven A. Egger is professor of Criminal justice at the University of Illinois at Springfield. He was formerly interim dean of the School of Health and Human Services at the University of Illinois. He was project director of the Homicide Assessment and Lead Tracking System (HALT) for the state of New York. HALT, which was the first statewide computerized system to track and identify serial murderers, has become the model for the development of a number of other statewide systems. Dr. Egger has been conducting research on serial murder since 1983. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from the School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University. He has a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Sam Houston State University, where he completed the first dissertation on serial murder in the world. He has worked as a police officer, homicide investigator, police consultant, and law enforcement academy director. His other research interests include the epistemology of criminal investigation, police interagency networking, and the future predator. He is the author of Serial Murder: An Elusive Phenomenon (Praeger, 1990), editor of a series of monographs entitled Criminology and Crime Control Policy for Praeger, and series editor of a series entitled Issues in Criminal Justice Controversy, under contract to Allyn and Bacon. He has lectured on serial murder in England, Canada, the Netherlands, and Spain. Dr. Egger and his wife, Kim, are currently working on an encyclopedia of serial murder, which will include entries on over seven hundred serial killers. Kim A. Egger studied at Purdue University and has a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Illinois at Springfield. She is currently pursuing a master's degree in Law and Psychology. She has co-authored, with Steven Egger, a chapter on the victims of serial murder in a monograph on victimology. For the past ten years she has been developing a database on serial killers, which currently holds information on 1,246 serial murderers. She has lectured at Purdue University, the University of Illinois at Springfield, and Brazosport College, Texas. Don Larsen is a detective with the Springfield, Illinois, -Police Department. He holds a B.S. in Criminal Justice from the University of Illinois at Springfield. Linda Kreuger was formerly a part-time patrol officer with the Sangamon County Sheriff's Office. She is currently employed in Rehabilitation Administration for the state of Illinois. She holds a master's degree in Rehabilitation from Southern Illinois University. Both Don and Linda were previously enrolled in Steven Egger's course on serial murder at the University of Illinois at Springfield.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Killers Among Us: An Examination of Serial Murder and Its Investigation
AuthorSteven A. Egger
Edition2
PublisherPrentice Hall, 2002
Original fromIndiana University
DigitizedMar 31, 2010
ISBN0130179159, 9780130179159
Length348 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Law / Jurisprudence
Social Science / Criminology
True Crime / General
True Crime / Murder / General
True Crime / Murder / Serial Killers
  
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