Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder

摘要: Preface Acknowledgments PART I. Multiple Murder 1. America's Fascination With Homicide The Gein Legacy in Popular Culture Selling of Craving Attention Killer Communication Groupies Impact Celebrating Murderers Sensitize, Not Sanitize 2. Defining Mass, Serial, and Spree A Typology II. Serial 3. An Anatomy Prevalence Extraordinarily Ordinary Profile the Typical 4. Deliberation Purpose When Killing Is Thrilling On a Deadly Mission Terror or Revenge for Expediency For Love Loyalty 5. Without Guilt Self-Control Social Control Sociopathic Personality Sociopathy Empathy Killers Borderline Disorder Normalcy Rehumanizing Victims 6. Partners Insanity Relationship Profit Partnerships Men Women 7. Company Placing Blame Companionship Functions Cannibalism Desire Total Ownership 8. Fantasyland Keeping Souvenirs Normal Abnormal Fantasies Pornography 9. Making Childhood Suffering Testimony Under Hypnosis Child Abuse Inordinate Need Power Animal Cruelty Violence Against Humans Challenges Predicting Biological Predisposition Blaming Family 10. Nonsexual Over Patients Female Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy 11. Cults Cause Appeal Dangerous Suicide Homicide? Satanism 12. So Many Vulnerable Preferred Catching Behavioral Profiling Reducing Linkage Blindness Lucky Breaks III. Massacres 13. Love, Money Relative Obscurity Mass Selective Methodical Kills Sweet Profiting From Explaining Great Equalizer Contributing Factors 14. Annihilation Annihilator Unemployment Murdering Moms Defiant Son 15. Firing Back Workplace Avenger Frustration Mixed Motives Romantic Obsession Externalizing Responsibility Isolation Screening Out Problem Workers Going Postal 16. Schooled Student to College Shooting Infamy Overstating Copycat Effect 17. Fighting City Hall Attacking System Legal Battles Filing Grievance Increasing Alienation 18. Hate-Motivated Choice Life as Victim Settling Grudge Gun Minority Majority 19. Berserk Paranoid Thinking Confused State Mind Long-Standing Mental Illness Civilian Battlefields Brain Abnormalities Weapons IV. Epilogue 20. Remembering References Credits Sources Index About Authors