| Description |
viii, 423 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: I.On the Origin of the Species: The Evolution of Serial Killers -- 1.Serial Killers: A Brief Introduction to the Species -- 2.Genesis: The Stone Age Reptilian Zombie Serial-Killer Triune Brain -- 3.Psychopathia Sexualis: The Psychology of the Lust Serial Killer in Civilized Society -- II.Serial Killer Chronicles: The Early Forensic History of Monsters -- 4.The Dawn of the Less-Dead: Serial Killers and Modernity -- 5.Lupina Insania: Criminalizing Werewolves and Little Red Riding Hood as Victim, 1450--1650 -- 6.Malleus Maleficarum: The Great Witch Hunt as a Serial-Killing-Woman Hunt -- 7.The Rippers Before Jack: The Rise of Modern Serial Killers in Europe, 1800--1887 -- 8.Back in the USA: The Rise of the Modern American Serial Killer -- 9.Slouching Toward Whitechapel: Sex Crimes in Britain Before Jack the Ripper -- III.The New Age of Monsters: The Rise of the Modern Serial Killer -- 10.Raptor: Jack the Ripper and the Whitechapel Murders, 1888 -- |
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Contents note continued: 11.The French Ripper: The Forensics of Serial, Murder in the Belle Epoch, 1897 -- 12.Red Tide Rising: Serial Killers in the First Half of the Twentieth Century, 1900--1950 -- 13.American Gothic: The "Golden Age" of Serial Killers, 1950--2000 -- 14.Diabolus in Cultura: Serial-Killing Rape Culture "Sweats," the "Greatest Generation," and Their Sons of Cain |
| Subject |
Serial murderers -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Reading nook.
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| LC no. |
2017046780 |
| ISBN |
9780425276976 |
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