Brooks was a very attractive youth who seemed almost mesmerized by Corll ; and Henley , who was introduced to Corll by Brooks , found Corll to be the only one with whom he could really relate . They both came to love him and would do ...
Murder: an Analysis of its Forms, Conditions, and Causes. Je›erson, NC: McFarland. Fishman, Mark. ¡978. Crime waves as ideology. Social Problems 25: 53¡–43. Fox, James Alan. ¡996. Uniform Crime Reports (United States): Supplementary ...
Criminlogists label the people who kill several victims in a single short and bloody episode mass murders. And listed in this book are a few of the most notorious.
This Fifth Edition is filled with contemporary and classic case studies and has been updated to include coverage of controversial issues such as gun control and mental illness, the role of high-powered weapons in mass shootings, and the ...
Alton Coleman was a spree killer who, unusually, was sentenced to death four times in three states, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio (twice). Because of the complexities of the American legal system, Coleman was executed in 2002 for murders ...
This book presents readers with a comprehensive and readable manuscript dealing with the social issue of mass murder.
Exploring the world's most extreme cases of mass murder, this title includes over 200 notorious cases such as: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, two heavily armed students who opened fire...
Mass and Serial Murder in America is illuminating reading for undergraduate and graduate students and practitioners in social science disciplines such as criminal justice, criminology, social work, psychology, forensic psychology, and ...
In this trenchant book, Abram de Swaan offers a taxonomy of mass violence that focuses on the rank-and-file perpetrators, examining how murderous regimes recruit them and create what De Swaan calls the "killing compartments” that make ...
In his book, School Shootings: What Every Parent and Educator Needs to Know to Protect Our Children, Joseph A. Lieberman discusses several cult-hero icons who appear to have influenced Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho.
Throughout the book, renowned experts James Alan Fox and Jack Levin examine the theories of criminal behavior and apply them to a multitude of mass and serial murderers from around the world, such as Adam Lanza (Newtown, CT), James Holmes ...