The New Predator--Women Who Kill: Profiles of Female Serial KillersThis is the first book ever based on face-to-face interviews with women serial killers. This book includes quotes from the interviews and profiles women who kill, and their crime scenes. This book: - Highlights differences between male and female murders, contrasts mass murder and serial killing. - Describes childhood warning signs that may be predictive of later violent behavior. - Gives an authoritative step-by-step guide for professionals investigating equivocal death cases. - Offers suggestions on how to interview female offenders. "I never understood my capacity for compassion until I started killing, "--A female convicted of five murders |
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Page 8 - Keeney defined serial homicide in her 1992 master's thesis as "the premeditated murder of three or more victims, committed over time in separate incidents, in a civilian context, with the murder activity being chosen by the offender" (unpublished, University of South Florida, Tampa, Fla.).
Page 8 - At least two fantasy-driven compulsive murders committed at different times and at different locations where there is no relationship between the perpetrator and victim and no material gain, with victims having characteristics in common.202 • Two or more separate murders when an individual, acting alone or with another, commits multiple homicides over a period of time, with time breaks between each murder event.20...
Page 9 - Victims may have symbolic value and are perceived to be prestigeless and in most instances are unable to defend themselves or alert others to their plight, or are perceived as powerless given their situation in time, place or status within their immediate surroundings (such as vagrants, prostitutes, migrant workers, homosexuals, missing children, and single and often elderly women).
Page 8 - ... prior relationship between victim and attacker (if there is a relationship, such a relationship will place the victim in a subjugated role to the killer); (3) subsequent murders are at different times and have no apparent connection to the initial murder; and (4) are usually committed in a different geographical location. Further, (5) the motive is not material gain but the murderer's desire to have power or dominance over his victims.
References to this book
An Explosive Quarter-century: A Guide to Monographic Works on Women's Legal ... Loretta Price No preview available - 2003 |
Inside the Minds of Healthcare Serial Killers: Why They Kill Katherine Ramsland No preview available - 2007 |