In the text the author challenges the conventional idea of serial killers as deranged madmen. He explores the twisted, but comprehensible, motives of some of the world's most notorious killers, including Edmund Emil Kemper, Theodore Robert Bundy, Albert DeSalvo (The Boston Strangler) and Davis Berkowitz (Son of Sam).
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In this classic study, Elliott Leyton challenges the conventional idea of serial murderers as deranged madmen. He explores the twisted – but comprehensible – motives of a half-dozen notorious killers: Edmund Emil Kemper, Theodore Robert Bundy, Albert DeSalvo ("The Boston Strangler"), David Richard Berkowitz ("Son of Sam"), Mark James Robert Essex, and Charles Starkweather. In the process of describing their crimes Leyton exposes the cold rationality that underlies their apparent pointlessness. The result is startling: a revelatory text on a deeply troubling topic.
About the Author:
Elliott Leyton is currently Professor Emeritus at Memorial University in Newfoundland. He holds research and faculty appointments in Ireland and England and is a past president of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association. His books include Men of Blood, Touched by Fire (with photographer Greg Locke), Dying Hard, and The Myth of Delinquency.
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- PublisherBlake Publishing
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 1904034551
- ISBN 13 9781904034551
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
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