Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPART I. Multiple Murder1. America's Fascination With Multiple Homicide The Gein Legacy Multiple Murder in Popular Culture The Selling of Multiple Murder Craving Attention Killer Communication Killer Groupies The Impact of Celebrating Murderers Sensitize, Not Sanitize2. Defining Multiple Murder Mass, Serial, and Spree A Typology of Multiple MurderPART II. Serial Murder3. An Anatomy of Serial Murder Prevalence of Serial Murder Extraordinarily Ordinary A Profile of the Typical Serial Killer4. With Deliberation and Purpose When Killing Is Thrilling On a Deadly Mission of Terror or Revenge Killing for Expediency For Love and Loyalty5. Murder Without Guilt Self-Control and Social Control The Sociopathic Personality The Culture of Sociopathy Empathy and Serial Killers Borderline Personality Disorder Normalcy in Serial Murder Rehumanizing the Victims6. Partners in Murder Insanity in the Relationship Partners for Profit Partnerships of Men and Women7. Killing for Company Placing the Blame Killing for Companionship The Functions of Cannibalism Desire for Total Control and Ownership8. Fantasyland Keeping Souvenirs Normal and Abnormal Fantasies The Impact of Pornography9. The Making of a Serial Killer Childhood Suffering Testimony Under Hypnosis Child Abuse and Murder Inordinate Need for Power Animal Cruelty and Violence Against Humans Challenges of Predicting Serial Murder Biological Predisposition Blaming the Family10. Nonsexual Control Power Over Patients Female Serial Killers Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy11. Killing Cults Killing for a Cause The Appeal of Dangerous Cults Suicide or Homicide? Satanism and Serial Murder12. So Many Victims Vulnerable Victims Preferred Catching the Serial Killer Behavioral Profiling Reducing Linkage Blindness Lucky BreaksPART III. Massacres13. For Love, Money or Revenge Relative Obscurity A Profile of Mass Killers Selective and Methodical When Love Kills Sweet

<strong style="font-weight: normal;">James Alan Fox is the Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy at Northeastern University. He has written 18 books, including his newest, Violence and Security on Campus: From Preschool Through College. He has published dozens of journal and magazine articles, as well as hundreds of freelance columns in newspapers around the country, primarily in the areas of multiple murder, youth crime, school and campus violence, workplace violence, and capital punishment. He also writes an online column for the Boston Globe's website. Fox often gives keynote talks and testimony before Congress and in court. He has briefed various leaders here and abroad, including President Clinton, Attorney General Reno, and Princess Anne of Great Britain. He has worked on criminal investigations surrounding serial and mass murder cases and served as a visiting fellow with the Bureau of Justice Statistics focusing on homicide patterns and trends. Finally, Fox was honored in 2007 by the Massachusetts Committee against the Death Penalty with the Hugo Adam Bedau Award for excellence in capital punishment scholarship and by Northeastern University with the 2008 Klein Lectureship.