Extreme Killing : understanding serial and mass murder
"Accessibly written, yet analytically rich, Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder, is renowned for its fascinating examination of historical and contemporary serial and mass murder. Authors and experts in the field, James Alan Fox, Jack Levin, and Emma Fridel, bring their years of research to bear in this fascinating analysis of serial, multiple, and mass murder. They examine the theories of criminal behavior and apply them to a multitude of tragic events that involve hate crimes, killings at religious services, music festivals, and school shootings. 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 distinction between serial and mass murder."--
Bibliographic Information
| Format: | Book |
|---|---|
| Author: | Fox, James Alan, |
| Subject: |
Serial murders Mass murder |
| Publication Year: | 2024 |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications, Inc., [2024] |
| ISBN: | 9781071862599 1071862596 |
| Notes: | Part I. Multiple murder. America's fascination with multiple murder -- Defining multiple murder -- Theories of multiple homicide -- Part II. Serial murder. An anatomy of a serial murder -- With deliberation and purpose -- Partners in murder -- Killing for company -- Fantasyland -- The making of a serial killer -- Nonsexual control -- Killing cults -- Catching serial killers -- Part III. Mass murder. Mass murder facts -- For love, money, or revenge -- Family annihilation -- Firing back -- Well-schooled in mass murder -- Fighting city hall -- Hate-motivated mass murder -- Terrorism as tactic -- Going berserk -- Weapons of mass (murder) destruction -- Part IV. Aftermath. Coping with tragedy -- Postscript Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-363) and index (pages 365-369). |
| Course: |
PSY350 |
Availability at HKSYU Library
| Location | Call number | Status |
|---|---|---|
| English Book (4/F) | 364.152320973 FOX 2024 | Available |