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An empirical test of Holmes and Holmes serial murder typology. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This article presents the results of an empirical test of Holmes and Holmes’s serial murder classification scheme. Crime scene evidence from 100 U.S. serial murders, each the third in a distinct series, was content analyzed.
David V. Canter, Canter, David V.
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Finding Needle in the Haystack: “Kasur’s Bogeyman” Brought to Justice by Geographic Profiling and Mass DNA Screening

open access: yesBrazilian Journal of Forensic Sciences, Medical Law and Bioethics, 2021
This article describes the application of the concept of geographic profiling in hunting a serial child rapist in Kasur, Pakistan. It also discusses, how DNA became the prime witness against the serial rapist in the court of law.
Muhammad Ahsan Butt   +7 more
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Serial Murder, Serial Consummerism: Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho (1991)

open access: yesMiscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2002
Bret Easton Ellis is a representative blank fiction writer whose novels deal with violence, indulgence, sexual excess, decadence, consumerism and commerce. In American Psycho (1991) he focuses on the phenomenon of the serial killer.
Sonia Baelo Allué
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Reading Serial Killer Fanfiction: What’s Fannish about It?

open access: yesHumanities, 2022
We have come to a point where the field of fan studies must acknowledge darker, more pathologized and potentially more sinister forms of fandom than we have heretofore.
Judith Fathallah
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Who will kill again? The forensic value of 1st degree murder convictions

open access: yesForensic Science International: Synergy, 2019
Studies of homicide offenders that engage in repeat, non-serial homicide offending are scarce and most studies lack comprehensive criminal career data that include convictions for 1st degree murder.
Matt DeLisi, Mark Ruelas, James E. Kruse
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The Organized/Disorganized Typology of Serial Murder: Myth or Model? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Despite weaknesses in the organized/disorganized classification of serial killers, it is drawn on for "offender profiles," theories of offending, and in murder trials.
Alison, Laurence J.   +7 more
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Criminal Investigation of Serial Murders: Challenges and Solutions [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهشهای حقوقی
Serial murder is a rare phenomenon in a rare type of crime (murder), but despite this, the process of criminal investigation of serial murder cases in Iran has always faced severe weaknesses and challenges, and in most cases, such as the murder case, In ...
Ali Rezei Gelvardi, Azade Sadeghi
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Aktör İlişkilerağı, Sağlık-Hastalık ve Suç: Şahsiyet Dizisi Üzerinden Bir Tartışma / Actor Network, Health-Illness and Crime: A Discussion over Sahsiyet (Persona) Mini-Series [PDF]

open access: yesİnsan&İnsan Bilim Kültür Sanat ve Düşünce Dergisi, 2020
Bu çalışma, bir öznenin ilişki ağındaki dönüşümü, hastalık ve cinayet olguları temelinde ele almakta ve bu dönüşümü Şahsiyet dizisi örneğinde ve Aktör İlişkilerağı Kuramı (Actor Network Theory) bağlamında incelemektedir.
Ali Gündüz, Günnur Ertong Attar
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Denying the Darkness: Exploring the Discourses of Neutralization of Bundy, Gacy, and Dahmer

open access: yesSocieties, 2019
This exploratory study analyzed how three serial killers (i.e., Bundy, Gacy, and Dahmer) potentially rationalized and justified their murders by applying techniques of neutralization.
Veronyka James
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Murder and Aesthetics in Patricia Highsmith’s Deep Water

open access: yesEuropean Journal of American Studies, 2023
Patricia Highsmith’s fifth novel, Deep Water (1957), revolves around three murders committed by 36-year-old Victor Van Allen, head of Greenspur Press in Little Wesley, Massachusetts, and a genuine aesthete whose interests include handset colophons ...
Robert Lance Snyder
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