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Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder provides a comprehensive, fascinating overview of multiple homicide, including both serial and mass murder. Adopting a unified conceptual framework for understanding these divergent forms of extreme killing, this book illustrates the many violent expressions of power, revenge, terror, greed, and loyalty using contemporary and classic case studies in multiple murder. In Extreme Killing, renowned experts James Alan Fox and Jack Levin examine the theories of criminal behavior and apply them to a multitude of well-known and lesser-known cases from around the world. The authors draw upon research from two large data sets - one comprised of serial killers and the other of those who have committed massacres. The book presents the many commonalities among multiple murders and also focuses on the varieties of serial and mass killing. The authors address the characteristics of both killers and their victims, and, in their concluding chapter, discuss the special concerns of multiple murder victims and their survivors.

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• Part I Multiple Murder
• Chapter 1 America's Fascination With Multiple Homicide
• The Gein Legacy
• Multiple Murder In Popular Culture
• The Selling Of Multiple Murder
• Craving Attention
• Killer Groupies
• The Impact Of Celebrating Murderers
• Sensitize, Not Sanitize
• Chapter 2 Defining Multiple Murder
• Mass, Serial And Spree
• A Typology Of Multiple Murder
• Part II Serial Murder
• Chapter 3 An Anatomy Of Serial Murder
• Prevalence Of Serial Murder
• Extraordinarily Ordinary
• A Profile Of The Typical Serial Killer
• Chapter 4 With Deliberation And Purpose
• When Killing Is Thrilling
• On A Deadly Mission Of Terror Or Revenge
• Killing For Expediency for Love And Loyalty
• Chapter 5 Murder Without Guilt
• The Sociopathic Personality
• The Culture Of Sociopathy
• Empathy And Serial Killers
• Borderline Personality Disorder
• Compartmentalization And Dehumanization
• Chapter 6 Partners In Murder
• Insanity In The Relationship
• Partners For Profit
• Partnerships Of Men And Women
• Chapter 7 Killing For Company
• Placing The Blame
• Killing For Companionship
• The Functions Of Cannibalism
• Desire For Total Control And Ownership
• Chapter 8 Fantasyland
• Keeping Souvenirs
• Normal And Abnormal Fantasies
• The Impact Of Pornography
• Chapter 9 The Making Of A Serial Killer
• Childhood Suffering
• Testimony Under Hypnosis
• Child Abuse And Murder
• Inordinate Need For Power
• Predicting Serial Murder
• Neurological Impairment
• Blaming The Family
• Chapter 10 Non-Sexual Control
• Power Over Patients
• Female Serial Killers
• Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy
• Chapter 11 Killing Cults
• Killing For A Cause
• The Appeal Of Dangerous Cults
• Mass Homicide Vs. Mass Suicide
• Satanism And Serial Murder
• Chapter 12 So Many Victims
• Vulnerable Victims Preferred
• Catching The Serial Killer
• Behavioral Profiling
• Reducing Linkage Blindness
• Lucky Breaks
• Part III Massacres
• Chapter 13 For Love, Money Or Revenge
• Relative Obscurity
• A Profile Of Mass Killers
• Selective And Methodical
• When Love Kills
• Sweet Revenge
• Profiting From Mass Murder
• The Great Equalizer
• Chapter 14 Family Annihilation
• A Profile Of The Family Annihilator
• Murdering Moms
• The Defiant Son
• Chapter 15 Firing Back
• Profile Of The Workplace Avenger
• The Impact Of Frustration
• Mixed Motives
• Workplace Murder By Proxy
• Romantic Obsession
• Externalizing Responsibility
• Social Isolation
• Screening Out Problem Workers
• Chapter 16 Copycat Killings
• Going Postal
• School Massacres
• Chapter 17 Fighting City Hall
• Attacking The System
• Legal Battles
• Filing A Grievance
• Increasing Alienation
• Chapter 18 I Hate Motivated Mass Murder
• Choice Of Victims
• A Life Of Frustration
• Blaming Women
• The Killer As Victim
• Settling A Grudge With A Gun
• Minority Against Majority
• Chapter 19 Going Berserk
• Paranoid Thinking
• Confused State Of Mind
• Longstanding Mental Illness
• Civilian Battlefields
• Brain Abnormalities
• Deadly Weapons
• Part IV Epilogue
• Chapter 20 Remembering The Victims
• References

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Northeastern University criminal justice professors Fox and Levin distinguish serial murder from mass murder and note five distinct motives: power, revenge, loyalty (e.g., a desire to save loved ones from future hardship), profit, and terror. They studied 588 serial killers in the US from 1900 to the present. Serial killers were predominantly male, white, and in their twenties. Most serial murderers kill for the thrill of power or sexual sadism and are sociopaths, i.e., they have no feelings or remorse over their killings. Many experts believe that early abuse in the family is a major factor in the creation of serial killers. Mass murder, arbitrarily defined as four or more victims killed in a single event by one or more individuals, occurs more frequently in suburban or rural areas, compared with homicide in general. And compared with all homicides, mass murderers are more likely to be white, as are their victims, who are also more likely to be female. In most instances, killers do not randomly select their victims, but target coworkers, neighbors, or family members. The authors discuss all of this in some detail, but the main impression they leave is that it is difficult to generalize about serial killers or mass murderers. ^BSumming Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. D. Harper University of Rochester