Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-213) and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:
1. Introduction / Phillip C. Shon and Dragan Milovanovic -- 2. They must be crazy...aren't they? : legal issues with sexual serial murderers / Margaret R. Kohut, Mark S. Carich and Angeline Stanislaus -- 3. Sexual murder and sexual serial killers : towards a mind-body developmental theory / Mark S. Carich, Dawn Fisher and Margaret R. Kohut -- 4. Sexual homicide, serial murder, and lust killing : theoretical integrations and practical limitations / Bruce A. Arrigo and Catherine E. Purcell -- 5. Sexual homicide : a British investigation of motivation and implicit theories / Dawn Fisher, Anthony Beech, Mark S. Carich and Margaret R. Kohut -- 6. Picquerism : the investigative challenge of serial murder / DeVere D. Woods Jr. 7. A synthesis and reinterpretation of necrophilia in the context of lust murders : the role of fate / Deanna Cahill, Rachel Dickey and P. Shon -- 8. The portrayal of extreme crime by the media : reflecting or creating fear? / John Randolph Fuller -- 9. High profile serial killers and capital punishment 1977-1994 / Christopher Kudlac -- 10. Crime, subjectivity and edgework : the case of lust homicide / Phillip C. Shon and Dragan Milovanovic.