Add to ORKGSerial murderers generate an abundance of public interest, media coverage, and law enforcement attention, yet after decades of studies, serial murder researchers have been unable to answer the most important question: Why? Providing a unique and comprehensive exploration, Creating Cultural Monsters: Serial Murder in Americaexplains connections between American culture and the incidence of serial murder, including reasons why most identified serial murderers are white, male Americans. It describes the omnipresence of serial murder in American media and investigates what it would take to decrease its occurrence.https://digitalcommons.wcupa.edu/casfaculty_books/1009/thumbnail.jp
Rarity aside, serial murder is one of the most fascinating subjects in criminology. This panel will ...
The social construction of serial murder by the media has received a great deal of attention in the ...
Arguably since the end of the twentieth century, serial killers (both real and fictional) have been ...
The purpose of this thesis is to explore the relationship between serial killing and the American me...
Serial murders may have occurred in non-Western cultures, like Japan, South Africa, and Pakistan, be...
Throughout history, the fascination with true crime has been an ever-present theme. However, with th...
American culture is rich in “popular” murder cases and virtually all serial killers have been elevat...
Beginning in the 1980\u27s serial murder began to emerge as an entrenched part of pop culture entert...
Arguably since the end of the twentieth century, serial killers (both real and fictional) have been ...
Serial murders are a subject of interest for many Americans, and a large section of consumer culture...
This dissertation considers how, beginning in 1969, Americans encountered an unprecedented density o...
This chapter provides a fresh theoretical perspective on society’s perpetual fascination with and co...
This article summarizes and compares information on seven interviewed serial killers in an ongoing p...
Psychiatric approaches have usually been used to explain male serial homicide. But multifactor expla...
Public perceptions about serial homicide are more mythical than fact. Myths about serial homicide ar...
Rarity aside, serial murder is one of the most fascinating subjects in criminology. This panel will ...
The social construction of serial murder by the media has received a great deal of attention in the ...
Arguably since the end of the twentieth century, serial killers (both real and fictional) have been ...
The purpose of this thesis is to explore the relationship between serial killing and the American me...
Serial murders may have occurred in non-Western cultures, like Japan, South Africa, and Pakistan, be...
Throughout history, the fascination with true crime has been an ever-present theme. However, with th...
American culture is rich in “popular” murder cases and virtually all serial killers have been elevat...
Beginning in the 1980\u27s serial murder began to emerge as an entrenched part of pop culture entert...
Arguably since the end of the twentieth century, serial killers (both real and fictional) have been ...
Serial murders are a subject of interest for many Americans, and a large section of consumer culture...
This dissertation considers how, beginning in 1969, Americans encountered an unprecedented density o...
This chapter provides a fresh theoretical perspective on society’s perpetual fascination with and co...
This article summarizes and compares information on seven interviewed serial killers in an ongoing p...
Psychiatric approaches have usually been used to explain male serial homicide. But multifactor expla...
Public perceptions about serial homicide are more mythical than fact. Myths about serial homicide ar...
Rarity aside, serial murder is one of the most fascinating subjects in criminology. This panel will ...
The social construction of serial murder by the media has received a great deal of attention in the ...
Arguably since the end of the twentieth century, serial killers (both real and fictional) have been ...