Download or read book The Anonymity of African American Serial Killers written by Allan L. Branson, Ph.d. and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race-based perceptions regarding African American males have created the belief that, although these men are frequently associated with crime, they do not engage in serial murder. That conviction reflects a cultural bias whereby white male serial murderers arguably have been given an iconic status within popular culture, and the "anti-hero" traits accorded them are denied to their African-American counterparts, rendering the latter invisible. A combination of critical discourse analysis, case studies, and quantitative analysis of social artifacts provide support for this thesis. An overview of the significant impact of slavery, the creation of media imagery regarding criminality from the late nineteenth century to the present, and the over representation of African Americans in the penal system provide a framework to examine how racism in the U.S. has evolved, how multiple forms of popular media have shaped perceptions of both blacks and serial murderers, and how the FBI's criminal profiling matrix developed in accord with these cognitive patterns. All combine to create a dangerous delusion that blinds law enforcement to possible perpetrators of serial murder. Significantly, the case of the D.C. Snipers and other black serial killers are examined to demonstrate the biases inherent in social and cultural attitudes to such crimes and the consequences for the continuing anonymity of black serial murderers.
Download or read book The Anonymity of African American Serial Killers written by Allan LeRoy Branson and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book African American Serial Killers The Neglected Investigative Profile written by Janet E. McClellan Ph. D. and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book argues that contemporary patterns neglect an important portion of serial killers in the U. S., specifically, African-American serial killers and the lack of recognition neglects to recognize the risks and harm done to their victims and potential victims, most of whom are African-American women and children. The flawed stereotypes surrounding our perceptions of serial killers are: (1) that the killing is almost always a White male, (2) that African-American men rarely, if ever, commit serial murder and (3) that those who commit serial murder are either psychologically complex or significantly intelligent to be able to escape capture/arrest. Those myths are biased and prejudicial to the victims. Victims of African-American serial killers, predominantly African-American women, and children, are further victimized when the violence against them is ignored or underreported. The media misrepresentations and ineffective investigations by law enforcement further deny them justice and further places them in harm's way. The lack of reporting, examination, and investigation of African-American serial killers is prejudicial to the victims and potential victims of violence and murder.
Download or read book Killer on the Road written by Ginger Strand and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-04-04 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting in the 1950s, Americans eagerly built the planet’s largest public work: the 42,795-mile National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. Before the concrete was dry on the new roads, however, a specter began haunting them—the highway killer. He went by many names: the “Hitcher,” the “Freeway Killer,” the “Killer on the Road,” the “I-5 Strangler,” and the “Beltway Sniper.” Some of these criminals were imagined, but many were real. The nation’s murder rate shot up as its expressways were built. America became more violent and more mobile at the same time. Killer on the Road tells the entwined stories of America’s highways and its highway killers. There’s the hot-rodding juvenile delinquent who led the National Guard on a multistate manhunt; the wannabe highway patrolman who murdered hitchhiking coeds; the record promoter who preyed on “ghetto kids” in a city reshaped by freeways; the nondescript married man who stalked the interstates seeking women with car trouble; and the trucker who delivered death with his cargo. Thudding away behind these grisly crime sprees is the story of the interstates—how they were sold, how they were built, how they reshaped the nation, and how we came to equate them with violence. Through the stories of highway killers, we see how the “killer on the road,” like the train robber, the gangster, and the mobster, entered the cast of American outlaws, and how the freeway—conceived as a road to utopia—came to be feared as a highway to hell.
Download or read book African American Serial Killers written by Lwendela K. Maloba and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Homicide written by Joan Swart and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forensic psychology plays an increasingly important role in criminal investigations and legal decision-making. Homicide: A Forensic Psychology Casebook guides readers through the practical aspects of homicide cases across the entire criminal justice system, from the investigative process to the criminal trial process, and beyond. Each chapter contains a description and analysis of selected cases and offenders, and provides a crime narrative and offender narrative to illustrate the underlying theory and practical considerations of homicide investigations. Criminal justice students and practitioners alike will benefit from the comprehensive scope of this text. In order to ensure fair and efficient criminal justice practices in the field of forensic investigation, there is still a need for conformity and standardization of sound protocols and approaches based on improved knowledge and education. This book is part of that effort to understand homicidal behavior and offenders better in order to prevent similar crimes.
Download or read book Foucault Feminism and Sex Crimes written by Chloë Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together Foucault's writings on crime and delinquency, on the one hand, and sexuality, on the other, to argue for an anti-carceral feminist Foucauldian approach to sex crimes. The author expands on Foucault’s writings through intersectional explorations of the critical race, decolonial, critical disability, queer and critical trans studies literatures on the prison that have emerged since the publication of Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality. Drawing on Foucault’s insights from his genealogical period, the book argues that those labeled as sex offenders will today be constructed to re-offend twice over, once in virtue of the delinquency with which they are inculcated through criminological discourses and in the criminal punishment system, and second in virtue of the manners in which their sexual offense is taken up as an identity through psychological and sexological discourses. The book includes a discussion of non-retributive responses to crime, including preventative, redistributive, restorative, and transformative justice. It concludes with two appendixes: the original 19th-century medico-legal report on Charles Jouy and its English translation by the author. Foucault, Feminism, and Sex Crimes will be of interest to feminist philosophers, Continental philosophers, Women’s and Gender Studies scholars, social and political theorists, as well as social scientists and social justice activists.
Download or read book The Crime Fiction Handbook written by Peter Messent and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crime Fiction Handbook presents a comprehensive introduction to the origins, development, and cultural significance of the crime fiction genre, focusing mainly on American British, and Scandinavian texts. Provides an accessible and well-written introduction to the genre of crime fiction Moves with ease between a general overview of the genre and useful theoretical approaches Includes a close analysis of the key texts in the crime fiction tradition Identifies what makes crime fiction of such cultural importance and illuminates the social and political anxieties at its heart. Shows the similarities and differences between British, American, and Scandinavian crime fiction traditions
Download or read book The San Francisco Doodler Murders written by Kate Zaliznock and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-26 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1974, one of San Francisco's most horrific unsolved serial murder cases began. In less than two years, the man police called "The Doodler" took at least five lives, terrorized the LGBTQ community, and left three survivors forever changed. Initial reports claimed the murderer didn't approach his victims with the knife he used to kill them, but that the suspect shared skilled drawings--sketches of faces and animals--before leaving a string of gay men to bleed out on the sands of Ocean Beach. Police investigations and activist efforts to uncover the killer led to several suspects, but no definitive identification of the artist of death. Author Kate Zaliznock shines a light on this riveting cold case.
Download or read book The Reality of the Perceived Increase in African American Serial Killers written by Keianna Hughes and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Serial Killers written by Peter Vronsky and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of Mindhunter and true crime podcasts will devour these chilling stories of serial killers from the American "Golden Age" (1950-2000). With books like Serial Killers, Female Serial Killers and Sons of Cain, Peter Vronsky has established himself as the foremost expert on the history of serial killers. In this first definitive history of the "Golden Age" of American serial murder, when the number and body count of serial killers exploded, Vronsky tells the stories of the most unusual and prominent serial killings from the 1950s to the early twenty-first century. From Ted Bundy to the Golden State Killer, our fascination with these classic serial killers seems to grow by the day. American Serial Killers gives true crime junkies what they crave, with both perennial favorites (Ed Kemper, Jeffrey Dahmer) and lesser-known cases (Melvin Rees, Harvey Glatman).
Download or read book Creating Cultural Monsters written by Julie B. Wiest and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serial 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 America explains connections bet
Download or read book Extra Ordinary Men written by Nicola Rehling and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-06-21 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extra-Ordinary Men analyzes popular cinematic representations of white heterosexual masculinity as the 'ordinary' form of male identity, one that enjoys considerable economic, social, political, and representational strength. Nicola Rehling argues that while this normative position affords white heterosexual masculinity ideological and political dominance, such 'ordinariness' also engenders the anxiety that it is a depthless, vacuous, and unstable identity. At a time when the neutrality of white heterosexual masculinity has been challenged by identity politics, this insightful volume offers lucid accounts of contemporary theoretical debates on masculinity in popular cinema, and explores the strategies deployed in popular films to reassert white heterosexual male hegemony through detailed readings of films as diverse as Fight Club, Boys Don't Cry, and The Matrix. Accessible to undergraduates, but also of interest to film scholars, the book makes a distinctive contribution to our understanding of the ways in which popular film helps construct and maintain many unexamined assumptions about masculinity, gender, race, and sexuality.
Download or read book Sex Crimes and Paraphilia written by Eric W. Hickey and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2006 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers an array of sex crimes, sex offenders, and their victims. It provides an in-depth examination of the role fantasy and paraphilia play in the production of sex offending. While many paraphilia may not be considered criminal, others can be viewed as preparatory behavior that become foundational for violent sex crimes.
Download or read book Serial Murderers and Their Victims written by Eric W. Hickey and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 2006 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author exmines the lives of over 400 serial murderers, analyzing the cultural, historical, and religious factors that influence our myths and stereotypes of these individuals. He then describes the biological, psychological, and socialogical reasons for serial murder, offering his own Trauma-Control model for explaining serial murder behaviour. This new edition includes new case profiles of Canada's two most prolific serial killers : Robert "Willy" Picton and Clifford Olsen.
Download or read book SKA Serial Killers Anonymous written by William Schlichter and published by BHC Press/Open Window. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Group therapy can be dangerous… Unable to seek conventional help, seven serial killers band together in their own unique support group, attempting to quell their unnatural cravings. Led by a former nurse, they gather in dark basements and share the most intimate details of their murders as they attempt to heal their dysfunction. Forging a fragile trust, they suppress the urge to kill. And as more and more members accomplish breakthroughs, the group agrees to stop slaughtering. But one member of the group isn’t truly convinced. And they will do whatever it takes to end therapy. The hunters are about to become the prey.
Download or read book Blood Brothers Volume 2 written by Robert Keller and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-12 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 25 More Shocking True Crime Stories of American's Worst African-American serial killers Harrison Graham: the killer had a unique way of dealing with corpses, he simply allowed them to rot in his apartment. The stench of 8 decomposing bodies eventually led to his downfall. Maury Travis: a brutal torturer and rapist of women who was caught out by his internet browsing history. Robert Nixon: the "Brick Moron" preyed on helpless women in Chicago and L.A., savagely bludgeoning them to death. Craig Price: America's youngest serial killer, Price murdered his first victim at 13, and had added three more before he'd even turned 16. Milton Johnson: a killer with a grudge again society, Johnson massacred 18 people during a series of weekend murder sprees. Derrick Todd Lee: brutal killer of at least seven Baton Rouge women. Amazingly, another serial killer was working the same turf at the time, killing to keep up with Lee's body count. Lemuel Smith: already serving life for a series of brutal murders, Smith claimed one last victim, a female prison guard who he savagely choked and mutilated. Lorenzo Fayne: Illinois child killer, torturer, and necrophile who was responsible for at least five deaths. Jason Thomas Scott: would be criminal mastermind with a deadly sideline in sadistic murder. Gerald Parker: a savage home invading psychopath known as the "Bedroom Basher," Parker was eventually nailed by DNA evidence. Plus 15 more sensational true crime cases....Scroll up and grab a copy today.
