Preface
1 Introduction
In Search of the Murderer
Researching murder, problems and sources
Killing and the law, a beginner's guide
Categories of killing
Homicide statistics for England and Wales
Wife-killing
Sexual murder
The history of sex-killing: is it a modern phenomenon?
Gender and sex-killing: is it an all-male preserve?
Culture and sex-killing: is it universal?
Explanations of murder: the traditional approach
2 The Murderer as Hero
The myth of the sex beast from broadside to tabloid
'Exotic murder': the true-crime monthlies
Death and transgression: from monster to rebel
Philosophy in the charnel-house: the Marquis de Sade
The murderer as rebel: existentialism
Conclusion
3
The Murderer as Deviant
Criminology, the 'science of crime'
Biogenetic explanations of sex murder
Body type and criminality
Criminality and the brain
Chromosomes
Hormones
A note on biological explanation
Psychological explanations of sex murder
Personality
The psychopath
The diagnosis and treatment of psychosexual abnormality:
psychiatry, sexology and psychoanalysis
Psychiatry: the medical and legal concept of madness
Sexology
Psychoanalysis
The Shoemaker
Social explanations of sex murder
Victimology
Learning theory
Subculture theory
Labelling theory
Radical criminology
Conclusion
4
The Murderer Personified
Rippers: a century of prostitute-killing
Sadists: the iniquity of Brady and Hindley
Culture, representation, action
Myra Hindley: it's different for girls
Necrophiles: Dennis Nilsen, the incurable romantic
North American serial killers: getting their kicks
on Route 66
5 The Murderer as Misogynist?
Sexual murder as violence against women
Sexual murder as masculine transcendence
Feminism, the subject and sexuality
Appendix
Sex-murderers referred to in the text
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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