Understanding Sexual Serial Killing - Coschug-Toates, Olga

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Résumé :
Why do some people engage in serial killing for sexual pleasure? This book considers the phenomenon of sexual serial killing from the perspective of motivation theory, as advanced in psychology and neuroscience. By examining biological, psychological and social determinants, it develops a model of sexual killing that integrates widely dispersed existing literature. The first part of the book reviews scientific data and theories, while the second part presents biographical sketches of 80 sexual killers and links their early development and later killing to current theoretical understanding. The book examines cases of serial killers from the USA, Western Europe, Iran, Australia and South Africa, and it also includes an account of killers from the USSR, made available to non-Russian speakers for the first time. Deliberately written to avoid jargon, Understanding Sexual Serial Killing is accessible to students, scholars and professionals across psychology, sociology, forensic science and law....

Sommaire:
Part I. The Factors that Underlie Lust Killing: 1. How to gain understanding; 2. A focus on the individual; 3. States of brain and mind; 4. A focus on the context; 5. Ways of explaining; 6. The motivation underlying serial lust killing; 7. Inhibition; 8. The making of a sex-linked killer; 9. Linking normality to abnormality; 10. Looking for a thrill; 11. Beyond conventional desire: Paraphilias; 12. Can it become addictive?; Part II. Biographical Sketches: 13. Similarities and differences; 14. A focus on the males in the family; 15. A focus on the (ex) wife; 16. A focus on the mother: Being given up for adoption; 17. A focus on the mother: Uncertainty; 18. A focus on the mother: Her behavior; 19. A focus on revenge; 20. Just for being gay; 21. Fetishes and partialisms; 22. Imprinting on powerful events; 23. Living in farmyard squalor; 24. Cross-dressing; 25. Attachment-linked killers; 26. A desire for child victims; 27. Stress and disorganization; 28. Problems with sexual potency; 29. Paired killers: Male; 30. Paired killers: Male and female; 31. Drugs and addiction in focus; 32. More questions than answers; Part III. Final Word: 33. Bringing things together.