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So you want to know more about Serial Killers?: Killer Psychology
Are you interested in true crime, but don't know where to start? Are you a serial killer aficionado interested in what your library has to offer? You've come to the right place!
Some things are evolutionary, including how men and women choose victims for murder. Take a look at Marissa Harrison's, Penn State Harrisburg's associate professor of psychology, results from her study.
This paper theorizes how sexually motivated aggression coalesces with "evil, dislodged from its philosophical and religious underpinnings" (Knight, Z. G., 2007, Abstract). Many of the famous serial killers, like Ted Bundy and BTK, involve sexual aggression in their modus operandi. This resource is for those who enjoy learning the theory behind the action.
Ever wonder what psychological development theories look like applied to real people or what makes serial killers grow to what they become? This book covers "the role of such internal processes as attachment, moral development, and identity formation in the development of a person’s predisposition to various forms of deviance" and applies it to cases covered and not covered in this LibGuide (Harmening, W. M., 2014, Description).
If forensic science and psychology interest you, this is the dissertation to read! Jordyn Smith uses "historical analysis" to place Ted Bundy, Ted Kaczynski, David Berkowitz, and Jeffrey Dahmer into different psychological typologies (Smith, 2018, p. vi).
Fact is stranger than fiction when it comes to apprehending serial killers in real life. Read about how a killer's behavior is the reason they get caught.
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