Introduction; Part I: Serial murder; 1. Who are the serial killers?; 2. Are there explanations for serial murder?; 3. What happens after the murders end?; Part II: Mass murder; 4. Who are the mass murderers?; 5. Are there explanations for mass murder?; 6. What's the aftermath?; Part III: Multicide; 7. Comparing serial and mass murder; 8. Comparing mass shooters and lone actor terrorists; 9. Conclusions and future directions
Elizabeth A. Gurian is an associate professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Norwich University. She is also the associate director of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Her research focuses on multicide offenders, including serial and mass murderers, lone actor terrorists, and mass shooters. In 2016, she was awarded an American Association of University Women publication grant for her work exploring serial murder adjudication and outcome patterns. She has published in several leading criminology journals, and she has discussed her work through media such as BBC Radio, VPR, WCAX, and the New York Times and CBS podcast, "Why Women Kill".
As anyone who's spent much time reading about serial killers,
mass murderers, or homicide in general knows, the existing research
tends to focus on solo male offenders who look an awful lot like
Ted Bundy. Elizabeth Gurian's work fills a huge gap in the field by
bringing women, minorities, partnered offenders, and international
ones into the dialogue. While there may always be something about
violent crime that remains unknowable, Gurian's knack for examining
a multitude of multicide offenders (and her refreshing rejection of
stale typologies like "Black Widow") makes this book a great gift
to anyone who's longed for a more holistic, comprehensive
examination of these almost folkloric figures.
-Tori Telfer, Author of Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout
History...[P]recisely because it explores the
multidimensionality of murder, Serial and Mass Murder
offers detailed and above all differentiated insights into a still
not fully understood phenomenon by its pluralistic and abstract
dissection. Although nominally addressed at 'scholars and students
interested in criminal justice, criminology, psychology, or law' as
the publisher indicates and perhaps challenging for readers outside
of these disciplines, this book about multicide could nonetheless
also be recommended to an audience consisting of the more ambitious
enthusiasts of true crime as well as literary and cultural scholars
interested in the (mis)representation of said crimes. The latter
scholars will find a refreshing perspective differing from the
seductive tendency to create definitive but reductive typologies in
their own fields, while creative writers might find inspiration to
deviate from perpetual stereotypes.
-Moritz Maier, Crime Fiction Studies 3.1 (2022): 75-77
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