Creating Cultural Monsters
Subtitle: Serial Murder in America
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Hoboken
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9781439851555
Subjects: Serial murderers; Serial murders in mass media; Serial murders; Violence in popular culture; Social Science
Description: 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 between American culture and the incidence of serial murder, including reasons why most identified serial murderers are white, male Americans. It describes the omnipresence of serial murder in American media and investigates what it would take to decrea.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Fundamentals of Serial Murder; Chapter 3: The "Typical" Serial Murderer; Chapter 4: Existing Explanations for Serial Murder; Chapter 5: Cultural Context of Serial Murder; Chapter 6: Applying the Model of American Culture; Chapter 7: Implications; Appendix: Methodology; References; Author; Back Cover.