Murder in plain English From manifestos to memes - looking at murder through the words of killers
Book - 2017
"The first book to examine murder through written words. A criminologist and an anthropologist explore the motives for murder by analyzing the writings of convicted killers as well as depictions of murder in literature and the media"--
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Amherst, New York :
Prometheus Books
2017.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Item Description
- Includes index.
- Physical Description
- 335 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBN
- 9781633882539
- Preface
- Prologue: Pen Names and Criminal Minds
- Chapter 1. The Tale of Murder
- What Is Murder?
- Motives for Murder
- Murder as Tragedy
- Murder and Free Will
- Murder as Means
- Gothic Tales of Murder
- Narrative Perspectives of Murder
- Metaphors
- Murder in the Name of Honor
- Murder on Social Media
- Is There Truly a Tale of Murder?
- Chapter 2. This is the Zodiac Speaking
- Some Statistics
- Who Are Serial Killers?
- The Zodiac-Senior and Junior
- Self-Importance
- Monsters
- Vampires
- Predators
- The Oedipus Complex
- Back to the Top
- Chapter 3. Dark Odysseys
- Mass Murder
- Malignant Narcissism
- The Schizoid Killer
- School Shooters
- Team Killers, Sole Authors
- One-Way Trips
- Chapter 4. Hypertext #Homicide
- Cyber Screeds
- Psychopathy
- Lonely Hearts
- Online Allurements
- Generation Meme
- Anti-Social Media
- Chapter 5. So, Why Murder?
- A Murder Instinct?
- Culture, Evolution, and Murder
- Back to Freud
- Literary Criminology
- SCAN of Murder
- Thou Shalt Not Kill
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index