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serial killers

Description: People who commit multiple separate murders over an extended period, often with intervals between the killings.
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Serial Murderers and Their Victims.
1992 · James Alan Fox, Eric W. Hickey · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 545
Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives
1988 · Robert K. Ressler, Ann Wolbert Burgess, et al. · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 520
The anatomy of violence: the biological roots of crime
2013 · Choice Reviews Online · 444
Serial killers: death and life in America's wound culture
1998 · Choice Reviews Online · 310
On monsters: an unnatural history of our worst fears
2010 · Asma, Stephen T. 1966- · Choice Reviews Online · 263
Successful and unsuccessful psychopaths: A neurobiological model
2010 · Yu Gao, Adrian Raine · Behavioral Sciences & the Law · 259
The Organized/Disorganized Typology of Serial Murder: Myth or Model?
2004 · David V. Canter, Laurence J. Alison, et al. · Psychology Public Policy and Law · 240
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Serial Killers: Death and Life in America's Wound Culture
1999 · Ellen Victoria Nerenberg · Modernism/modernity · 224
Serial Murder: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives for Investigators
2008 · Robert J. Morton, Mark A. Hilts, et al. · 201
Multiple Homicide: Patterns of Serial and Mass Murder
1998 · James Alan Fox, Jack Levin · Crime and Justice · 200
Classification of human natural killer cells based on migration behavior and cytotoxic response
2013 · Bruno Vanherberghen, Per E. Olofsson, et al. · Blood · 196
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The Sexually Sadistic Serial Killer
1996 · JI Warren, RR Hazelwood, et al. · Journal of Forensic Sciences · 195
Predicting Serial Killers' Home Base Using a Decision Support System
2000 · David Canter, Toby Coffey, et al. · Journal of Quantitative Criminology · 190
Extreme killing: understanding serial and mass murder
2006 · Choice Reviews Online · 188
Whoever Fights Monsters
1992 · Robert K. Ressler, Tom Shachtman · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 181
From Animal Cruelty to Serial Murder: Applying the Graduation Hypothesis
2003 · Jeremy Wright, Christopher Hensley · International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology · 169
Serial Murder: An Elusive Phenomenon
1991 · Kathleen M. Heide, Stephen Egger · The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1973-) · 145
Hard-boiled sentimentality: the secret history of American crime stories
2009 · Choice Reviews Online · 140
Investigative Psychology: Offender Profiling and the Analysis of Criminal Action
1996 · David Canter, Donna Youngs · University of Huddersfield Repository (University of Huddersfield) · 139
Serial killers, spiders and cybersex: Social and survival information bias in the transmission of urban legends
2014 · Joseph M. Stubbersfield, Jamshid J. Tehrani, et al. · British Journal of Psychology · 137
Antisocial Personality Disorder, Sexual Sadism, Malignant Narcissism, and Serial Murder
1997 · VJ Geberth, RN Turco · Journal of Forensic Sciences · 107
Neurodevelopmental and psychosocial risk factors in serial killers and mass murderers
2014 · Clare S. Allely, Helen Minnis, et al. · Aggression and Violent Behavior · 106
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
2003 · Erik Larson · 103
The Case of Jeffrey Dahmer: Sexual Serial Homicide from a Neuropsychiatric Developmental Perspective
2002 · JA Silva, MM Ferrari, et al. · Journal of Forensic Sciences · 103
Modern serial killers
2009 · Kevin D. Haggerty · Crime Media Culture An International Journal · 100
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Citation count: 17,130
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