Using Murder: The Social Construction of Serial Homicide / Edition 1

by Philip Jenkins

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780202305257
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	12/31/1994
Series:	Social Problems and Social Issues Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1490L (what's this?)

About the Author

Philip Jenkins

Table of Contents

Contents: 1. The construction of problems and panics 2. The reality of serial murder 3. The role of the Justice Department 4. Popular culture: images of the serial killer 5. Serial murder as modern mythology 6, The social critique the kind of society we have now 7. Everyman: serial murder as 'femicide' 8. The racial dimension: serial mider as bias crime 9. A homosexual who could strikie again 10. Darker than we imagine: cults and conspiracies 11. Conclusion: making and establishing claims