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A paper which looks in detail at the social phenomenon of serial killing, with reference to sociological, psychological and biological theories. The paper also considers specific examples of serial killers, in particular Aileen Wuornos. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
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extensive publicity given to cases such as that of Bundy or Dahmer, and the popularity of serial murder as a theme in fictional works such as "Silence of the Lambs".
This does not, though, indicate by any means that serial killings and other forms of multiple homicide are unknown in other countries: one only has to consider Jack the Ripper,
Christie, the Yorkshire Ripper in Britain; Milat, Bunting and Wagner in Australia, to see that this is an international phenomenon. However,
as Mitchell (1997) points out, despite a perceived increase in serial killings and considerable media interest in the issue, there is as yet no serious multi-disciplinary research into the phenomenon.
Mitchell notes that most theses pertaining to the aetiology of the crime are generally aligned with biological, sociological or psychiatric explanations and there has been comparatively little effort to correlate
these from a multi-disciplinary standpoint. In addition, many of the studies which have been carried out are based on court reports, media reports and other second-hand sources.
Mitchells own research, therefore, looks to integrate the various biological, psychological and sociological models which are already extant into a more coherent study
of the subject. He notes that many earlier studies tend to focus on a psychiatric model (such as Abrahamsen, 1973) or with what he refers to as a "peculiar pseudo-biology"
(Mitchell, 1997) which is dependent on "fashionable" biological theories relating to crime, such as those expressed in Leyton (1983). He also
makes the salient point that many of the best sociological approaches tend to be those found in texts aimed at the popular readership (such as Masters "The Shrine of Jeffrey
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