Author: William M. Harmening
Publisher: Charles C Thomas Publisher
ISBN: 039808114X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Whether it be Jack the Ripper in nineteenth-century England or Ted Bundy in 1970s America, the public has always been fascinated by the criminal offender type known as the serial killer. Professionals continue to speculate and develop new theories about their identity decades after their crimes ended. But what is it that causes such evilness in individuals that causes them to take an innocent life, not once but multiples times, and for no apparent reason beyond their own perverse psychological gratification? This fascinating book explores this question by looking at the psychosocial determinants of criminal behavior, including serial murder. The role of such internal processes as attachment, moral development, and identity formation in the development of a person’s predisposition to various forms of deviance, including physical and sexual aggression, is reviewed. This information is then applied to actual serial killers, including David Berkowitz (The Son of Sam), Charles Manson, Eric Rudolph (God’s Crusader), Ted Bundy (The Face of Evil), Edmund Kemper (The Co-ed Killer), and the Zodiac Killer, in an effort to construct a psychosocial profile of each and to attempt to pinpoint the various developmental factors that contributed to their eventual criminality. Finally, early intervention strategies are explored that can potentially redirect a child’s developmental trajectory away from crime and deviance, and toward a more adaptive and socially acceptable behavioral repertoire. This book will be an insightful resource to all law enforcement professionals, policymakers, police academics, psychologists, psychiatrists, and many others in the helping professions as well.
SERIAL KILLERS
Author: William M. Harmening
Publisher: Charles C Thomas Publisher
ISBN: 039808114X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Whether it be Jack the Ripper in nineteenth-century England or Ted Bundy in 1970s America, the public has always been fascinated by the criminal offender type known as the serial killer. Professionals continue to speculate and develop new theories about their identity decades after their crimes ended. But what is it that causes such evilness in individuals that causes them to take an innocent life, not once but multiples times, and for no apparent reason beyond their own perverse psychological gratification? This fascinating book explores this question by looking at the psychosocial determinants of criminal behavior, including serial murder. The role of such internal processes as attachment, moral development, and identity formation in the development of a person’s predisposition to various forms of deviance, including physical and sexual aggression, is reviewed. This information is then applied to actual serial killers, including David Berkowitz (The Son of Sam), Charles Manson, Eric Rudolph (God’s Crusader), Ted Bundy (The Face of Evil), Edmund Kemper (The Co-ed Killer), and the Zodiac Killer, in an effort to construct a psychosocial profile of each and to attempt to pinpoint the various developmental factors that contributed to their eventual criminality. Finally, early intervention strategies are explored that can potentially redirect a child’s developmental trajectory away from crime and deviance, and toward a more adaptive and socially acceptable behavioral repertoire. This book will be an insightful resource to all law enforcement professionals, policymakers, police academics, psychologists, psychiatrists, and many others in the helping professions as well.
Publisher: Charles C Thomas Publisher
ISBN: 039808114X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Whether it be Jack the Ripper in nineteenth-century England or Ted Bundy in 1970s America, the public has always been fascinated by the criminal offender type known as the serial killer. Professionals continue to speculate and develop new theories about their identity decades after their crimes ended. But what is it that causes such evilness in individuals that causes them to take an innocent life, not once but multiples times, and for no apparent reason beyond their own perverse psychological gratification? This fascinating book explores this question by looking at the psychosocial determinants of criminal behavior, including serial murder. The role of such internal processes as attachment, moral development, and identity formation in the development of a person’s predisposition to various forms of deviance, including physical and sexual aggression, is reviewed. This information is then applied to actual serial killers, including David Berkowitz (The Son of Sam), Charles Manson, Eric Rudolph (God’s Crusader), Ted Bundy (The Face of Evil), Edmund Kemper (The Co-ed Killer), and the Zodiac Killer, in an effort to construct a psychosocial profile of each and to attempt to pinpoint the various developmental factors that contributed to their eventual criminality. Finally, early intervention strategies are explored that can potentially redirect a child’s developmental trajectory away from crime and deviance, and toward a more adaptive and socially acceptable behavioral repertoire. This book will be an insightful resource to all law enforcement professionals, policymakers, police academics, psychologists, psychiatrists, and many others in the helping professions as well.
The Galaxy
Author: William Conant Church
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Galaxy's End
Author: Richard A. Lupoff
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 1473208580
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
TECHNOLOGY'S GREATEST TRIUMPH. HUMANKIND'S LAST HOPE... Daniel Kitajima was a creature of mind and machine. His artificial limbs were endowed with super-human strength, his perceptual abilities enhanced with telescopic vision, radar and infrared. With proper care, he would live forever - except for one grim inevitable fact... The Solar System itself was about to be destroyed. The sun was heating up, scorching Earth's deserts and transforming its polar icefields into quagmires. The entire galaxy was in danger. And nothing human could halt the oncoming disaster. But Daniel Kitajima was not exactly human...
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 1473208580
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
TECHNOLOGY'S GREATEST TRIUMPH. HUMANKIND'S LAST HOPE... Daniel Kitajima was a creature of mind and machine. His artificial limbs were endowed with super-human strength, his perceptual abilities enhanced with telescopic vision, radar and infrared. With proper care, he would live forever - except for one grim inevitable fact... The Solar System itself was about to be destroyed. The sun was heating up, scorching Earth's deserts and transforming its polar icefields into quagmires. The entire galaxy was in danger. And nothing human could halt the oncoming disaster. But Daniel Kitajima was not exactly human...
Man-Killers of the Air
Author: L. Ron Hubbard
Publisher: Galaxy Press LLC
ISBN: 1592125859
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Take a touch of Charles Lindbergh, mix in a dash of Evel Knievel, throw in one man-killing cat—and you’ve got a recipe for a rip-roaring adventure featuring the high-flying, hard-living Smoke Burnham. There’s not a dare Smoke won’t take, and there’s not a wager he won’t make. Now he’s betting his life that he can fly his plane, Super Comet—with his pet cheetah Patty coming along for the ride—across the mountains and jungles of South America to a prize-winning payday. All he has to do is out-race the competition, out-maneuver a saboteur, and make out with his girl—who’s determined to bring him down to earth. One thing you can count on—in the air, in a fight, or in his girlfriend’s arms—he’s a man who likes to turn up the heat. Because where there’s Smoke, there’s fire. In 1931, as a student at George Washington University, Hubbard founded the college Glider Club and within a few months a respected columnist said “he is recognized as one of the outstanding glider pilots in the country.” Later he wrote as the aviation correspondent for the prestigious flying magazine Sportsman Pilot. His combined writing and flying expertise comprised the perfect recipe to give stories like Man-Killers of the Air their authentic flavor. “Great adventure to keep you on the edge of your seat.” —Gather.com
Publisher: Galaxy Press LLC
ISBN: 1592125859
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Take a touch of Charles Lindbergh, mix in a dash of Evel Knievel, throw in one man-killing cat—and you’ve got a recipe for a rip-roaring adventure featuring the high-flying, hard-living Smoke Burnham. There’s not a dare Smoke won’t take, and there’s not a wager he won’t make. Now he’s betting his life that he can fly his plane, Super Comet—with his pet cheetah Patty coming along for the ride—across the mountains and jungles of South America to a prize-winning payday. All he has to do is out-race the competition, out-maneuver a saboteur, and make out with his girl—who’s determined to bring him down to earth. One thing you can count on—in the air, in a fight, or in his girlfriend’s arms—he’s a man who likes to turn up the heat. Because where there’s Smoke, there’s fire. In 1931, as a student at George Washington University, Hubbard founded the college Glider Club and within a few months a respected columnist said “he is recognized as one of the outstanding glider pilots in the country.” Later he wrote as the aviation correspondent for the prestigious flying magazine Sportsman Pilot. His combined writing and flying expertise comprised the perfect recipe to give stories like Man-Killers of the Air their authentic flavor. “Great adventure to keep you on the edge of your seat.” —Gather.com
Life in the Universe
Author: Lewis Dartnell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1780741634
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Astrobiology, the study of life and its existence in the universe, is one of the hottest areas of scientific research. Lewis Dartnell considers some of the fascinating questions facing researchers today. Could life exist anywhere else in the universe? What might aliens really look like? Dartnell explains why Earth is uniquely suited for life and reveals our profound connection to the cosmos.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1780741634
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Astrobiology, the study of life and its existence in the universe, is one of the hottest areas of scientific research. Lewis Dartnell considers some of the fascinating questions facing researchers today. Could life exist anywhere else in the universe? What might aliens really look like? Dartnell explains why Earth is uniquely suited for life and reveals our profound connection to the cosmos.
The Time Killers
Author: Greg Patmore
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1409230805
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Haven't you ever wondered where time comes from, or what it's made of? Does it go on endlessly, or is there just a certain amount of it, like grains of sand in an egg timer? Is every bit of time the same as every other, or are there different types here and there? Why do some people struggle to cope if they have too much time, whilst others never seem to be able to find enough?What if time works differently for some people? People like Timothy Swift, for instance. He's always trying to find some time, to make time, to buy a little time...because he always has too much to do, and never enough time to do it in.But the funny thing is, no matter how little time Timothy has, he somehow gets everything done. And, remarkably, even when he doesn't have a single moment to spare, he can almost always find enough time do one more thing.And what about dreams? Does time work the same in dreams?
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1409230805
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Haven't you ever wondered where time comes from, or what it's made of? Does it go on endlessly, or is there just a certain amount of it, like grains of sand in an egg timer? Is every bit of time the same as every other, or are there different types here and there? Why do some people struggle to cope if they have too much time, whilst others never seem to be able to find enough?What if time works differently for some people? People like Timothy Swift, for instance. He's always trying to find some time, to make time, to buy a little time...because he always has too much to do, and never enough time to do it in.But the funny thing is, no matter how little time Timothy has, he somehow gets everything done. And, remarkably, even when he doesn't have a single moment to spare, he can almost always find enough time do one more thing.And what about dreams? Does time work the same in dreams?
Serial Killers
Author: Michael Newton
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438117256
Category : Criminal investigation
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
From ancient times to the present, serial killers have terrorized the public, claiming their victims with a variety of methods, including poisoning, stabbing, and shooting. Modern law enforcement agents have developed sophisticated techniques, such as DNA analysis and psychological profiling, to track and identify these killers. Covering key historical and contemporary cases, Serial Killers is a concise, objective introduction to this field of criminal investigation. This book includes such chapters as: Murder by Numbers; Monsters Among Us; Lethal Ladies; Still at Large; and, The Mind hunters. Cases covered include: Erzsebet Bathory; the Beltway Snipers; David Berkowitz, a.k.a. 'Son of Sam'; John Wayne Gacy; Micajah and Wiley Harpe; Jack the Ripper; Herman Webster Mudgett, aka 'H.H. Holmes'; Gary Leon Ridgway, a.k.a. 'The Green River Killer'; and, Aileen Wuornos.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438117256
Category : Criminal investigation
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
From ancient times to the present, serial killers have terrorized the public, claiming their victims with a variety of methods, including poisoning, stabbing, and shooting. Modern law enforcement agents have developed sophisticated techniques, such as DNA analysis and psychological profiling, to track and identify these killers. Covering key historical and contemporary cases, Serial Killers is a concise, objective introduction to this field of criminal investigation. This book includes such chapters as: Murder by Numbers; Monsters Among Us; Lethal Ladies; Still at Large; and, The Mind hunters. Cases covered include: Erzsebet Bathory; the Beltway Snipers; David Berkowitz, a.k.a. 'Son of Sam'; John Wayne Gacy; Micajah and Wiley Harpe; Jack the Ripper; Herman Webster Mudgett, aka 'H.H. Holmes'; Gary Leon Ridgway, a.k.a. 'The Green River Killer'; and, Aileen Wuornos.
The Children of the Earth
Author: Craig Hole
Publisher: Craig Hole
ISBN: 1311761128
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Humanity was on the brink, fighting a war they couldn't hope to win. Facing death they sacrificed everything to create the ultimate weapon. Now he’s one of the last ones left and he’s looking for a way to die, a way to repent for what he was made to do and a way to get revenge. Haunted by the war and the side effects of the horrific things done to him he remembers the Children of the Earth
Publisher: Craig Hole
ISBN: 1311761128
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Humanity was on the brink, fighting a war they couldn't hope to win. Facing death they sacrificed everything to create the ultimate weapon. Now he’s one of the last ones left and he’s looking for a way to die, a way to repent for what he was made to do and a way to get revenge. Haunted by the war and the side effects of the horrific things done to him he remembers the Children of the Earth
Nexus Omnibus Volume 8
Author: Various
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 1630086665
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Created by Mike Baron and Steve Rude, Nexus is a superhero/science-fiction masterpiece! This value-priced omnibus collects Nexus: The Wages of Sin #1–#4, Nexus: Executioner’s Song #1–#4, Nexus: God Con #1–#2, Nexus: Nightmare in Blue #1–#4,and Nexus Meets Madman! * Multiple Eisner Award winner! * Over 350 pages! * Featuring a guest appearance from Mike Allred’s Madman!
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 1630086665
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Created by Mike Baron and Steve Rude, Nexus is a superhero/science-fiction masterpiece! This value-priced omnibus collects Nexus: The Wages of Sin #1–#4, Nexus: Executioner’s Song #1–#4, Nexus: God Con #1–#2, Nexus: Nightmare in Blue #1–#4,and Nexus Meets Madman! * Multiple Eisner Award winner! * Over 350 pages! * Featuring a guest appearance from Mike Allred’s Madman!
The Serial Hunter: A Sci-Fi Novella
Author: Rick Anthony
Publisher: Rick Anthony
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
In a vast galaxy teeming with life and danger, the most elite female assassin—a blend of human, vampire, and cyborg—is hired by the government to hunt down and eliminate serial killers terrorizing the galaxy. Her incredible skills and deadly precision make her the perfect weapon, but as the bodies pile up and the secrets unravel, she finds herself at the center of a much larger conspiracy.
Publisher: Rick Anthony
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
In a vast galaxy teeming with life and danger, the most elite female assassin—a blend of human, vampire, and cyborg—is hired by the government to hunt down and eliminate serial killers terrorizing the galaxy. Her incredible skills and deadly precision make her the perfect weapon, but as the bodies pile up and the secrets unravel, she finds herself at the center of a much larger conspiracy.