In this book, Gregoriou explores the portrayal of the serial killer identity and its related ideology across a range of contemporary crime narratives, including detective fiction, the true crime ...genre and media journalism. How exactly is the serial killer consciousness portrayed, how is the killing linguistically justified, and how distinguishing is the language revolving around criminal ideology and identity across these narrative genres? By employing linguistic and content-related methods of analysis, her study aims to work toward the development of a stylistic framework on the representation of serial killer ideology across factual (i.e. media texts), factional (i.e. true crime books) and fictional (i.e. novels) murder narratives. ‘Schema’ is a term commonly used to refer to organised bundles of knowledge in our brains, which are activated once we come across situations we have previously experienced, a ‘group schema’ being one such inventory shared by many. By analysing serial murder narratives across various genres, Gregoriou uncovers a widely shared ‘group schema’ for these murderers, and questions the extent to which real criminal minds are in fact linguistically fictionalised. Gregoriou’s study of the mental functioning and representation of criminal personas can help illuminate our schematic understanding of actual criminal minds.
Christiana Gregoriou is a lecturer in English Stylistics at the University of Leeds. She has an interest in the linguistic make-up of literary texts, and crime narratives in particular. She's published on the criminal mind style, a book on English Literary Stylistics and a monograph on Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction .
1. Crime Scenes 2. Killer Headlines 3. True Crime! 4. Buying Crime 5. The Verdict
Killer Fandom is the first long-form treatment of serial killer fandom. Fan studies have mostly ignored this most moralized form of fandom, as a stigmatized Bad Other in implicit tension with the ...field’s successful campaign to recuperate the broader fan category. Yet serial killer fandom, as Judith May Fathallah shows in the book, can be usefully studied with many of the field’s leading analytic frameworks. After tracing the pre-digital history of fans, mediated celebrity, and killers, Fathallah examines contemporary fandom through the lens of textual poaching, affective community, subcultural capital, and play. With close readings of fan posts, comments, and mashups on Tumblr, TikTok, and YouTube, alongside documentaries, podcasts, and a thriving “murderabilia” industry, Killer Fandom argues that this fan culture is, in many ways, hard to distinguish from more “mainstream” fandoms. Fan creations around Aileen Wuornos, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, and Richard Ramirez, among others, demonstrate a complex and shifting stance toward their objects—marked by parodic humor and irony in many cases. Killer Fandom ultimately questions—given our crime-and violence-saturated media culture—whether it makes sense to set Dahmer and Wuornos “fans” apart from the rest of us.
In October of 2002, a series of sniper attacks paralyzed the Washington Beltway, turning normally placid gas stations, parking lots, restaurants, and school grounds into chaotic killing fields. After ...the spree, ten people were dead and several others wounded. The perpetrators were forty-one-year-old John Allen Muhammad and his seventeen-year-old protégé, Lee Boyd Malvo.
The aim of the current research was to provide a new method for mapping the developmental sequences of serial killers' life histories. The role of early childhood abuse, leading to types of serial ...murder and behaviours involved in the murders, was analysed using Behaviour Sequence Analysis. A large database (n=233) of male serial killers with known childhood abuse (physical, sexual, or psychological) was analysed according to typologies and crime scene behaviours. Behaviour Sequence Analysis was used to show significant links between behaviours and events across their lifetime. Sexual, physical, and psychological abuse often led to distinct crime scene behaviours. The results provide individual accounts of abuse types and behaviours. The present research highlights the importance of childhood abuse as a risk factor for serial killers' behaviours, and provides a novel and important advance in profiling serial killers and understanding the sequential progression of their life histories.
Découvrez les plus célèbres psychopathes de l'histoire... Carl Panzram fut victime de viol collectif à l'âge de 14 ans. Pour se venger, il viola à son tour un bon millier de jeunes garçons et ...d'hommes adultes, et commit plus de vingt meurtres. Ed Kemper tua sa grand-mère d'une balle dans la tête et de deux dans le dos. Il ne s'arrêta pas en si bon chemin, il assassina aussi son grand-père, sa mère, son frère et six auto-stoppeuses. Jerry Brudos étrangla Jan Whitney chez lui et, non content, se reput, pendant plusieurs jours, du spectacle du corps de la jeune fille pendu au plafond. Pietro Pacciani assassina le rival qui avait couché avec sa fiancée. Pacciani poignarda l'homme de 19 coups de couteau et viola aussi le corps sans vie. John Marlowe nous propose d'étudier la vie de ces hommes, et de nombreux autres, qui figurent parmi les plus dangereux et les plus infâmes de l'histoire du crime. Sans concession aucune et sans tabou, il nous livre ici les moindres détails de ces crimes, pour une horrible mais captivante descente dans l'esprit des "plus célèbre psychopathes". Les secrets des plus affreux crimes de l'Histoire enfin révélés A PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR : John Marlowe est écrivain, journaliste et vit à Vancouver. Il collabore à plusieurs célèbres périodiques canadiens et américains et a écrit plus d'une vingtaine de documentaires pour Radio Canada International. EXTRAIT : Pages sanglantes de l'Histoire L'Histoire connaît un nombre incroyable d'individus qui se rendirent coupables d'actes d'une atrocité sans nom. Parmi ceux-ci, il y eut certains aristocrates. Abusant de leur statut de privilégiés et de leur position de force, ils purent tuer, violer et torturer en toute impunité, mais pour un temps seulement. Certains de ces personnages historiques sont devenus des légendes dans la culture de leur pays, et ceux qui commirent des actes
particulièrement horribles acquirent même une notoriété mondiale.
The Ludwig group is usually described by the media as a group of serial killers operating in Italy during the so-called Years of Lead. The present article examines the structure and the nature of the ...group's language through a multidimensional approach to rediscuss its current classification and description. The source material of the analysis is represented by the handwritten leaflets released by the group to claim its actions. The collected material, comprised of seven leaflets released by the Ludwig group in 1980-1984, has been examined through the analysis of language register, syntactic and rhetorical structure, adopted lexicon and co-occurrences. According to the analysis of the group's language and messages it passed on, this paper suggests that the political nature of the Ludwig group receives its inspiration from Nazi ideology. The ideology that inspired the group's violent actions must be brought back to Nazi Ideology, especially to the ideas of what is generally known as Esoteric Nazism.
Serial Killers Around the World: The Global Dimensions of Serial Murder compiles serial murder case studies from several countries - from Australia to Great Britain, and from Japan to Pakistan. The ...author has covered accounts on a wide array of serial killers including some well known felons namely Jack the Ripper, The Butcher of Mons, Martin & Marie Dumollard, as well as some of the lesser known serial slayers such as Daisy DeMelker, Yoshio Kodaira, Javed Iqbal and many more. The book highlights six dimensions of each case: the killer(s), the serial murders, other crimes, communication, the investigation and trial and punishment of the accused. Readers, both general and aspiring criminologists alike, will find Serial Killers Around the World an interesting resource for critical information on serial murders committed in nations around the world.
The aim of the current research was to provide a new method for mapping the developmental sequences of serial killers' life histories. The role of early childhood abuse, leading to types of serial ...murder and behaviours involved in the murders, was analysed using Behaviour Sequence Analysis. A large database (n=233) of male serial killers with known childhood abuse (physical, sexual, or psychological) was analysed according to typologies and crime scene behaviours. Behaviour Sequence Analysis was used to show significant links between behaviours and events across their lifetime. Sexual, physical, and psychological abuse often led to distinct crime scene behaviours. The results provide individual accounts of abuse types and behaviours. The present research highlights the importance of childhood abuse as a risk factor for serial killers' behaviours, and provides a novel and important advance in profiling serial killers and understanding the sequential progression of their life histories.
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