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Legends, Monsters, or Serial Murderers? the Real Story Behind an Ancient Crime

Hardcover • 2012 • English

Legends, Monsters, or Serial Murderers? the Real Story Behind an Ancient Crime

By Dirk C. Gibson

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The majority of serial murder studies support the consensus that serial murder is essentially an American crime--a flawed assumption, as the United States has existed for less than 250 years. What is far more likely is that the perverse urge to repeatedly and intentionally kill has existed throughout human history, and that a substantial percentage of serial murders throughout ancient times, the middle ages, and the pre-modern era were attributed to imaginative surrogate explanations: dragons, d...Show more

Jurisprudence and general issues
Methods, theory and philosophy of law
Systems of law

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9780313397585

Published year

2012

Language

English

Original title

Legends, Monsters, or Serial Murderers? the Real Story Behind an Ancient Crime

Format

Hardcover

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