Dedication Introduction: Mass Murder and Its Classifications Howard Unruh: America's First Modern Mass Killer Buildup to Horror The Classic Mass Murderer Mental Illness and the Compulsive Killer Deadly Children Family Massacres Going Postal: The Disgruntled Employee Visionary Mass Murder: Religion and Politics Spreading the Damage Murder on the Side Stress, Murder, Madness, and Risk Assessment Sources Author Bio
"This is not just a comprehensive series of stories about incidents of mass murder, which is compelling enough, but this book also gets to the underlying psychopathology of these cases that other studies have missed." -- Gregg McCrary, former Supervisory Special Agent, FBI Behavioral Science Unit, and author of The Unknown Darkness: Profiling the Predators among Us
Katherine Ramsland teaches forensic psychology at DeSales University in Pennsylvania and has published twenty-three books.
[H]ighly recommended for large public and university libraries,
given the tremendous interest in the psychology of killers.
*Library Journal*
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