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Public Interest in Mass and Serial Murder.- Concepts of Evil.- Mass Murder.- Serial Murder.- Preventing Homicide.

About the Author

Dr. Christine M. Sarteschi, LCSW is an Assistant Professor of Social Work & Criminology. She holds a Ph.D. in social work from the University of Pittsburgh, has approximately 10 years of post-master's clinical social work experience and is a licensed clinical social worker in the state of Pennsylvania. Professor Sarteschi's primary research interests cover a wide range of behavioral science topics including improving police and community relations, mental illness and crime, involuntary hospitalization, cold case research, mental health courts, mass murder, homicidal ideation, and violent and predatory offenders. She is a member of the Department of Justice National Initiative for Building Community and Trust research team, tasked with improving relations and trust between communities and the criminal justice system. She is also a consulting committee member of The American Investigative Society of Cold Cases (AISOCC), an organization of professional investigators who actively assist law enforcement with cold case investigations. Her research has appeared in The British Journal of Social Work, Research on Social Work Practice, the Journal of Forensic Social Work, the Journal of Criminal Justice, among others. Dr. Sarteschi has also has served as a peer reviewer for the National Science Foundation as well as other scholarly journals.