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Rethinking Serial Murder, Spree Killing, and Atrocities - Beyond the Usual Distinctions (Hardcover)
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Rethinking Serial Murder, Spree Killing, and Atrocities - Beyond the Usual Distinctions (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
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Multiple killings by serial or spree killers and the mass violence
seen in war crimes and other atrocities have typically been
understood as discrete category types, which can foster the view
that there are fundamentally different kinds of human beings,
including "deviants" who are born evil and innately given to sadism
or a callous lack of empathy. In contrast, this book considers the
violence of these "deviants" in terms of larger questions about
human violence. Therefore, in addition to describing the life
histories of a sample of individual serial and spree murderers, the
book includes analysis of macro-level phenomena such as genocide,
mass rape and killing, and torture occurring under conditions of
war, state authorization, or political upheaval. The chief claim of
the book is that, given the "right" combination of factors
occurring at different levels of analysis, virtually anyone can
emerge as a killer or perpetrator of atrocities. While it is
crucial to understand individual killers in terms of the details of
their biographies, it is equally crucial to understand political
atrocities in terms of the details of their histories; and to see
that persons and groups are always the product of complexly
interacting assemblage processes.
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