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Elizabeth A. Gurian, Serial and Mass Murder: Understanding Multicide through Offending Patterns, Explanations, and Outcomes

Elizabeth A. Gurian, Serial and Mass Murder: Understanding Multicide through Offending Patterns,... BOOK REVIEWS Elizabeth A. Gurian, Serial and Mass Murder: Understanding Multicide through Offending Patterns, Explanations, and Outcomes. Routledge, 2021. GBP £120.00 (hbk); £36.99 (ebk), 978-1-138-06794-3 (hbk); 978-1-315- 15838-9 (ebk), 298 pages. Reviewed by Moritz Maier Serial murder is… complicated. Albeit in turn simplistic, this statement encapsulates not only a problem faced by researchers into the subject matter but also an incongruity with its often reductive cultural representation, and hence its reception. Surrounded by a tantalising sense of mysteriousness, serial killers continue to strangely fascinate; indeed, over the last decades serial murder has come to occupy a significant segment of crime fiction as well as the ‘true crime’ genre. Likewise, events of mass murder, whether acts of terrorism or committed by unstable individuals because of some personal grievance, dominate the media whenever they occur. As different as both types of homicide may appear, one aspect they have in common is that they immediately conjure distinct imaginations of perpetrators, ranging from the mentally ill to alluringly brilliant deviants, from violent ‘Rippers’ to promiscuous ‘black widows’, from socially awkward recluses to fundamen- talists and fanatics. Serial and Mass Murder by Elizabeth Gurian seeks to dispel such stereotypes and myths through empirical research http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Crime Fiction Studies Edinburgh University Press

Elizabeth A. Gurian, Serial and Mass Murder: Understanding Multicide through Offending Patterns, Explanations, and Outcomes

Maier, Moritz
Crime Fiction Studies , Volume 3 (1): 3 – Mar 1, 2022
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BOOK REVIEWS Elizabeth A. Gurian, Serial and Mass Murder: Understanding Multicide through Offending Patterns, Explanations, and Outcomes. Routledge, 2021. GBP £120.00 (hbk); £36.99 (ebk), 978-1-138-06794-3 (hbk); 978-1-315- 15838-9 (ebk), 298 pages. Reviewed by Moritz Maier Serial murder is… complicated. Albeit in turn simplistic, this statement encapsulates not only a problem faced by researchers into the subject matter but also an incongruity with its often reductive cultural representation, and hence its reception. Surrounded by a tantalising sense of mysteriousness, serial killers continue to strangely fascinate; indeed, over the last decades serial murder has come to occupy a significant segment of crime fiction as well as the ‘true crime’ genre. Likewise, events of mass murder, whether acts of terrorism or committed by unstable individuals because of some personal grievance, dominate the media whenever they occur. As different as both types of homicide may appear, one aspect they have in common is that they immediately conjure distinct imaginations of perpetrators, ranging from the mentally ill to alluringly brilliant deviants, from violent ‘Rippers’ to promiscuous ‘black widows’, from socially awkward recluses to fundamen- talists and fanatics. Serial and Mass Murder by Elizabeth Gurian seeks to dispel such stereotypes and myths through empirical research

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Published: Mar 1, 2022

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