Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives-

Who are the men committing the rising number of serial homicides in the U.S. -- and why do they kill? The increase in these violent crimes over the past decade has created an urgent need for more and better information about these men: their crime scene patterns, violent acts, and above all, their motivations for committing these shocking and repetitive murders.This authoritative book represents the data, findings, and implications of a long-term F.B.I.-sponsored study of serial sex killers. Specially trained F.B.I. agents examined thirty-six convicted, incarcerated sexual murderers to build a valuable new bank of information which reveals the world of the serial sexual killer in both quantitative and qualitative detail. Data was obtained from official psychiatric and criminal records, court transcripts, and prison reports, as well as from extensive interviews with the offenders themselves.Featured in this book is detailed information on the F.B.I.'s recently developed Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (VICAP) and a sample of an actual VICAP Crime Analysis Report Form.

Robert K. Ressler is retired from the F.B.I. and is now associate director for Forensic Behavioral Services in Virginia.

Contents

Figures and Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments

1. The Study of Murder
2. Growing Up to Murder: The Social Environment and Formative Events
3. Preoccupation with Murder: Patterned Responses
4. Antecedent Behaviors and the Act of Murder
5. After the Murder
6. A Motivational Model for Sexual Homicide
7. The National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime
8. Crime Scene and Profile Characteristics of Organized and Disorganized Murderers
9. Criminal Profiling from Crime Scene Analysis
10. The Role of Forensic Pathology in Criminal Profiling
James L. Luke, M.D.
11. Interviewing Convicted Murderers
12. The Police Artist and Composite Drawings
Horace J. Heafner
13. The Victim's Family and Its Response to Trauma
14. Victims: Lessons Learned for Responses to Sexual Violence
Daniel L. Carter, Robert A. Prentky, and Ann W. Burgess
15. Murderers: A Postscript

Appendix: VICAP Crime Analysis Report
Index
About the Authors

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