Dramaturgical Approach to Understanding the Serial Homicides of Ted - Impressions of Murder

Ted Bundy withheld his darkest secrets from police, journalists, and psychologists. While on death row he shared these hidden insights with his closest friends in the Florida State Prison. Finally, a way to make sense of the mysteries regarding all of Bundy's perversions, his biggest influences, his secret dump sites, and what happened to his victims. Using Erving Goffman's concept of dramaturgy, this book is an insider's guide to the reality of what Bundy shared behind-the-scenes with fellow inmates and how he constructed a different identity backstage to what he revealed at the front stage. This work presents the uncensored, multi-layered, graphic details of this most notorious of murder careers, and in doing so provides readers with a comprehensive and authentic account of Ted Bundy.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Front Stage, Backstage and Sexual Homicide Typologies
Chapter 2: Unsolved Homicide Cases
Chapter 3: Victimology
Chapter 4: The Significance of Souvenirs
Chapter 5: Methods of Dispatch
Chapter 6: Revisiting Ted Bundy's Signature Themes
Chapter 7: Ted Bundy's First Murder
Chapter 8: Validation and Significant Influences
Chapter 9: Victim Totals
Chapter 10: Possession and Perversion
Chapter 11: Front Stage Narratives
Chapter 12: Front and Backstage Principles

About the author

Bernard East teaches sociology at Deakin University, Australia.

Product details

• Authors: Bernard East
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781793625045
• ISBN: 978-1-79362-504-5
• No. of pages: 178
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sexual Abuse & Harassment, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Sexual abuse & harassment, Violence in society, Crime & criminology, Violence & abuse in society, Influences;Sadism;Secrets;Serial Killer;Ted Bundy