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Although serial offenders have been a recognized problem in society for centuries, only recently have the complexities of these individuals come to light. Serial Offenders: Current Thought, Recent Findings presents current and inclusive information on serial offending in a clear and straightforward manner.
Citing numerous case examples, this book will provide forensic psychologists and psychologists, as well as criminologists, social workers and corrections officials with relevant and informative data.
Author Louis B. Schlesinger presents current thinking on serial offenders in the first of three parts contained in the text. In Part I, he covers serial homicide, child molestation, rape, arson, and the nonviolent serial offender, while offering new information and perspectives on these traditional problems.
Part II reverses thought, and takes a look at recent clinical and research findings. From profiling by law-enforcement and health-care workers to the neurobiological approach to understanding why people continually commit these crimes, Part II delves beyond right and wrong to illuminate and identify the many shades of gray.
Part III focuses on the unusual aspects of serial offending and on special populations of offenders. From infantophilia to serial offending by females, adolescents and members of the clergy, Schlesinger provides insight into a world that few have witnessed in such a comprehensive manner.
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CURRENT THOUGHT ON SERIAL OFFENDERS. Serial Homicide: Sadism, Fantasy and a Compulsion to Kill, Louis B. Schlesinger. Child Sexual Abusers: A Review and Update, Sharon K. Araji. Serial Rape: An Evolutionary Perspective, Craig T. Palmer. Serial Arson: Repetitive Firesetting and Pyromania, Mary Mavromatis. The Nonviolent Serial Offender: Exhibitionism, Frotteurism, and Telephone Scatologia, Richard B. Krueger and Meg S. Kaplan. RECENT CLINICAL AND RESEARCH FINDINGS. Investigation of the Serial Offender, Robert D. Keppel. The Predator's Brain: Neuropsychodynamics of Serial Killing, Laurence Miller. Serial Stalkers: Recent Clinical Findings, Robert Lloyd-Goldstein. Serial Burglary: A Spectrum of Behaviors, Motives and Dynamics, Louis B. Schlesinger. Men Who Sexually Harass Women, John B. Pryor and Andrea B. Meyers. UNUSUAL SYNDROMES AND SPECIAL POPULATIONS. Infantophiles, David M. Greenburg, Philip Firestone, John M. Bradford and Ian Broom. Cleric Serial Offenders: Clinical Characteristics and Treatment Approaches, Thomas W, Haywood and Jack Green. Female Serial Offenders, A.J. Cooper. Serial Offending by Children and Adoloescents, Wade C. Myers and Marian J. Borg. Survivors, Families and Co-victims of Serial Offenders, Laurence Miller and Louis B. Schlesinger
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Louis B. Schlesinger
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Featuring topics rarely covered by other books, Serial Offenders: Current Thought, Recent Findings presents inclusive information on serial offending in a clear and straightforward manner. Presenting valuable information on serial offenders, this book provides unparalleled insight into a world that few have witnessed.
