Psychopathy, Perversion, and Lust Homicide: Recognizing the Mental Disorders That Power Serial Killers

by Duane L. Dobbert

Book Overview

In this pointed study of serial killers, internationally known Forensic Psychologist Duane Dobbert shows us how - even years before the crimes were commmitted- the perpetrators of lust homicides exhibited behaviors showing certain mental and sexual disorders which grew to fuel the horiffic murders. Dobbert's analysis, covering 13 killers from Herman Mudgett, who confessed to 27 murders in the late 1800s, to Jeffrey Dahmer, who killed 17 young men...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313366217
• ISBN13: 9780313366215
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"