Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- PART I: CULTURAL OVERVIEW -- 1 Herostratus -- 2 Son of Cain or Son of Sam? The Monster as Serial Killer in Beowulf -- 3 Towards an Historical Sociology of Multiple Murder -- PART II: ORIGINS OF THE IMPULSE -- 4 A Study of Serial Murder -- 5 Serial Murderers: Early Proposed Developmental Model and Typology -- 6 Detective Magazines: Pornography for the Sexual Sadist? -- 7 Adolescents' Motivations for Viewing Graphic Horror -- 8 'Ideological Homicide' -- PART III: CRIMINOLOGICAL ANALYSIS -- 9 A Murder "Wave"? Trends in American Serial Homicide 1940-1990 -- 10 Serial Murder in England 1940-1985 -- 11 Are Serial Killers Special? -- 12, British Journal of Criminology -- 13 Assessment of PTSD Symptoms in a Community Exposed to Serial Murder -- PART IV: PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS AND THE LAW -- 14 American Psychiatry and the Criminal: A Historical Review -- 15 The Insanity Plea: A Futile Defense for Serial Killers -- 16 Contributions of Psychiatric Consultationin the Investigation of Serial Murder -- 17 The Sexually Sadistic Criminal and His Offenses -- PART V: PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES -- 18 A Study of William Heirens -- 19 The Bianchi (L.A. Hillside Strangler) Case: Sociopath or Multiple Personality? -- 20 Difficulties Diagnosing the Multiple Personality Syndrome in a Death Penalty Case -- 21 On the Differential Diagnosis of Multiple Personality in the Forensic Context -- 22 Towards a New Methodology for Making Sense of Case Material: An Illustrative Case Involving Attempted Multiple Murder -- PART VI: GENDER ISSUES -- 23 Jack the Ripper and the Myth of Male Violence -- 24 Female Serial Murderesses: Constructing Differentiating Typologies -- 25 Gender Differences in Serial Murderers A Preliminary Analysis