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CONTENTS: The Problem of Murder; The Murderer; Methods of Murder; Victims of Homicide; The Psychology of Murder; The Urge to Confess; Mass Murderers and Serial Murderers; Sex Murders; Madness and Murder; Character Disorder and Murder; Children and Adolescents Who Kill; Self-Murder; Criminal Investigation; The Death Penalty; Prevention of Criminal Homicide; Homicide in Fiction

This paper examines the possibility of teaching the holocaust in Jordanian universities. In this regard, it highlights the socio-religious challenges that may impede such a project and suggests some methods to overcome them. It discusses the material to be taught and the background that should be furnished for students before presenting the topic. The paper draws on academic as well as political sources to enrich the project it proposes.

Introduction -- Cultural development of monsters, demons, and evil -- Psychopathology and biogenics of serial murderers -- Social construction of serial murder -- Sexual predators, criminal paraphilia, and murder -- Healthcare killers -- The male serial murderer -- Team killers -- The female serial murderer -- Victims of serial murder -- Serial murder: a global perspective -- Responding to serial murderers

The situational context in which the serial killer targets his victims is critical to understanding the hunting patterns of a predator. However, police and researchers eschew victim target networks (VTN). Rather, their attention is overwhelmingly concerned with the offender's characteristics.
As an alternative to traditional police investigations, this paper suggests that by directing attention to victim target networks, inferences about the decision-making process underlying the selection of crime locations, victims, and locating offenders' home bases can be made. The paper
presents a decision-making model that the serial predator uses to scope out potential victim target networks and shows how proactive policing in victim target areas can deter the killer. The study also posits that by directing investigative attention to victim social networks, police can first
identify a set of prospective victims targeted by a serial killer. The study closes with suggestions about the applicability of law enforcement use of victims' targeting networks and how victim social networks can be used to link serial murder victims.

Intro -- Mungret College, Limerick - 23 January 1912 -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- Introduction -- 1 'We should take off our hats' -- 2 'For Generations there had been a Demand' -- 3 'Suffer, endure and fight' -- 4 'He got a slash hook and wanted to go out' -- 5 'The Boys Began to Fire' Taking the War to the Crown -- 6 'Praying Hard that their Houses Wouldn't be Burned' -- 7 'Sold and Traced' -- 8 'Without Clergy, Judge or Jury' -- 9 'If you were at their Funeral' -- 10 'The Day Will Come' -- 11 'Murder is Murder' -- Epilogue -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- About the Author -- About the Publisher.

"Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb (d. 860), a specialist in Arab history, tribal genealogy, and poetry, who lived in Baghdad, collected in his Prominent Murder Victims many accounts of murderers and murder victims from the legendary pre-Islamic past, such as how Bilqīs, the Arabic name for the Queen of Sheba, came to power, to the murders ordered by viziers or caliphs in the early Islamic centuries. A lengthy appendix deals with poets from pre- and early Islamic times who were killed. The stories are entertaining as well as informative. Strikingly, the author refrains from explicit moralising. The present book offers a richly annotated English translation together with an improved Arabic text and indexes of persons, places, and rhymes"--

Intro -- About the Author -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Epigraphs -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 THE DUNES -- 2 PEEK-A-BOO -- 3 BOYS WILL BE BOYS -- 4 THE BOAT -- 5 SPEAK SOFTLY AND CARRY A BIG STICK -- 6 THE PEBBLE MEN -- AFTERWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

Examines characteristics of murder victims, murderers, and their relationships, weapons used, circumstances of the killings, and social and economic factors, since 1970; comparison of county level data, 1991-93. Some emphasis on increase in victimization of young Black males, and methods of reducing the homicide rate, including gun control.