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SUMMER 2007 Serial Murder: Myths Vs LOYOLA UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANS – SUMMER 2007 Serial Murder: Myths vs. Realities CRJU C420 W51 Instructor: Dr. William E. Thornton Office: Stallings Room 124 Phone: 504-865-2134 Dept. Phone: 504-865-3323 E-mail: [email protected] Dates and times: The online course will follow an eight week format with the dates noted on the syllabus. The course begins on June 2, 2008 and will end on July 27, 2008. I. Course Description: The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with the field of serial murder. Serial murder has come to be known as a problem of severe proportion and growing concern. Despite almost a mythical interest in the phenomenon, relatively few scientific studies have been undertaken on the prevalence, etiology, investigation and understanding of the crime of serial murder. Some experts explain how serial murder flows so often from extraordinary psychological processes in which offenders get caught up in a self-perpetuating cycle of violence fantasies, violence facilitators (alcohol, pornography, etc.), and catalytic “routine” traumas of daily living. Other experts attempt to provide homogeneous typologies of serial murderers hoping that a fine tuned classification schema can be a useful tool in both profiling and apprehending serial offenders. Still other experts utilize a case study approach hoping to understand in depth how serial murderers think, how they stalk their victims, and how they derive satisfaction from their grizzly deeds. We review both the scientific and practitioner literature on serial murder to try to understand, control, and prevent the crime from occurring. II. Course Format: The eight week course of instruction is designed to familiarize you with the field of serial murder within the context of the broader discipline of criminology. You are expected to read and review materials listed on the syllabus during the period of time specified for the designated material. To a large extent, the quality of your written assignments will necessitate that you read and engage in a literature review of several core areas in serial murder research. I think you will find the materials to be extremely interesting. 1 Orientation Lecture: Be sure to view my short Orientation lecture to the course to better understand how the course will be conducted. The course is offered online and as you can see from the Course Syllabus below, there are eight (8) contact sessions with the first session beginning June 2, 2008. We will cover a different topic on serial murder each week. Each session begins with a 30 minute or longer lecture from me on the subject matter. Included on the syllabus for each week are required readings from the books and other sources, links to PowerPoint material, film (s), other links related to specific information, content, as well as questions for group discussions which will take place each Friday at 4:00 PM. (We may change this time depending on our various schedules.) Please feel free to contact me by email if you have any questions at any time during the course. III. Grading Scale: 93 – 100 = A; 84 – 92 = B; 76 – 83 = C; 63 – 75 = D Weights for the class assignments can be found under Section VI: Class Requirements. IV. Course Materials: You may elect to order the books yourself online from a private vendor such as Amazon or the Loyola University New Orleans bookstore (order online from Loyola Website). The CD titled Mind of a Killer may be picked up in the Department of Criminal Justice main office, Stallings 122 after 1:30 each day or the disk can be mailed to you if you contact me by email with your mailing address. Required Books (1) Eric W. Hickey. Serial Murderers and Their Victims (4th Edition). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thompson Leaning, 2006 (ISBN 0534630189). This is the most recent edition of this book and is in paperback. (2) Phillip C. Shon and Dragan Milovanovic. Serial Killers: Understanding Lust Murder. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2006. ISBN 159460178X. (3) Stacey L. Shipley and Bruce A. Arrigo. The Female Homicide Offender: Serial Murder and the Case of Aileen Wurornos. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2004 (ISBN 0131141619) (4) Robert Keppel. Signature Killers. Interpreting the Calling Cards of the Serial Killer. New York: Pocket Books, 1997 paperback (This is a classic and out of print but you can only obtain a used copy for about $5.00 online.) Suggested Books but not required (5) Brian Lane and Wilfred Gregg. The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers. New York: Berkeley Books, 1995 or Michael Newton, The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers (also included in the under Library heading). New York: Checkmark Books, 2000. (There are several of these encyclopedias in hardcopy and online which give both biographical details of the serial murderer and his/her offenses as well as victimology information.) (6) Robert K. Ressler. I Have Lived in the Monster: Inside the Minds of the World’s Most Notorious Serial Killers. New York: St. Martins, 1997 – classic FBI profiler 2 (7) John Douglas and Mark Olshaker. Mind Hunter. Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit. New York: Pocket Books, 1995 – classic FBI profiler (8) Thomas Guillen. 2007. Serial Killers: Issues Explored Through the Green River Murders. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson/Prentice Hall (9) Robert D. Keppel and William J. Birnes. 2003. The Psychology of Serial Killer Investigations: The Grisly Business Unit. Boston, MA: Academic Press (10) Robert K. Ressler, Ann W. Burgess and John E. Douglass. Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives. 1992. New York: The Free Press (11) John E. Douglas, Ann. W. Burgess, Allen G. Burgess, and Robert K. Ressler. 1997. Crime Classification Manual: A Standard System for Investigating and Classifying Violent Crimes. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass (12) Karen J. Terry. Sexual Offenses and Offenders: Theory, Practice and Policy. 2006. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth (13) Ronald M. Holmes and Stephen T. Holmes. Profiling Violent Crimes. 2002. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Materials on line (14) William E. Thornton. Investigative Psychological Profiling (15) Mind of a Killer CD. (Copy made available to study. Pick up CD in Department of Criminal Justice Departmental Office, Stallings 122) (16) Beatrice Crofts Yorker, et al. Serial Murder by Healthcare Professionals. Journal of Forensic Science, November 2006, pp. 1362-1371 Materials on E- reserve at Loyola Monroe Library (17) Douglas, John. E., Burgess, Ann W., Burgess, Allen G., and Ressler, Robert K, Crime Classification Manual: A Standard System for Investigating and Classifying Violent Crimes, New York: Lexington Books, 1992. The following chapters from the CCM are e-reserve at the Loyola Monroe Library website: (1) Introduction and Homicide (Chapter 1- assorted pages); (18) Rape and Sexual Assault (Chapter 3 – complete chapter); (19) John Douglas and Corinne Munn. Modus Operandi and the Signature Aspects of Violent Crime (Chapter 5 – complete chapter). (18) Keppel, Robert D. and William J. Birnes. The Psychology of Serial Killer Investigations. Boston: Academic Press, 2003; Chapter 6: Profiling the Serial Killer: The Efficacy of Profiling 3 V. Course Outline: Major topics respond to the material that will be covered in the course including required readings. Week 1: The Crime of Serial Murder: An Introduction and Orientation (June 2 – June 8) 1. Serial Murder: Definitions Hickey, Introduction and Chp. 1; Shon and Milovanovic, Chp. 1; Mind of a Killer - Criminology section - Defining Serial Murder, etc.); Crime Classification Manual, Chapter 1: Homicide; (Film: Jeffrey Dahmer) • 1. Serial Murder: Fact and Fiction • 2. Multicide: mass, serial and spree murderers • 3. Typologies of murder • 4. Serial (Lust) Homicide; Other sexual homicides including paraphilias and other sexual misconduct- Mind of a Killer (Psychology) - Sexual Homicide; See also Mind of a Killer excerpts from Robert Ressler, et al, Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives. • 5. Serial murder typologies • 6. Special topic: School shooter (mass or spree murder). See FBI School Shooter threat assessment www.fbi.gov/publications/leb/2001/september2001/sept01p13.htm 2. Prevalence/ U.S./ other countries Hickey, Chp. 1, Chp. 10, 11 • 1. Global issues in serial murder (See Mind of a Killer (Maps) - interactive map of serial killers around the world which links up with the Encyclopedia of Serial Killers • 2. Assessing global data on serial murder • 3. The Gorby study • 4. Serial murders in Japan • 5. Serial murder in South Africa • 6. Serial murder in Russia Power Points: Serial Murder Intro. Class 1. ppt; Serial Murder Prevalence. Class 1. ppt. Discussion Questions: (Although Jeffrey Dahmer displayed many of the characteristics of classic serial killers and possesses several parahilias including cannibalism and necrophilia, aspects of his childhood suggest he was somewhat different from past serial killers; he was not physically or sexually abused and he came from an affluent family. However, there are other things about his childhood that fit the profile of many serial killers. This being said - Discuss how Jeffrey became a serial killer. Was he a sick, out of control man, as his defense attorney indicated, or a murdering psychopath in complete control of his actions to hunt, capture, torture, and murder victims? 4 Week 2: The Mass Media and Serial Murder (June 9 –June 15) 3. Serial Murder in the Media Shon and Milovanovi, Chp. 8; (Film: Silence of the Lambs) • High profile serial killers and capital punishment, Shon and Milovanovi, Chp. 9 o Newspaper coverage of Ted Bundy o Newspaper coverage of John Wayne Gacy o Newspaper coverage of Richard Ramirez o Newspaper coverage of Aileen Wuornos • Serial murder and the movies Power Points: Serial Murder. Class 2. ppt. Discussion Questions: We discussed disparities between real serial killers and movie/media generated serial killers. Discuss the differences that you see between Dr. Hannibal Lectre and Buffalo Bill in terms of any characteristics that they may or may not have had in relation to what we know about apprehended serial killers.
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