Men of Blood Murder in Everyday Life

by Leyton, Elliott

• ISBN13: 9780771053122
• ISBN10: 0771053126
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart

Summary

A milkman shares a take-out supper with his cousin and then fatally stabs him....A man breaks into a shelter for abused women and snuffs out the life of his wife who has taken refuge there....A youth rapes and kills a woman on the landing of her apartment building....The boyfriend of a single mother batters her eighteen-month-old daughter to death. . . . InMen of Blood,Elliott Leyton, described by William Langley in theLondon Sunday Telegraphas "probably the world's most widely consulted expert on serial killing and a godhead of modern criminal psychology," reviews a decade's worth of real murders and analyses their common features. Sometimes surprising, often shocking, always compelling, the result is an important addition to the literature of murder. From the Hardcover edition.

Author Biography

<b>Elliott Leyton</b> is a professor of anthropology at Memorial University in Newfoundland. He holds research and faculty appointments in Ireland and England, has delivered lectures throughout Europe, the United States, and Canada, and is a past president of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association. Because of his recognized expertise in the psychology of the multiple killer he has established close links with police forces around the world. His books include <i>Dying Hard</i>, <i>The Myth of Delinquency</i>, <i>Hunting Humans</i>, <i>Men of Blood</i> and <i>Touched by Fire </i>(with photographer Greg Locke).<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Beast Boys	1	(19)
A Civilization Gone Mad?	20	(25)
Fears and Alarums	45	(27)
Culture Heroes	72	(27)
The Evolution of a Sensibility	99	(20)
Lovers, Spouses and Kin	119	(24)
Parents and Children	143	(24)
Theft or Gain	167	(22)
Strangers	189	(17)
``The Civilizing Process''	206	(31)
Appendix	237