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Articles • Books
Serial Killers: The
Insatiable Passion
This review written by
Amy Goldman
David Lester, PhD covers a lot of history and research to prove his points.
The points he makes are based on the psychology of the offender rather than
the details of the crime. If you are of the psychological aspects of violent
criminal offenders, you will be very interested in this book.
In regards to the issues he brings up, he has found many resources to cite.
The history he presents is an extremely thorough one. Dr. Lester does not
focus on the thoughts or crimes of American experts and offenders, he goes
further to other countries to back up what he is saying. His indepth
discussions of the multiple theories are quite detailed.
To be honest, I had a difficult time getting past the first few pages, but
am glad I did. Now this is something I do with most text-type of books--skip
the history and get to the juicy stuff. So keep that in mind before you
think that I am placing blame on the author of the book for dry writing...I
am definitely not saying that.
Below you will find a list of chapters in the book:
Part 1: (chapters 1-9) cover Facts and Theories while Part 2 (chapters
10-20) cover case histories.
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- The Serial Killers of Nazi Germany
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- The Frequency of Serial Murder
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- Characteristics of Serial Murderers
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- Types of Serial Murderers
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- Murders Disguised as Medical Deaths
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- Theories of Serial Murder
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- Psychiatric Disturbance in Serial Murderers
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- The Modern Serial Murderer
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| Index
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Looking at the titles of the chapters, you might reach the conclusion that
the book should have been titled Murder: An Insatiable Passion, as it does
cover many separate areas of murders which should not be classified as
serial murder. But give it a chance. You may find yourself surprised by the
entire content within the book.
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