We may be forgiven therefore for thinking that the term serial killer is a modern one. The words might be, but the concept is not. But to the psychologist there is curiosity and a need to know why serial killers are, well, what they are.

To law enforcement officers there is a righteous anger and drive to investigate and apprehend. To most, there is an indefinable fear at the idea that a random stranger runs amok amongst us.

Gavin will deliver a talk entitled History and the Serial Killer: Deep in the Psyche : She finds people often regret looking over her shoulder to see what she is reading.ĭr. She teaches, researches, and writes on topics such as deviant sexual expression, female violence, homicide, and sexualised and gendered homicide. Her publications include Criminological and Forensic Psychology, and Women and the Abuse of Power. Principal Lecturer and Subject Lead in Criminal Psychology. The paper will raise the question of the validity and thus future of this sub-genre unless this issue is more broadly addressed. Very few True Crime narratives foreground the victims, an exception being the documentary based on Michelle Mac Namara's I'll be Gone in the Dark which demonstrated an extraordinary and moving attempt by victims to demonstrate the inadequacy of the Golden State Killer, in part by bearing witness against him in court. It's the killers whose names are seared into our brains and remembered. Nonetheless, Netflix's top rating show is currently Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, bringing in the viewers despite the show's avowed intention to 'largely show' events from the points of view of his victims. Three years ago, New Zealand premier Jacinda Arden, vowed to never speak the name of the man who murdered fifty people at a Christchurch mosque. This is evident not only in the case of serial killers bit spree killers. This paper will build on my existing work on True Crime narratives and the ways in which the audience/readership become obsessed with- and often valorize, the serial killer. Peters will deliver a talk entitled Never Speak His Name: In 2019 she established the Edinburgh University Press Journal Crime Fiction Studies of which she is editor. Director of the International Crime Fiction Association (from 2017) and organiser of the Captivating Criminality conferences (from 2014).

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