Is The Psychology of Lust Murder the first book to integrate sexual homicide and serial murder?
Yes, the first with which we are familiar. What would you like librarians to know about this book? This is a scholarly attempt to feature the problem of lust murder, emphasizing the psychological dynamics by which this problem presents itself in society. More than that, this is a book that endeavors to explain how different but related literatures, like literature on serial murder and sexual homicide, can be sensibly integrated to explain the problem of lust murder. Thirdly, this book is designed to help readers, particularly students, understand how the integrated model we propose explains and, perhaps, predicts cases like Jeffrey Dahmer. This book looks very systematically at the case history of Dahmer and demonstrates how the model that is featured possesses more explanatory properties than any others found in the social science literature. How did you become associated with your co-author, Catherine Purcell? Catherine is a former doctoral student of mine. She has had a long-standin
