[syndicate] The Consent of Murder

[Ed Hoffman]

>The Consent of Murder (A Male pastime).
>
>We serial killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are everywhere. 
>And there will be more of your children dead tomorrow - Ted Bundy.
>

Kelleher & Kelleher (1998) argue that female serial killers are more 
successful, careful, precise, methodical, and quiet in committing their 
crimes.
http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/401/401lect11.htm

The female serial killer often remains unobserved, hidden in the background 
and obscured by her male counterpart.
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~ce4b/jack.html


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140243887/ref=pd_bxgy_text_1/102-6339377-7125732?v=glance&s=books

While national crime rates have recently fallen, crimes committed by women 
have risen 200 percent, yet we continue to transform female violence into 
victimhood by citing PMS, battered wife syndrome, and postpartum depression 
as sources of women's actions.
When She Was Bad convincingly overturns these perceptions by telling the 
stories of such women as Karla Faye Tucker, who was recently executed for 
having killed two people with a pickax; Dorothea Puente, who murdered 
several elderly tenants in her boarding house; and Aileen Wuornos, a Florida 
woman who shot seven men. Patricia Pearson marshals a vast amount of 
research and statistical support from criminologists, anthropologists, 
psychiatrists, and sociologists, and includes many revealing interviews with 
dozens of men and women in the criminal justice system who have firsthand 
experience with violent women. When She Was Bad is a fearless and superbly 
written call to reframe our ideas about female violence and, by extension, 
female power.



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