Citation

Beard V, Hunter S, Kern L, Kiley B. Deviant Behav. 2014; 35(12): 959-972.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/01639625.2014.901053

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The study of death within the field of sociology is expansive yet despite this research there is a lack of inquiry within the area of crime and deviance on the topic of thanatological crime. One researcher that has conducted an analysis of this topic is Bryant (2003). In his exposé on thanatological crime, Bryant (2003) developed a conceptual paradigm of death-related crime that consisted of four motivational categories and two patterns of victimization. Using data from the Radford/FGCU Serial Killer Database (Aamodt 2013), this article extends and applies the conceptual paradigm of thanatological crime to serial homicide.