May 17, 2018 From Elizabeth Bathory to Aileen Wuornos, female serial killers have existed as long as their male counterparts. Whether it's killing for money or love or just the thrill of the crime, these women will truly terrify you.
| Author | Peter Vronsky |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | True crime, history |
| Publisher | |
| 2007 | |
Published in English | 2007 |
| Pages | 496 |
| ISBN | 0425213900 |
| OCLC | 123390943 |
Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters is a non-fiction true crime history by Peter Vronsky, a criminal justice historian. It surveys the history of female serial killers and female-perpetrated serial homicide and its culture, psychopathology, and investigation from the Roman Empire to the mid 2000s.[1]
The book describes historical cases of female-perpetrated serial murder from early recorded instances in ancient Rome to medieval and Renaissance Europe and Victorian Britain and its rise and escalation in the United States and the world in the postmodern era. Vronsky's central contention is that female serial killers, while exhibiting different forensic 'signatures' from male counterparts, inevitably kill for the same reasons that male offenders do: for power and control. The major difference, according to Vronsky, between female and male serial killers is that females (unless partnered with a male offender) tend not to sexually assault or physically mutilate their victims.[2][3][4]
Vronsky cites statistics indicating that nearly one in six (16 percent) of serial killers apprehended in the United States since 1820 was a female, either acting alone or as a partner of a male or female offender.[5] Vronsky argues that, contrary to popular belief, female serial killers prefer to murder their male intimates or family members, while recent data indicate that currently female serial killers marginally prefer strangers as victims[6] and that historically in the United States, 53 percent of female serial killers had murdered at least one adult female, and 32 percent at least one female child.[7]
References[edit]
- ^Female Serial Killers by Peter Vronsky | PenguinRandomHouse.com
- ^Frank S. Perri & Terrance G. Lichtenwald, 'The Last Frontier: Myths & the Female Psychopathic Killer', Forensic Examiner, Summer 2010. http://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/support-files/female-psychopathic-killers.pdf
- ^Kimmon Ianneta and Reed Hayes, 'Women Who Kill', Perfect Advice Handwriting Evaluation, http://perfect-advice.com/?page_id=1036
- ^Glenn D. Wilson, Profiling a Killer, Gresham College, London - Museum of London Lecture, 20 March 2012 - http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/profiling-a-killer; David Wilson, Elizabeth Yardley, (2013) 'The psychopathy of a Victorian serial killer: integrating micro and macro levels of analysis', Journal of Criminal Psychology, Vol. 3 Issue: 1, pp.19-30; Rosa Aiello, 'Guilty of a double standard', McGill University Daily, November 12, 2009. http://www.mcgilldaily.com/2009/11/guilty_of_a_double_standard/
- ^Peter Vronsky, Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters, New York: Penguin Group Berkley Books, 2007. p. 3
- ^Vronsky, p. 29
- ^Peter Vronsky, p. 15.
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