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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Serial Killer"”.
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Serial Killer: Gustave Flaubert's Pro-Woman, Woman-Killing <i>Madame Bovary</i>
<p>This thesis will argue that Gustave Flaubert kills the women in <em>Madame Bovary</em>, all of whom are married and/ or mothers in the novel, in order to overtly represent the impossible conditions of womanhood and domestic life in nineteenth century France. Further, I will expose the ways in …
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Serial Killing Myths Versus Reality: A Content Analysis Of Serial Killer Flicks Made Between 1980 and 2001
Public perceptions about serial homicide are more mythical than fact. Myths about serial homicide are perpetuated through several sources, especially the entertainment media which is a dominant and influential mythmaker. The number of films depicting serial killers and serial killing themes has …
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Carrying the burden: a study on the reported experiences and the lifelong impact of growing up with a serial killer parent
… explores the experiences of the offspring of serial killers and how they were impacted by their parent's crimes. The study employed a thematic analysis of six subjects who wrote biographies detailing their experiences with a serial killer parent or guardian. The children’s accounts revealed …
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"A Self-Observing World of Observers": The American Serial Killer in Cormac McCarthy's Child of God and Contemporary True Crime Narratives
… true and fictionalized crime narratives is the serial killer; a criminal overwhelmingly male, overwhelmingly white, and understood by cultural scholars like Mark Seltzer and David Schmid as distinctly American. This thesis offers a concerted look at one such figure: Lester Ballard, the …
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Hollowend
… isn't actually a private investigator. He's a serial killer—the Widowmaker, according to the local press. He's been terrorizing Hollowend for the past three years, only getting away with it because of his influence magic, which allows him to convince anyone of anything. It even allows him to …
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Differences in Characteristics of Criminal Behavior Between Solo and Team Serial Killers
<p>Criminal Profiling and classification of serial killers has been an expanding area of research for decades. Recent research has called into question the accuracy and utility of these systems, and calls for further research and development. This study aims to use the Serial Killer Database (SKDB) …
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Apocalypse now now
… If by average you mean a possible serial killer, the kingpin of a porn-peddling schoolyard syndicate and the only thing standing in the way of full-scale gang warfare between the two powerful gangs which control Westridge High School. Which may well be what counts for average these …
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How to Create Monsters? A preliminary examination approach to the role of the social environment in relation to the origin of South African serial killers
The phenomenon of serial killers is a fascinating topic for readers, as well as for researchers. This dissertation is going to expand the steadily growing stock of literature regarding the origin of serial killers, but with a focus on the social environment. As the social environment differs from …
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The social construction of serial killers: Paul Bernardo as a case study (Ontario).
… media and five respondents socially constructed serial killer Paul Bernardo. Scholarly works from British cultural studies and select works from the social constructionist school were used in the analysis of the construction of Paul Bernardo. Specifically, Hall's (1980b) model of reading …
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A Deconstruction of Dexter: An Analysis of Noble Cause Corruption Within a Crime Drama
… true self. Outside of the crime lab Dexter is a serial killer self admitted monster who kills serial killers he is able to track down through his job. Although Dexter does kill he is not an "average" serial killer, killing only the people he fit a "moral code" taught to him by his father. </p> …
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The Murderess: A True Crime Chamber Opera
… inspired by the nineteenth-century American serial killer Jane Toppan, who plans to poison her elderly patient with strychnine. In a twist ending, Jane’s elderly patient is given agency by revealing that she hired Jane to end her life. Thus, the opera dives into questions of morality and …
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Tense Familiarity: Psycho and the Origins, Effects, and Pedagogy of the Trans-Coded Monster
… which arose from the spectacle of real-life serial killer Ed Gein’s murderous and taxidermic hobbies and the “gay-panic” spun from the headlines of the Leopold and Loeb slaying, the monster serves as a functionary of social control on two levels. First, the societal level, in which the …
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High-Throughput Single-Cell Functional and Molecular Profiling of Immune Cells in Cancer Immunotherapy
… speed of these cells by TIMING indicated that serial killer T cells may be identified based on their high out-of-contact basal motility. Transcriptional profiling of these single-cells confirmed that the motile cells expressed increased amounts of perforin and displayed an activated phenotype. …
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Psychopathy and Gender of Serial Killers: A Comparison Using the PCL-R.
<p>Psychopathy and serial murder are 2 of society's most devastating and least understood tribulations. Even less is comprehended with regards to the differences in the way these ills are expressed between the genders. In this study, psychopathic personality traits are considered in a sample …