SOC 2760 Final: Homicide Exam Review Guide
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Textbook chapter 2: defining multiple murder page 21-38: A typology of multiple murder: ronald holmes and james burger assembled a motivational classification that distinguishes. Inspired by sadistic fantasies, a man tortures and kills a series of strangers to satisfy his need for control and dominance. Grossly mistreated as a child, a man avenges his past by slaying women who remind him of his mother. A team of killers turn murder into a ritual for proving their dedication and commitment to one another. A woman poisons to death a series of husbands in order to collect on their life insurance policies. A profoundly paranoid man commits a series of bombings to warn the world of impending doom. A pseudocommando, dressed in battle fatigues and armed with an assault rifle, turns a shopping mall into a war zone . After being fired from a job, a gunman returns to the work site and opens fire on his former boss and coworkers.