Lexington Books
Pages: 178
Trim: 6⅜ x 9
978-1-7936-2504-5 • Hardback • July 2021 • $100.00 • (£77.00)
978-1-7936-2505-2 • eBook • July 2021 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Bernard East teaches sociology at Deakin University, Australia.
Chapter 1: Front Stage, Backstage and Sexual Homicide Typologies
Chapter 2: Unsolved Homicide Cases
Chapter 3: Victimology
Chapter 4: The Significance of Souvenirs
Chapter 5: Methods of Dispatch
Chapter 6: Revisiting Ted Bundy’s Signature Themes
Chapter 7: Ted Bundy’s First Murder
Chapter 8: Validation and Significant Influences
Chapter 9: Victim Totals
Chapter 10: Possession and Perversion
Chapter 11: Front Stage Narratives
Chapter 12: Front and Backstage Principles
An interdisciplinary tour de force that uses the otherwise tiresome Bundy saga as a vehicle for a crash course in criminal investigative analysis and offender profiling, as well as a treatise on why our society celebritizes violent psychopaths; at the crossroads of forensic procedure and cultural studies, this is a refreshingly credible book on Bundy that does a deep dive into his grisly crimes, and which will consequently appeal to both scholars and lay readers alike.
— Michael Arntfield, Western University