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Date : 20-03-06 15:41
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Publication; issue : 2020 Year 44 Vol 1 iss 1 p
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Defining and Explaining Serial Murders in
the United States
Korean J Leg Med 2020;44:1-6
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Department of Criminal Justice, School of
Letters and Arts, University of North Georgia, Oakwood, GA, USA,
National Forensic Service, Wonju, Korea
E-mail: tae.choo@ung.edu
Serial murder cases in the United States,
due to the fact they are rare in numbers and each case has complex nature of
the crime, have presented challenges to law enforcement officers and
investigators. Academic scholars also have faced obstacles explaining causes of
murder within a specific theoretical framework. A steadily rising number of
serial murders in recent years prompted this paper to examine the nature of
serial murders and their causes in search of answers to questions of ‘who they
are’ and ‘why they commit such crimes’ Reviewing research studies on serial
murder and/or empirical tests of typology of serial murder provided a mixed
results and presented a difficulty of classifying serial murders into mutually
exclusive categories.
Key Words: Serial murder; Theory of murder; Crime
analysis
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