Relating Rape And Murder

This book is about relating the concepts of rape and murder in both senses of the term; that is the way rape and murder are linked and related and also how stories of rape and murder are related or told.

A shocking look at how the idea of romantic love can justify and excuse the killing of women by their partners, and lead to sympathy and reduced sentences for the killers. The author explores how stories of domestic homicide are told in the news, by the police, and in the courts, drawing from 72 cases which took place over a twelve month period.

Recounts the events that took place in Casper, Wyoming, in the autumn of 1973, when Amy Burridge and her eighteen-year-old half sister Becky Thomson were raped by two men and thrown off bridge, and explores how the events impacted the residents of the small town, Becky, the only one of the girls to survive the attack, and the many people who helped her recover from her physical and emotional injuries.

All evidence points to Gib Stranton as the murderer, but no hard evidence can be found. Gib has been very careful over the years. However, it has been proven he murdered two people and left them on the ground at the Nelson Ledges State Park. Hes gone into hiding. Thirty Sheriffs departments in Portage, Trumbull, Mahoning, and Geauga Counties are looking for the man. Several FBI men are searching for the man. But Gib is good at disguisessecret stashes of cars and trucks, homes, apartments, and aliases keep him hidden. Gib still manages to slip out and kidnap a woman, rape, and kill her. Police set up stakeouts, but he never goes where theyre waiting for him. Is someone helping him? With FBIs undercover man Detective Gideon Granger thinking Gib will go after his ex-wife, family members agree to guard her day and night. Gideon thinks that is the only way he will capture the man. Can he? In all that is happening, attorney for the family, Karrell Faldare, is working to get funds out of Harold Strangons estate before Gib absconds with it all, for Harolds daughters, twins Jean and Jeri and Meara and Nell. Karrell is also hunting for more elusive funds for Maryne from her ex-husband, Phil Montel. Both men were multibillionaires. Montel used a lot of false names. Can the hired detective in California discover where those funds are stashed?

The harrowing true story of California serial rapist and murderer Rex Allan Krebs who, after serving only half of a 20-year sentence for raping two young woman, brutally raped and murdered two more victims. of photos. Original.

25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road: an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, Blood Meridian traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

This engaging and informative book, by award-winning sociologist and criminologist John Curra, offers a valuable perspective on attitudes and behaviors labeled as deviant. The Relativity of Deviance, Fourth Edition, explores the meanings and constructions of social deviance and social reactions to it, he answers such questions as: What is deviance? What comprises deviant behavior? How are deviants treated? How is deviance socially constructed and socially sustained? Why is the same attitude, behavior, or condition praised in one situation and condemned in another? Through insightful and thought-provoking examples and informed accounts, the author illustrates that deviance cannot be explained or understood in terms of absolutes or essential characteristics nor can it be explained or understood apart from its social setting. This book approaches sex, violence, theft, drugs, suicide, rape, and mental disorders in a way that shows the critical role of sociocultural factors and social reactions in constructions of deviance and crime.

The Rape Investigation Handbook is the first practical and hands-on manual written by sex crime investigators and forensic scientists, providing students with first-hand insight into the work of these professionals. It is the only comprehensive reference available on the investigation of sexual assault and rape. It includes extensive accounts of perpetrators, victims, and other rape case evidence for identification of incidents of rape. The key feature of this text is a thorough overview of the investigative and forensic processes related to sex crime investigation. It takes the reader through investigative and forensic processes in a logical sequence, showing how investigations of rape and sexual assault can and should be conducted from start to finish. This book is designed to be accessible, in terms of language and approach, to the student in the classroom learning about the subject for the first time. It is an excellent training manual for sex crime investigators as well as an excellent textbook for any hands-on university course on the subject of sex crime investigation. This book would also serve as a useful supplement for any investigative course involving violent crime or death investigation. * The only comprehensive reference available on the investigation of sexual assault and rape, a crime 10 times more prevalent than murder * Authored by qualified investigators and forensic professionals with more than twenty years of collective experience working cases, preparing them for court, and offering testimony * Written in a clear, practical style, ideal for professionals in forensic nursing, law enforcement, the legal community, and the investigative community