Egger’s research, cited in Chapter 9, found African Americans made up about 25% of his sample of serial killers active between 1980 and 2005, despite making up roughly what percentage of the overall U.S. population?

Gendercide, as defined by Mary Anne Warren, is:

Chapter 9 notes that male serial killers tend to seek out victims who are:

Which of the following does the Mother Jones database, as described in Chapter 8, explicitly exclude?

If a homicide investigator notes that a person did not die an accidental death but that a homicide ended their life, what is the investigator talking about?

Chapter 7 compares familicide cases to non-familicide parent-child killings; how does the percentage of children killed by gunshot differ between the two?

Douglas and Hazelwood’s typology, covered in Chapter 9, describes an “organized” crime scene as suggesting that the killer:

According to this rule, a person is not guilty of a crime if, at the time of the crime, he or she had a mental defect or disability that resulted in the person not knowing what he or she was doing was wrong.

This type of challenge allows the prosecutor or defense attorney to exclude potential jurors without having to give a reason.

An Australian study comparing the murders of gay males and other males found all but the following: