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Killing with Kindness
In Fritz Allhoff & S. Waller (eds.), Serial Killers ‐ Philosophy for Everyone. Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 115–128 (2010)
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This chapter contains sections titled: Nature, Nurture, and the Female Serial Killer Introduction Female Nurture and Human Nature: Some Philosophical Background Female Serial Killers: A Typology Of Poets and Monsters: Our Common Nature.Author's Profile
eulogy for emotion ‐ lack of empathy and urge to kill killing with kindness ‐ Nature, Nurture, and the Female Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy, in the Guinness Book of World Records ‐ as a long‐forgotten psycho‐killer Aileen Wuornos, the hard‐bitten Florida prostitute ‐ shooting down seven male motorists in a year male serial stalkers, Zodiac and David “Son of Sam” Berkowitz female nurture and human nature ‐ philosophical background sex‐specific psychological adaptations ‐ by evolutionary psychologists female serial killers ‐ a typology male serial killer, a loner stalking the city streets serial killers, male and female ‐ arguably such a kind
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