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Demonstrates how theory, practice, profiling and behaviour intertwine to identify the kind of people we should fear (and especially if we are vulnerable to predators).

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Publié par	Waterside Press
Date de parution	05 avril 2017
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781910979228
Langue	English

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The Road to Murder
Why Driving is the Occupation of Choice for Britain’s Serial Killers
Adam G T Lynes
Foreword Professor David Wilson
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The Road to Murder: Why Driving is the Occupation of Choice for Britain’s Serial Killers
Adam G T Lynes
ISBN 978-1-909976-37-5 (Paperback)
ISBN 978-1-910979-22-8 (Epub ebook)
ISBN 978-1-910979-23-5 (Adobe ebook)
Copyright © 2017 This work is the copyright of Adam G T Lynes. All intellectual property and associated rights are hereby asserted and reserved by him in full compliance with UK, European and international law. No part of this book may be copied, reproduced, stored in any retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, or in any language, including in hard copy or via the internet, without the prior written permission of the publishers to whom all such rights have been assigned worldwide.
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Table of Contents
Copyright and publication details ii
About the author vii
The author of the Foreword vii
Acknowledgements viii
Foreword ix
Prologue: The Lorry Driver Hidden in Plain Sight xi
1 Introduction 17
Separating Myth from Reality 18
The Media and the Transient Murderer 20
Defining Serial Murder 23
Selecting a Definition of Serial Murder 24
Approach to the Book and How the Data was Gathered 26
2 How to Get Away With (Serial) Murder: Modern Developments 29
Serial Murder: Theoretical Foundations 29
The “Structural Tradition” 30
Historical Epochs of Serial Murderers and their Victims 31
The Medical-Psychological Tradition 39
Summary 47
3 The Transient Serial Murderer: Current Understanding 51
Serial Murder and Transience 51
Serial Murder and Driving as an Occupational Choice 56
Closing Comments 60
4 Occupational Choice or Necessity? 61
Holland’s RIASEC Model 62
Testing the Validity of Holland’s RIASEC Model 65
The Application of RIASEC in a Criminological Context 67
Holland’s RIASEC Model: Closing Comments 71
5 Serial Murder, Occupational Choice and Offending Behaviour: An Overview 73
Identified British Serial Murderers 74
The Occupations of British Serial Murderers 78
Employment Details of 34 Known British Serial Murderers 79
Offending Period 80
Victim Selection 85
Reported Motivations 92
Closing Comments 97
6 The Lorry Driver 101
Occupational Background 101
Offending Background 103
The Ripper’s Hunting Grounds 104
Time to Hunt 104
Learning on the Job 107
Hidden in Plain Sight 108
Waiting Until Dusk 110
7 The White &Van Man 113
Occupational Background 113
A Pattern Emerges 115
The Whole Country as a Hunting Ground 116
A Mobile Murder Site 119
Taking in the View 121
“Can you fix engines?” 123
An Opportunity Presents Itself 124
8 The Railway Stalkers 127
Two Bodies One Mind 127
Occupational Background 128
From Petty Crime to Murder 129
Hunting London’s Rail Network 130
Creating Temporal Distance 132
Occupation and Offending Collide 134
Disappearing into the Night 135
Night Stalkers 136
9 The “Odd-Job Man” 141
A History of Labour-oriented Professions 141
A Learned Behaviour? 143
Freedom Behind the Wheel 144
Burying the Evidence 148
“You Want a Lift”? 149
10 The Wheel-Clamper 151
Bellfield: Night Club Bouncer Turned Wheel Clamper 151
From Petty Crime to Sexual Violence 153
Stalking London’s Roads 154
Benefits of Being the Boss 156
Occupation and Offending Collide 158
11 The Handyman 161
Peter Tobin: The Mobile Handyman 161
A Checkered Past 162
A History of Sexual Violence 164
Hunting for Opportunities 167
Perks of the Job 169
A Skill for Murder 170
A Convenient Lie 171
On the Job, On the Hunt 172
12 The Forklift Truck Driver 175
The “Suffolk Strangler” 175
Occupational History 177
Setting the Template for Murder 178
Smaller Hunting Grounds 179
Setting the (Crime) Scene 180
Hidden Intentions 182
13 The Transient Serial Murderer: A New Perspective 185
Instrumental Advantages 185
Psychological Factors 195
The Significance of a Transient Dependent Occupation 199
Epilogue: A Look to the Future: Hunting on the “Technological Highway” 203
Is Serial Murder Adapting? 203
The “Craigslist Ripper” 205
“Help Wanted” 208
Final Thoughts 210
References 213
Index 250
About the author
Adam Lynes is a Lecturer in Criminology at Birmingham City University and Deputy Head of the Homicide and Violent Crime (HaVoC) research cluster within the Centre for Applied Criminology. His research predominantly focuses on the significance of occupational choice for serial murderers leading to publications such as Serial Killers and the Phenomenon of Serial Murder (2016) (with David Wilson and Elizabeth Yardley), Waterside Press; “Driving, Pseudo-Reality and the BTK: A Case Study” (2015), Journal of Forensic Psychology and Offender Profiling (with David Wilson) and “Zola and the Serial Killer: Robert Black and La Bête Humaine ” (2012), with others, International Journal of Criminology and Sociology . He has also written about other forms of violence in “A Taxonomy of Male British Family Annihilators, 1980–2012” (2014), Elizabeth Yardley and others, Howard Journal .
The author of the Foreword
Professor David Wilson is one of the UK’s leading criminologists, a National Teaching Fellow and presenter of a number of crime-related TV programmes. Based at Birmingham City University where he is Founding Director of the Centre for Applied Criminology, his books for Waterside Press include Serial Killers: Hunting Britons and Their Victims 1960–2006 (2007) and Mary Ann Cotton: Britain’s First Female Serial Killer (2013).
Acknowledgements
First and foremost I want to thank Professor David Wilson both for writing the Foreword to this work and his help with the manuscript generally.
My special thanks also go to Professor Michael Brookes and Professor Craig Jackson, in particular for the latter’s suggestions for implementing Holland’s RIASEC model ( Chapter Four ) which paved the way for what I believe to be some of the book’s most interesting findings.
Last but not least, I would like to thank my family for all their love, support, and encouragement, especially my parents who taught me the value of critical understanding and supported me in all my pursuits, and my grandmother, Brenda, whose love and support made this undertaking a reality.
Adam Lynes
April 2017
Foreword
From my own background working with serial killers and researching and writing about the phenomenon of serial murder, it soon became evident that much of the academic literature tended to be fixated on the ‘mind of the killer’. So, based on applied research undertaken in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s, there remains an extensive secondary literature on the biological and psychological makeup of serial killers, most of which attempted to uncover why these individuals repeatedly killed.
Whilst this research — often referred to as the ‘medical-psychological’ tradition — has perhaps helped to improve what are often loosely described as ‘profiling techniques’, used when attempting to identify an unknown and still-at-large serial murderer, it was often based on dubious research methods and was largely accepted uncritically. In turn, this has helped to create some ongoing problems and fostered some enduring myths.
For example this particular approach is overly deterministic and tends to overlook other factors that exist outside of an individual serial killer’s psyche. Specific focus on how an individual serial killer’s biological or psychological makeup, for example, differs from other non-criminals has inevitably lead to an ‘otherizing’ process. Whilst understandable — after all, they have committed horrific crimes — we tended to forget that many of the most notorious serial murderers that have existed went to school, had friends, got married and were employed. Indeed, Britain’s most prolific serial killer was a much respected GP. As such, at the most basic level, this suggested that we needed to think of new ways to theorise about serial killers and the phenomenon of serial murder.
In my own attempts to do so, for example, it became apparent that HOW individuals committed acts of serial murder was just as, if not more important than, WHY they killed. And, more generally, by taking a more sociological, or ‘structural approach’ to serial murder, my own research showed that there are particular, marginalised groups in society that provide serial killers with a seemingly limitless pool of victims.
However, whilst these groups may indeed be vulnerable to attack by serial killers, and the contribution of the ‘structural approach’ notwithstanding, the question remained as to whether the social and economic position of the killers themselves might also be a factor that was worthy of greater academic research.
In 2012 I tasked Adam Lynes, my PhD student at the time, to answer this question. In providing an answer into how the socio-economic position of serial killers influenced their offending behaviour, Adam drew attention to how their occupations, or lack thereof, appeared to be a si