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Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters
True crime book by Peter Vronsky
Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters is a non-fiction true crime history by Peter Vronsky, a criminal justice historian. It surveys the history of female serial killers and female-perpetrated serial homicide and its culture, psychopathology, and investigation from the Roman Empire to the mid s.[1]
The book describes historical cases of female-perpetrated serial murder from early recorded instances in ancient Rome to medieval and Renaissance Europe and Victorian Britain and its rise and escalation in the United States and the world in the postmodern era. Vronsky's central contention is that female serial killers, while exhibiting different forensic 'signatures' from male counterparts, inevitably kill for the same reasons that male offenders do: for power and control. The major difference, according to Vronsky, between female and male serial killers is that females (unless partnered with a male offender) tend not to sexually assault or physically mutilate their victims.[2][3][4]
Vronsky cites statistics indicating that nearly one in six (16 percent) of serial killers apprehended in the United States since was a female, ei
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'Just as Deadly': Inside the mind of a female serial killer
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Movies, books and podcasts have popularized the stories of serial killers like Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy, but they also have contributed to the longstanding myth that women are incapable of committing such heinous crimes. According to Marissa Harrison, associate professor of psychology at Penn State Harrisburg, that myth is dead wrong.
Harrison has spent years studying the sex differences in serial killers and what motivates a woman to kill, a field that has largely been understudied. Her drive to fill research gaps has culminated in her new book, “Just as Deadly: The Psychology of Female Serial Killers.”
“There’s so much rumor and gossip about serial murderers, but the field lacks information on female serial killers,” said Harrison. “I’m a psychological scientist, a data-wrangler. My book presents a psychological science approach to understanding the minds of female serial killers.”
An expert on evolutionary psychology and behavioral neuroscience, Harrison discusses what makes female serial killers so dangerous in the following Q&A.
How are male and female serial killers different?
Harrison: Let’s start with motives. For females, the most common is financial gain, w