National Repository of Grey Literature 1 records found  Search took 0.01 seconds. 
Serial Murder Investigations
Kayed, Albert ; Krupička, Jiří (advisor) ; Šelleng, Dalibor (referee)
Serial murder attracts a lot of layman and scholarly interest alike. Disproportionate majority of scholarly literature in Czech Republic delves into its psychological aspects and offender profiling. Much smaller portion of literature focuses on other specifics of its investigation. This thesis aims to describe specific problems in the area of investigation and possible solutions to those problems. With regards to the state of Czech and foreign scholarly sources on the topic, literature from English-speaking countries is utilized extensively. When possible and suitable, the output of foreign research is transefered into Czech conditions or a comparison is made. Thesis is continuosly bolstered with case summaries that help to demonstrate topics at hand in practice. The cases chosen are primarily from Czech Republic (or Czechoslovakia, respectively) if available. First chapter focuses on defining serial murder in relation to certain specifics, that are typical for serial murder, even if they don't occur every time. Second chapter focuses on problematics of identifying serial murder with extra focus on situations where physical evidence unequivocally connecting murders into a series isn't available. This chapter also delves into "linkage analysis" as a special application of behavioral analysis. Third...

Interested in being notified about new results for this query?
Subscribe to the RSS feed.