Elliott Leyton
Elliott Leyton is a professor of anthropology at Memorial University in Newfoundland. He holds research and faculty appointments in Ireland and England, has delivered lectures throughout Europe, the United States, and Canada, and is a past president of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association. Because of his recognized expertise in the psychology of the multiple killer he has established close links with police forces around the world. His books include Dying Hard, The Myth of Delinquency, Hunting Humans, Men of Blood and Touched by Fire (with photographer Greg Locke).
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Trade Paperback | 416 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Social Science - Criminology; True Crime; Social Science - Sociology
978-0-7710-5025-1 (0-7710-5025-9)
August 9, 2005 | $22.99
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A completely revised and expanded edition of a classic study from the authority on serial killers.
Hunting Humans is Elliott Leyton’s classic study of six of the world’s most notorious serial killers. It established him as a leading authority on one of crime’s most disturbing phenomena and as an expert consultant for...
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | McClelland & Stewart | True Crime - Murder; Social Science - Criminology
978-0-7710-5312-2 (0-7710-5312-6)
October 1, 2002 | $22.99
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A milkman shares a take-out supper with his cousin and then fatally stabs him.…A man breaks into a shelter for abused women and snuffs out the life of his wife who has taken refuge there.…A youth rapes and kills a woman on the landing of her apartment building.…The boyfriend of a...
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Social Science - Criminology; True Crime - Murder
978-0-7710-5309-2 (0-7710-5309-6)
April 1, 1995 | $22.99
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In this classic study, Elliott Leyton challenges the conventional idea of serial murderers as deranged madmen. He explores the twisted – but comprehensible – motives of a half-dozen notorious killers: Edmund Emil Kemper, Theodore Robert Bundy, Albert DeSalvo (“The Boston Strangler”), David Richard Berkowitz (“Son of Sam”), Mark James Robert Essex...
