Between 1821 and 1824 Theodore Gericault (1791-1824) attempted to capture on canvas the faces of various 'monomanias', including a portrait of a 'man with the " monomania " of child kidnapping'(1822-3) which was recently exhibited in London as part of the Spectacular Bodies exhibition (Hayward Gallery, 2000). The exhibition traced, inter alia, the development of the aestheticisation of insanity...

Dismantling networks of career criminals is one of the focus points of modern police forces. A key factor within this area of law enforcement is the accumulation of delinquents at the bottom of the criminal hierarchy. A deployed early warning system could benefit the cause by supplying an automated alarm after every apprehension, sounding when this perpetrator is likely to become a career crimi...

Correcting criminals and making them back to the society is the ultimate goal of all criminal systems in the world. No country is willing to keep its citizens away from the society due to a crime they commit. One of the main concerns in criminal policy is resocialization of criminals who, after having been punished, have regretted their act and so-called repented and want to return to society b...

PURPOSE To construct an empirically rigorous typology of multiple homicide offenders (MHOs). METHOD The current study conducted latent class analysis of the official records of 160 MHOs sampled from eight states to evaluate their criminal careers. RESULTS A 3-class solution best fit the data (-2LL=-1123.61, Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC)=2648.15, df=81, L(2)=1179.77). Class 1 (n=64, c...