Serial Killers: Psychiatry, Criminology, Responsibility

Francesca Biagi-Chai's book - a translation from the French of Le Cas Landru - tackles the issue of criminal responsibility in the case of serial killers, and other 'mad' people who are nonetheless deemed to be answerable before the law in most jurisdictions. The author, a Lacanian psychoanalyst and senior psychiatrist in France, with extensive experience working in institutional settings, analyses the logic informing the crimes of famous serial killers.

Author: Francesca Biagi-Chai
Publisher: Routledge Cavendish
Published: 08/20/2012
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.46d
ISBN: 9780415681674

About the Author

Francesca Biagi-Chai is a Psychiatrist in charge of a day care unit at hospital Paul Guiraud (Paris), psychoanalyst member of the Ecole de la Cause Freudienne and World Association of Psychoanalysis, lecturer at the Clinical Section of the Psychoanalysis Department (Paris 8) and the Istituto Freudiano di Roma

Véronique Voruz is Senior lecturer in Law and Criminology at the University of Leicester. She is also guest lecturer at the École de Criminologie, Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, psychoanalyst member of the World Association of Psychoanalysis, and joint editor of The Later Lacan: an Introduction (SUNY:2007)

Suzanne Yang is Visiting Instructor in Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Suzanne is a Forensic psychiatrist with a research focus on violence risk assessment in adults and clinical interventions for violence prevention