Hunting Humans: The Rise of the Modern Multiple Murderer

Non-Fiction True Crime Criminology Anthropology Academic Textbook Sociology Serial Killer Studies

First-edition hardcover copies of Elliott Leyton’s landmark 1992 study Hunting Humans: The Rise of the Modern Multiple Murderer have become scarce collector’s items, especially in the clean, jacket-protected condition offered here. Published by BCA and clocking in at 414 tightly-bound pages, this vintage textbook is free of inscriptions, smoke odor, or shelf-wear, making it the copy serious true-crime readers and criminology students actively search for online.

Leyton, one of the world’s most respected anthropologists of violence, moves beyond sensational headlines to map the social forces that created the late-twentieth-century surge in serial homicide. Drawing on court transcripts, psychiatric files and first-hand prison interviews, he constructs a typology of multiple murderers—spree, serial, and mass—and shows how shifts in class structure, media mythology, and law-enforcement practice shaped the modern “celebrity” killer. The result reads like a fast-paced investigative narrative while delivering the academic rigor assigned in university criminal-justice and sociology courses.

For collectors, a pristine first printing is the cornerstone of any true-crime shelf; for students and educators, this edition preserves Leyton’s original tables, maps, and unaltered 1992 data set, invaluable for comparing with today’s crime analytics. Keywords such as “Elliott Leyton first edition,” “Hunting Humans 1992 hardcover,” and “modern multiple murderer criminology textbook” consistently drive high search volume, ensuring demand remains strong. Secure this smoke-free, dust-jacketed copy now before it disappears into private collections.

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