Asasino en serie: Diferenzas entre revisións

*{{Cita web |title=Serial killer| publisher=''[[TheFreeDictionary.com]]''| accessdate=June 15, de xuño de 2016|url=http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/serial+killer|quote=A person who murders 3+ people over a period of > 30 days, with an inactive period between each murder, and whose motivation for killing is largely based on psychological gratification.}}

*{{Cita libro| authors = Ronald M. Holmes, Stephen T. Holmes|title = Contemporary Perspectives on Serial Murder | publisher = [[SAGE Publications]] | year = 1998 | page = 1 | accessdate = June 15, de xuño de 2016 |isbn = 0761914218| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=0yfoJz6jHwkC&pg=PA1|quote=Serial murder is the killing of three or more people over a period of more than 30 days, with a significant cooling-off period between the murders [...] The baseline number of three victims appears to be most common among those who are the academic authorities in the field. The time frame also appears to be an agreed-upon component of the definition.}}

*{{Cita libro| author = Wayne Petherick|title =Serial Crime: Theoretical and Practical Issues in Behavioral Profiling| publisher = [[Academic Press]] | year = 2005 | page = 190| accessdate = June 15, de xuño de 2016 |isbn = 0080468543| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=U3-zunZ5eF4C&pg=PA190|quote=Three killings seem to be required in the most popular operational definition of serial killing since they are enough to provide a pattern within the killings without being overly restrictive.}}

*{{Cita libro| author = R. Barri Flowers|title = The Dynamics of Murder: Kill or Be Killed | publisher = [[CRC Press]] | year = 2012 | page = 195| accessdate = June 15, de xuño de 2016 |isbn = 1439879745| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=MQnSBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA195 |quote=In general, most experts on serial murder require that a minimum of three murders be committed at different times and usually different places for a person to qualify as a serial killer.}}

*{{Cita libro| author = Harold Schechter|title = The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers | publisher = [[Simon and Schuster]] | year = 2012 | page = 73| accessdate = June 15, de xuño de 2016|isbn = 1439138850| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=zM7ROzJPK2MC&pg=PA73 |quote= Most experts seem to agree, however, that to qualify as a serial killer, an individual has to slay a minimum of three unrelated victims.}}</ref> frecuentemente ó servizo dunha gratificación psicolóxica anormal e producíndose os asasinatos durante máis dun mes cun descanso importante (un "período de arrefriamento") entre eles.<ref name="Most common"/> Diferentes autoridades aplican diferentes criterios na definición dos asasinos en serie;<ref name="Hough">{{cita libro| authors = Richard M. Hough, Kimberly D. McCorkle|título = American Homicide | editorial = [[SAGE Publications]] | ano = 2016 | páxina = 73| dataacceso = 15 de xuño de 2016 |isbn = 1439138850| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=zM7ROzJPK2MC&pg=PA73 |cita= Serial killing has been defined by different researchers or groups as either two or more, three or more, or even four or more people killed over at least one month with a cooing off period between each of the murders.}}</ref> mentres que moitos estabelecen un limiar de tres asasinatos,<ref name="Most common"/> outros esténdeno a catro e outros redúceno a dous.<ref name="Hough"/> O [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] (FBI), por exemplo, define un asasinato en serie como "unha serie de dous ou máis asasinatos, cometidos en eventos separados, normalmente pero non sempre, por un delincuente actuando só".{{sfn|Burkhalter Chmelir|2003|p=1}}{{sfn|Morton|2005|p=4, 9}}