If I wanted to be controversial, as a sociologist, I might say that serial murder is “functional” for society. However, a less inflammatory way to say the same thing is that serial murder can be ...

Common sense tells us that people work to earn a living, regardless of their job. This was my stream of thought before I joined St. John College as a Sociology major. By the time I am prepared to ...

For some time now, in this column, I have been arguing that we as a society have culturally constructed the serial killer as an evil monster in our factual as well as fictional accounts of him. I ...