Philip Jenkins is a professor of history at Baylor University and the author of many books, including Using Murder: The Social Construction of Serial Homicide and Decade of Nightmares: The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties America.
What Caused the Serial Killing Spike of the 1970s and '80s?
A new book draws a rich, informative, but not entirely convincing account of a crime wave.
