Investigating Religious Terrorism and Ritualistic Crimes / Edition 1

by Dawn Perlmutter

Overview

The legalities of particular religious practices depend on many factors, such as the type of occult or religious activity, the current laws, and the intention of the individual practitioner. Written by the director of the Institute for the Research of Organized and Ritual Violence, Investigating Religious Terrorism and Ritualistic Crimes is the first complete resource to assist in crime scene identification, criminal investigation, and prosecution of religious terrorism and occult crime. It analyzes occult and religious terrorist practices from each group’s theological perspective to help you understand traditional and contemporary occult groups and domestic and international terrorist religions, demarcate legal religious practice from criminal activity, and acquire techniques specific to occult and terrorist religion crime scene investigation.

Dawn Perlmutter appeared in an episode of "On the Case with Paula Zahn" (Investigation Discovery Channel)on Sunday, January 8, 2012. She consulted on a 24-year-old cold case homicide that involved the ritualistic murder of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl in the sacristy of a chapel on Easter Saturday, 1980 in Toledo, Ohio. This case involved unusual symbolic and forensic evidence. The episode will be re-run on January 14.

She was also quoted in a January 12, 2012 NPR article about the U.S. military's desecration of the corpses of Taliban fighters.

Dawn Perlmutter was interviewed by Robert Siegel August 29, 2014 on National Public Radio's All Things Considered in a segment about beheading as a modern warfare tactic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780849310348
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/15/2003
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	453
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Contemporary Religious Violence. TERRORIST RELIGIONS. Millennial Religions & Terrorism. Domestic Terrorist Religions. International Terrorist Religions. OCCULT RELIGIONS. Satanism. Vampirism. Syncretic Religions. INVESTIGATING RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE. Ritualistic Crime Scenes. Intelligence Strategies. Symbolic Analysis: Ritual Homicide Typology. Glossary of Terms. Index.

Editorial Reviews

Don’t touch anything, photograph everything, then pull this book out of the trunk of your car.”
— Charles Wetli, Chief Medical Examiner and Director of Forensic Sciences, Suffolk County, New York; Clinical Professor of Pathology at SUNY, Stony Brook

" … a boon to the literature. … a must-have reference text for crime analysts. .. Dr. Perlmutter has done a superb job in bringing together an encyclopedic volume of hard-to-find information into one book without overwhelming the reader or making the subject so dry that it is impenetrable."

—Dr. Hank Prunckun, writing in Journal of the AIPIO

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