Elliott Leyton (1939–2022)
Author of Hunting Humans: The Rise of the Modern Multiple Murderer
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Elliott Leyton is a professor of anthropology at Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland.
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- Birthdate
- 1939
- Date of death
- 2022-02-14
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Canada
- Birthplace
- Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Place of death
- St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
- Places of residence
- Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Warsaw, Poland
Israel - Education
- University of British Columbia (BA)
University of British Columbia (MA)
University of Toronto (PhD|Anthropology) - Occupations
- social anthropologist
university professor emeritus - Organizations
- Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association
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- Beverley Slopen Literary Agency
- Short biography
- Dr. Elliott Leyton is the past President of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association; the author/editor of eleven books and many essays in the scholarly journals; Research Fellow at The Queen's University of Belfast in Ireland, sometime lecturer on homicide at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police College in Ottawa, and the National Police College in Poland, as well as visitor at the FBI Academy; and has held permanent and visiting faculty appointments at The Queen's University of Belfast in N. Ireland, the University of Toronto, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Warsaw in Poland, and the Memorial University of Newfoundland where he is currently Professor Emeritus of anthropology.
He has devoted most of his career to the anthropological study of 'social problems' in modern complex societies. During this time, he has completed fieldwork among business people in Vancouver; with Protestant and Catholic communities in Northern Ireland; among dying miners and widows in Newfoundland; with juvenile delinquents in an Atlantic 'reform school'; with Scotland Yard and South Yorkshire police in Britain; and among Medecins sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders emergency medical personnel in Rwanda and Kenya. In 2004, the National Film Board film about his life's work, The Man Who Studies Murder, was premiered at the Montreal Film Festival, and then aired on national CBC Television's THE NATURE OF THINGS as a two-part "mini-series".
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I must be the unusual resident of Canada; I'm uninterested in most of what happens in the land that lies mostly just to the south of this one. When I saw that Leyton is Canadian, working in a Canadian university, I jumped to the conclusion that his discussion would range farther than the confines of the United States. Beyond that, I did not expect to read about 300 pages of descriptions of crimes larded with his moral condemnations of the perpetrators and rehashed pop psych followed by a meagre 100 pages or so of lite analysis.
Dreary reading.… (more)