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| Title: | Serial Killers & Sadistic Murderers
: Up Close & Personal |
| Author: | Jack Levin. Foreword by Robert K Ressler |
| ISBN: | 1591025761 : 9781591025764 |
| Illustrations: | b/w photos |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 233 |
| Weight: | .522 Kg. |
| Published: | Prometheus Books - February 2008 |
| List Price: | 17.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | True crime: Crime & criminology |
This book taps the author's wealth of knowledge regarding the criminal mind and offers lessons for law enforcement including how killers think, as well as the conditions under which murders typically occur. It is hoped that these lessons will lead to more effective ways to thwart such crimes in the future. This chilling glimpse into the minds of some of the worst criminals makes a valuable contribution to criminology and is a must-read for both true-crime buffs and law enforcement professionals.
Introduction; Conversing with the Devil; Gaining a Sadistic Thrill; Silencing the Lambs; Looking More Innocent than an Innocent Man; Killing without a Care; Hating Enough to Kill; Hiding Domestic Violence?; Fighting the Culture of Silence; Killing for Company; Planning and Plotting to Kill; Motivating Mindless Murder; Teaming Up to Kill; Threatening to Kill; Victimising the Vulnerable; Stigmatising the Community; Preventing the Murderous Impulse; Responding to the; Murderous Impulse; Index.
