The Serial Killers: A Study in the Psychology of Violence - Couverture souple

Wilson, Colin; Seaman, Donald

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0352326255 ISBN 13 : 9780352326256

Editeur : True Crime, 1990

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

In the 1980s, American law enforcement agencies investigating the rising number of 'motiveless murders' stumbled upon a worrying possibility - what if all these crimes were being committed not by many, but by a relatively small number of people? One killer, multiple victims. The serial killer.

As the number of serial killers worldwide has risen steadily - from the emergence of Jack the Ripper in 1888 to Harold Shipman and Ivan Milat, the backpacker killer of the Australian outback - the need to understand this disturbing phenomenon is becoming more urgent. But to understand why serial murder is on the rise, we must first understand how the serial killer thinks.

Using privileged access to the world's first National Centre for the Analysis of Violent Crime, Colin Wilson and Donald Seaman bring you this incisive study of the psychology of serial killers and the motives behind their crimes.

From childhood traumas to issues of frustration, fear and fantasy, discover what turns an ordinary human being into a compulsive killer.

Quatrième de couverture

An ordinary family house in a quiet West Country town - 25 Cromwell Street, Glouster. Now known throughout the world as the House of Horror: The home of Fred and Rosemary West and the scene of one of the most shocking cases of serial murder England has ever seen. United by acts of unimaginable cruelty, the West's partnership was one of the most deadly in criminal history.

And serial killers are increasing. Triggered by either sexual fantasies or a need to infilct pain and fear, their sadistic addiction to frenzied killing is the most horrifying of all crimes.

But with the fromation of the world's first National Centre for the Analysis of Violent Crime in Virginia, made famous in the hugely popular Silence of the Lambs, the methods of tracking these elusive killers have been revolutionised.

Using their privileged access to the Centre's sophisticated techiniques of psychological profiling Colin Wilson and Donald Seaman have produced the most comprehensive study to date of this terrifying modern phenomenon.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: True Crime
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0352326255
• ISBN 13: 9780352326256
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible