My Life with Murderers: Behind Bars with the World’s Most Violent Men - Couverture rigide

David Wilson

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0751574147 ISBN 13 : 9780751574142

Editeur : Sphere, 2019

Synopsis

A true crime memoir like no other, Professor David Wilson gets inside the mind of a murderer and tries to uncover what drives men to kill

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David Wilson is Emeritus Professor of Criminology and the founding Director of the Centre for Applied Criminology at Birmingham City University. Prior to taking up an academic appointment in 1997, David was a Prison Governor and at 29 became the youngest governing governor in England.

He worked at Grendon, Wormwood Scrubs and at Woodhill in Milton Keynes - where he helped to design and then ran the two units for the 12 most violent prisoners in the country, which brought him into contact with many recent serial killers. David regularly appears in the print and broadcast media as a commentator and presenter. His most recent documentary was the critically acclaimed Interview with a Murderer for Channel 4 in June 2016. In 2017 the documentary won the Broadcast Award and the Royal Television Society Award.

Professor Wilson regularly gives public, school and university lectures. He is currently filming for the BBC and Channel 4.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Murder, in my experience, is a slippery concept and murderers as diverse and different from one another as trees in a forest. Every murder - and the accompanying psychology - is different.

I should know.

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

David Wilson has spent his professional life working with violent men - especially men who have committed murder. Aged twenty-nine he became, at that time, the UK's youngest ever prison Governor in charge of a jail and his career since then has seen him sat across a table with all sorts of killers: sometimes in a tense interview; sometimes sharing a cup of tea (or something a little stronger); sometimes looking them in the eye to tell them that they are a psychopath.

Some of these men became David's friends; others would still love to kill him.

My Life with Murderers tells the story of David's journey from idealistic prison governor to expert criminologist and professor. With experience unlike any other, David's story is a fascinating and compelling study of human nature.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sphere
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0751574147
• ISBN 13: 9780751574142
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible