The Monsters We Make: Murder, Obsession, and the Rise of Criminal Profiling
$27.02 online at Bookshop.org
Criminal profiling, the art of reading psychological fingerprints from the monsters among us, holds near-mythic status in pop culture. But what is it, does it work, and what do we risk by studying why people kill? Rachel Corbett traces the rise of the field through key moments: Arthur Conan Doyle walking Ripper alleyways; Henry Murray profiling Hitler for the U.S. government, then subjecting his own students, including future Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, to cruel experiments; Yale psychiatrist Dorothy Lewis testifying on Ted Bundy; the Montana cabin where Kaczynski built bombs; and modern predictive policing that targets a Florida family with devastating results. A taut true-crime history of how thin the line can be between those who harm and those who claim to stop it.
Genres: True Crime
ISBN-13: 9780393867695
Prefer to browse in person? Visit us in downtown Easley or call the store for help ordering a title.
Support the store when you buy from our Bookshop.org affiliate. Bookshop.org handles checkout, shipping, and customer service.