Cet auteur explore les aspects les plus sombres de la psyché humaine, en s'appuyant sur une compréhension approfondie du comportement criminel. Son expérience antérieure en tant qu'officier de renseignement et ses entretiens approfondis avec plus de trente tueurs en série lui confèrent une perspective unique sur les motivations et les esprits des délinquants. Cette expertise nourrit ses œuvres percutantes et troublantes, qui plongent les lecteurs dans le monde complexe de la criminologie.
Exploring several hundred years of Chinese cinema, this book considers how movies from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora reflect changing views of the Chinese nation. Giving fresh perspectives on the key movements, themes, and filmmakers in Chinese cinema, it describes and analyzes the films of a variety of directors and actors.
Beyond the headlines, once the drama of the courtroom has subsided and the prison gates have been locked behind them for good, Dead Men Talking allows you to get up close and personal with torturers, psychopaths and mass murderers, to read the stories that are rarely heard and get the last word from some of the world's worst criminals.
THE LOST CHILDHOODS, HORRIFIC CRIMES AND DEMENTED MINDS OF THOSE WHO KILL WITHOUT REMORSE.They were born into this world as innocent children. They ended up as merciless killing machines. How to Make a Serial Killer leads you on an insightful, scary, and ultimately disturbing investigation into what made these infamous murderers go bad. Following the biographies and killing sprees of Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Washington D.C. snipers John Muhammad and Lee Molvo and many others, this book asks:•Is there really a “demon seed”?•Do genes play a role?•Was it the killer’s family background?•How did peer group pressure influence their murderous instincts?•Can it all be traced back to a shattering experience early in life? How to Make a Serial Killer follows the lives of these lost souls from early childhood to dark destiny. It provides a fascinating look into the potential for disaster created by a violent and abusive upbringing. No matter what their crime, these killers are still human, and this book explores the twisted workings of their destructive minds.
Between 1989 and 1990, Aileen Wuornos, a hitchhiking prostitute, shot, killed, and robbed seven men in remote Florida locations. Arrested in 1991, Wuornos insisted she had acted in self-defense, but the jury had little sympathy. Condemned to death on six separate counts, she was executed by lethal injection in 2002. An abused runaway who turned to prostitution to survive, Wuornos has become iconic of vengeful women who lash out at the nearest target. She has also become a touchstone for women’s, prostitutes’, and prisoners’ rights advocates. Her story has inspired myriad books and articles, as well as the 2003 movie Monster, for which Charlize Theron won an Academy Award. But until now, Wuornos’s uncensored voice has never been heard. Dear Dawn is Wuornos’s autobiography culled from her ten-year death row correspondence with beloved childhood friend Dawn Botkins. Authorized for publication by Wuornos and edited under the guidance of Botkins, the letters not only offer Wuornos’s riveting reflections on the murders, legal battles, and media coverage, but go further, revealing her fears and obsessions, her rich humor and empathy, and her gradual disintegration as her execution approached. A candid life story told to a trusted friend, Dear Dawn is a compelling narrative, unwaveringly true to its source.
Inside the minds of the world's most depraved serial killers
Aileen Wuornos was executed at the age of 46. She was a child prostitute, fleeing an abusive childhood, straight into a disastrous adulthood of difficult affairs. Her metamorphosis from victim to attacker had brutal consequences: a stream of dead men. This book is her story, in her own words.
The leading writer and criminologist directs his uncompromising gaze on a growing phenomenon - so-called 'rampage killers', whose random multiple killings invariably leave entire communities in shock and mourning.
An investigative criminologist, Christopher Berry-Dee is a man who talks to serial killers. In this book, their pursuit of horror and violence is described in their own words, transcribed from audio and videotape interviews conducted deep inside some of the toughest prisons in the world. Berry-Dee describes the circumstances of his meetings with some of the world's most evil men, and reproduces their very words as they describe their crimes and discuss their remorse—or lack of it. This work offers a penetrating insight into the workings of the criminal mind.
By an expert with over twenty-five years' experience interviewing more than thirty of the most dangerous male and female serial killers of contemporary times, this latest book from the bestselling author explores the darkest corners of these thrill-killers' mindsAs all law-enforcement authorities, including the FBI's elite Behavioral Science Unit, will confirm, the majority of sexual psychopaths gain most of their perverse thrills from the stalking of their unsuspecting victims, often in so many different ways.For them, the actual kill is frequently something less, after which the dead body is treated like so much garbage and simply abandoned or thrown away. Yet as these cases show, a victim has often been unwittingly followed, watched, or even visited before they are attacked, sometimes for weeks or even months.Having exhaustively studied the case histories of more than sixty modern-day sexually motivated serial murderers - some still alive, others subsequently executed - the author zeros in on the Internet porn industry as one of the main motivating drivers in cultivating fantasy stalking, which can lead to , multiple rapes, and homicide graduating to serial murder. Even more chillingly, anyone who is active on social media is a potential stalker's victim.
Sunday Times bestselling author Christopher Berry-Dee seeks to understand the motivation, the amoral urges and the merciless horror behind Dahmer's inhuman behaviour
