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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.15230922
EAN num: 9781591025764
ISBN number: 1591025761
Label: Prometheus Books
Manufacturer: Prometheus Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 233
Printing Date: February 28, 2008
Publishing house: Prometheus Books
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Foreword by Robert K. Ressler, FBI (ret.), Founder and Former Director of the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program After twenty-five years of investigating, analyzing, and interviewing serial killers, their family members, neighbors, and even surviving victims, Jack Levin has become one of the world's most respected experts on the motivations and modus operandi of dangerous criminals. In this gripping book, he taps his wealth of experience with the criminal mind to offer lessons for law enforcement and the general public about how serial killers think, as well as the conditions under which hideous murders typically occur. These lessons, he hopes, will lead to more effective ways to thwart such crimes in the future.
Levin's face-to-face meetings and correspondence with such notorious murderers as the Hillside strangler (Kenneth Bianchi) and Orville Lynn Majors (the male nurse who was convicted of killing numerous patients in his charge) reveal that these types of killers are not motivated by money, revenge, or rage. In fact, the only motivation seems to be a sadistic craving for power and a need to feel in control. Levin also, for the very first time, lets down his guard and reveals what it feels like to be seated so close to such cold-blooded killers. Many killers, as Levin points out, are meticulous planners. Levin has found that even in situations that appear spontaneous, for instance a workplace shooting by a disgruntled employee, the deed is carefully thought out and prepared for in advance.
Another factor that consistently emerges in conversations with killers who have committed the most heinous of acts is the total absence of remorse or any notion of moral responsibility. Murder appears to be easy for these criminals and they kill with a feeling of complete impunity. Levin also notes the skillfully deceptive facades that such murderers are able to affect. They are extremely adept liars (he admits to having been fooled!), who enjoy playing mind games, even though outwardly they seem above suspicion. This is one reason they are so dangerous and difficult for investigators to track down and prosecute.
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.
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. . . But a waste of time for the rest of us. 100% unenlightening. Sloppy and suspect. One of those books people write to make a few bucks.
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It's got a foreword by Robert K. Ressler and six endorsements from academics on the back, but Serial Killers and Sadistic Murderers is a sloppily researched, casually written, book.
What really did it was pages 102-104, when Levin refers to Dennis Nilsen as "Henry Nilson". He talks about having lunch with Brian Masters, author of Killing for Company, but I guess Nilsen's name didn't come up.
You can't write a book without making mistakes, but for heaven's sake, the author has a PhD, he's done a half-dozen books on the subject, and is regularly trotted out as an expert on serial murder.
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A very readable and good book. Short and to the point. Read it quickly and passed it to a friend to read and enjoy.
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After twenty-five years of probing serial murders, interviewing killers and their families, neighbors, and surviving victims, author Jack Levin has become an expert on the topic - and here translates his expertise to a series of lessons identifying the mind of these killers and how their murders occur. Any college-level collection strong in enforcement books will find this an invaluable tool to understanding the psychology and activities of these killers.
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Levin's new book is a kind of summering his knowledge on serial killers for many years. The author explain the phenomena and its multiple faces to the academic reader as well as for the common readers as well
This book is not of a theoretical but a descriptive of the many kinds and reasons of serial killers. The personal touch from Levin knowledge and acquaintanceship with so many cases of serial killers give the reader a global picture of the phenomena, and make the reader feel as he himself knew this killers.
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