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Barcode30293102320467
StatusIn Processing
LocationClark County
Call No363.258 Corb
TitleThe monsters we make : murder, obsession, and the rise of criminal profiling / Rachel Corbett.
AuthorCorbett, Rachel, 1984- author.
CollectionNF
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Clark County30293102320467363.258 Corb11/16/2025 In Processing 

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9780393867695 (hardcover)
International Standard Book Number 0393867692 (hardcover)
Personal Name Corbett, Rachel, 1984- author.
Title Statement The monsters we make : murder, obsession, and the rise of criminal profiling / Rachel Corbett.
Edition Statement First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, 2025.
Physical Description 235 pages ; 22 cm.
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographic references (213-220) and index.
Formatted Contents Note Introduction -- The scarlet thread of murder -- It must do violence -- The hare and the hunter -- Mind games -- The seeds of criminal activity -- Epilogue
Summary, Etc. "A taut, riveting work of true crime that tells the strange story of criminal profiling from Victorian times to our own. Criminal profiling -- the delicate art of collecting and deciphering the psychological "fingerprints" of the monsters among us -- holds an almost mythological status in pop culture. But what exactly is it, does it work, and why is the American public so entranced by it? What do we gain, and endanger, from studying why people commit murder? In The Monsters We Make, author Rachel Corbett explores how criminal profiling became one of society's most seductive and quixotic undertakings through five significant moments in its history. Corbett follows Arthur Conan Doyle through the London alleyways where Jack the Ripper butchered his victims, depicts the tailgate outside of Ted Bundy's execution, and visits the remote Montana cabin where Ted Kaczynski assembled his antiestablishment bombs. Along the way emerge the people who studied and unraveled these cases. We meet self-taught psychologist Henry Murray, who profiled Adolf Hitler at the request of the U.S. government and later profiled his own students -- including the future Unabomber -- by subjecting them to cruel humiliation experiments. We also meet the prominent Yale psychiatrist Dorothy Lewis, who ended up testifying that Bundy was too sick to stand trial. Finally, Corbett takes the story into our own time, explaining the rise of modern "predictive policing" policies through a study of one Florida family that the analytics targeted -- to devastating effects. With narrative intrigue and deft research, Corbett delves deep into the mythology and reality of criminal profilers, revealing how thin the line can be separating those who do harm and those who claim to stop it." -- Dust jacket.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Criminal behavior, Prediction of.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Murderers Psychology.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Criminal investigation Psychological aspects.
Index Term-Genre/Form True crime stories.

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