Crime & Law Books > John Douglas Crime & Law Books

Advantages: Easy to read, very informative
Disadvantages: You need to have an interest in the subject

I work in forensics but have always had an interest in Criminal Psychology. I found this book very easy to read, it is autobiographical but it does not focus too much on the author, there is a good balance between the authors experiences and the cases he has worked on. There are a lot of details that I had not read in other books so it was good to find out a few extra bits of information. I paid around £5 for this book new, and feel my money was ...
...an interest in crime or criminal psychology then this is a good book to read. This book gives a very good insight into how The FBI Behavioural Science Unit works, the type of work they undertake, including lectures, and the types of cases they are called in to work on. You get to see some well known cases from the point of view of the people who helped to catch the purpotrators of the crimes. I enjoyed reading this book so much I have now ordered ... Read review

Advantages: An amazing insight into FBI profiling techniques
Disadvantages: Author sometimes judgemental

This book explores the motive for various crimes ranging from fire starting, through serial killing, mass murdering to random acts of violence. It's a really interesting book for anyone interested in crime or psychology. This book examines various real crime cases, portraying killers such as Lee Harvey Oswald and Timothy McVeigh. The analysis of the crimes shows how the evidence points to why the crime happened (the motive) which in turn points ...
...shows how the criminals are products of their upbringing and environment without using this to excuse them from their crimes. Interestingly many of the criminal have similarities but there are also differences that differentiate say a serial killer from a spree killers or mass murderers. The book shows how the criminals' sociopathic behaviour worsens over time and shows society how to predict potential violent behaviour. At the end of the book there ... Read review

Advantages: easy to read
Disadvantages: none

Although the need for specific texts increased as the course progressed, this book has been of great use to my studies. Even in my fourth year placement this book gave gave me an overview of specific themes, and the bibliography provided me with relevant further reading, which is something my class-mates have struggled in finding thriughout the course. I would highly recommend this book to any social work student, prospective student, or indeed anyone ... Read review

Advantages: Great insights
Disadvantages: Feels incomplete

After staring the excellent book on Paul Briggs I forgot to bring it with me on what I'll describe as my run-away-get-away so I needed aothr similar book, and I'd heard nothing but good things about this 'un. You may wonder why I mentioned Briggy's name well to be honest the books, and the lifestyles of the two are similar, yet opposite at the same time. For example both were beaten as kids, Briggs by his father, Lenny by his step father, both beat ...
...Lenny was ment to be the "'ardest man in britain"...for those of you who were/are Kimbo Slice fans he's basically doing what Lenny made a career out of (Kimbo's new role in MMA aside). Minding and street fighting, claiming to have had over 3000 fights, a number wich I'm sure is maybe trippled of actual "fights" as opposed to scuffles (i.e. kicking a group out of the club your working at doesn't count as 5 fights as far as I'm concerned). Lenny's ... Read review

Advantages: very well written by a man who was there
Disadvantages: upsetting

...position of trust within our society let alone in a school.. A very well written book, one I actually had to put down and not finish... ever You can buy Beyond Evil in most book shops priced at around £7.99, possibly cheaper on amazon or ebay. ... Read review