Criminal Shadows, David Canter
Criminal Shadows, David Canter
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Criminal Shadows
Inside the Mind of the Serial Killer

Author: David Canter

Narrator: Chris MacDonnell

Unabridged: 10 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/02/2021


Synopsis

In 1994, after many years of movies and television portraying the evil side of the human psyche, Dr. David Canter published Criminal Shadows. Two decades on, its revolutionary descriptions of psychological profiling still helps to explain the actions of serial killers and psychopaths.

These techniques can help police precisely identify and locate murderers and rapists, even those who have alluded capture for years.

Dr. David Canter was a British pioneer in the psychological science of criminal profiling. In prose which takes a clear, structured approach to his subject, he reveals how vicious serial killers and rapists unconsciously cast shadows of their identity at the crime scene. The tell-tale patterns, when scientifically understood, can help police capture these brutal offenders. He also explains the types of criminality and victims.

Criminal Shadows leads the listener through Dr. Canter's breakthrough profiling techniques, now adopted by a growing number of police forces throughout the world. Anyone with an interest in psychology or criminal justice should listen to this book, as should fans of television forensic programs.

About David Canter

David Canter is professor emeritus at the University of Liverpool, UK. Internationally known for developing the emerging field of investigative psychology, he has published widely on many aspects of social, environmental, and forensic psychology. His book Criminal Shadows received the Gold Dagger Award for Nonfiction and the Anthony Award for Best True Crime. He also wrote and presented a six-part TV documentary series on his work in geographical offender profiling, which was later published as his book Mapping Murder.


Reviews

Mindhunter'ın ardından uzun süredir okumak istediğim bu kitabı elime aldım. Beklediğimi bulamadım. Öncelikle Sola Unitas'ı ayrı olması gereken tüm -de'leri bitişik yazdıkları, bitişik olması gereken neredeyse tüm -de'leri ayırdıkları için tebrik ediyorum. Eşine rastlanması güç bir başarı. Sanırım edi......more

Goodreads review by Jamie

Criminal Shadows 3.5 stars This is interesting if the subject appeals to you. Dr Canter is an English professor of psychology and a pioneering figure in implementing the successful use of offender profiling in the United Kingdom. Because he's a professor with some unique experiences in the field, the b......more

Goodreads review by Ruth

One complaint - his placing of Jeffrey Dahmer in Chicago... Milwaukee, I think even a cursory look at Dahmer will find. It's a part of his Serial killer Moniker. I assume the author, when saying Chicago, was thinking Gacy, or it was a typing error in editing or the transcript. Now that's out of the w......more

Goodreads review by Gra

Hard going. Long sentences with over descriptive text meant it was hard keeping in mind what the relevant points were. These sentences were common and I noted one sentence at 8 lines adding to the confusion. The book's nearly 400 pages long though could have been a third of that without the repetiti......more