THE MURDERER AND HIS VICTIM

Hardback. With chapters by Stuart Boyd and James A. Galvin. 'Murder compels attention, but surprisingly few books have been written on the circumstances of criminal homicide and the mind of the murderer. Even books on criminology pay scant attention to the subject and it would appear that the fiction writer reigns supreme in this otherwise neglected field.....' The author has produced a comprehensive survey, avoiding technical terms as far as possible, drawing on the psychiatric examination of over 100 murderers, some of which were for the District Courts of Colorado. Contents include : The Problem of Murder; The Murderer; The Victims of Homicide; The Psychology of Murder; The Urge to Confess; Psychiatric Examination of the Murderer; Mass Murderers (Gilles De Rais, Wm Burke, Cream, Landru, Haarmann, Kurten, Petiot, Starkweather, Plane bombers, Verzo, Guay, Arellano and Sierra, Valle, Tse-ming,); Portrait of a Plane Bomber; Melancholy and Murder; Schizophrenia; Organic Brain Disease; Character Disorder and Murder; Children Who Kill; Mental Deficiency and Murder; Sex Murders; Firesetting and Murder; Self-Murder; The Insanity Plea in Murder; The Death Penalty; Prevention of Criminal Homicide; Homicides in Fiction. With References and Index. 420pp. lge 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. V. lightly browned edges and neat name insc. of previous owner o/w Nr. F. A fairly heavy book which may require additional postage.