The Monsters We Make: Murder, Obsession, and the Rise of Criminal Profiling

The Monsters We Make: Murder, Obsession, and the Rise of Criminal ProfilingA taut, riveting work of true crime that tells the strange story of criminal profiling from Victorian times to our own. Criminal profilingthe delicate art of collecting and deciphering the psychological fingerprints of the monsters among usholds 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? In The Monsters We Make, prize winning author Rachel Corbett explores how

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and how desperation draws out our most destructive impulses

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