{"product_id":"american-evil-the-psychology-of-serial-killers-9781909976795","title":"American Evil: The Psychology of Serial Killers","description":"\u003cp\u003eBased on clinical experience of killers. Includes a selection of USA\/UK serial killer studies. Exposes police and other failings and shortcomings and the perversity of 'defences', 'excuses', etc. Strongly critical of USA gun laws and attitudes or perspectives making for an unhealthy environment, moral vacuum and lack of official\/individual awareness and responsibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr Eric Cullen describes how he was 'so profoundly moved' by his inescapable conclusions about how serial killers are 'made' that he felt compelled to set out his findings. A critic of the serial killer growth industry, unhealthy interest and ill-informed comment he sets the record straight. Serial killers are made not born.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut his more central polemic is that serial killers are one of several malign human by-products of a dysfunctional, unduly permissive society, overwhelmingly American, brought about by modern-day culture and lax moral standards (as also reflected in other countries to the extent that they pursue a comparable way of life).\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCullen, Eric:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Dr Eric Cullen was born in Kentucky, USA. After emigrating to England he became a British citizen and worked in borstals and other penal establishments including Grendon Underwood (the UK's ground-breaking therapeutic community (TC) prison). Later, he worked in the private sector, notably as lead consultant for Premier Prisons Ltd in their successful bid to build and run a new 200-bed TC for offenders at Dovegate Prison which opened in 2001. He has served as a magistrate, been a government advisor and written on related themes of murder, life imprisonment, treating personality disordered offenders, and TCs. He contributed to three acclaimed TV series including Voice of a Serial Killer, Voice of a Killer (both CBS Reality) and Making a Monster (Sky Crime + Investigation).","brand":"Waterside Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50377452159250,"sku":"9781909976795","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_47c6cc8e-fa53-419f-83db-56a57b20cbf6.jpg?v=1728622576","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/american-evil-the-psychology-of-serial-killers-9781909976795","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}