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Review Essays of Academic, Professional & Technical Books in the Humanities & Sciences

 

 

Into the Minds of Madmen: How the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit Revolutionized Crime Investigation by Don Denevi & John H. Campbell, with a foreword by John E. Otto & a preface by Stephen Band  (Prometheus Books) When law enforcement struggles to solve a serial murder, arson, rape, or child abduction, and is making little headway, it turns to the FBI's legendary Behavioral Sciences Unit (BSU) at the FBI Academy in Quantico , Virginia . Over the past three decades more than thirty members of this elite team have worked to capture countless elusive criminals and solve in excess of twenty thousand cases. Rarely have they been appreciated. Never has their story been told. More

A Life for a Life: Life Imprisonment: America's Other Death Penalty by James A. Paluch, Jr., edited by Thomas J. Bernard & Robert Johnson (Roxbury) James A. Paluch, Jr. is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. In A Life for a Life, he offers the reader a detailed account of the daily realities of prison life in its mundane essentials, from the culture of the cellblock to the etiquette of the yard and the mess hall. The book also highlights concepts of prisonization, institutionalization, and the community, as well as the nature of modern punishment. More

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