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Into the Minds of Madmen: How the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit Revolutionized Crime Investigation.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-MAY-04
Format: Online - approximately 874 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Into the Minds of Madmen: How the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit Revolutionized Crime Investigation.(Book Review)

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Into the Minds of Madmen: How the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit Revolutionized Crime Investigation Don DeNevi and John H. Campbell Prometheus Books www.prometheusbooks.com 483 pp., $28

Why are we fascinated with stories of serial killers and other bizarre criminals, flocking to movies like The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal? Is it to experience, briefly, a world of evil and madness before going back to our normal lives?

In Into the Minds of Madmen, we meet people who have spent their lives studying this world but do not have the luxury of escaping it when they go home at night. From the 1970s to the 1990s, the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit (BSU) used psychology, psychiatry, and other disciplines to capture this country's most prolific and horrific criminals, including murderers, rapists,...

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