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A Girl's Guide to the Criminal Mind: The Survival Handbook

A Girl's Guide to the Criminal Mind: The Survival Handbook - Paperback

by Alison Summers
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Availability:In StockContributor:Alison SummersPublish date:2016-11-04Pages:134
Language:EnglishPublisher:Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformISBN-13:9781523902347ISBN-10:1523902345UPC:9781523902347Book Category:PsychologyBook Subcategory:Forensic PsychologySize:9.02 x 5.98 x 0.29 inchesWeight:0.4211Product ID:SC5KG536Y9

The USA has 76 percent of the world's serial killers. During the 1980s, FBI special agents traveled around the country to conduct death row interviews with 198 of them. The FBI agents from Quantico gained valuable insights into a predator's mindset. This information formed the basis of a new field of study called behavioral profiling.

This face-to-face research continues today. Thousands of serial rapists and sexual murderers have disclosed tricks of the trade to criminal profilers and forensic psychiatrists. But what the professionals discovered about their modus operandi has never been made available to those who need it most-their prey-and Alison Summers wants to change that. She spent seven years collecting material from FBI behavioral profilers, and forensic psychologists and psychiatrists, and then she condensed a treasure trove of lifesaving information into this easy-to-read guide for women and girls.

Experts believe a predator's best weapon is surprise. In this book, Summers takes that weapon away. Using real-life cases, prison interviews, and testimonies by rape survivors, Summers analyzes elements that are needed for the criminal's plan to succeed, and how we might outwit him. She shows us how to view people and hunting grounds through predatory eyes, and lists simple precautions that have saved lives. The author reveals the most popular ruses and verbal persuasions predators to use to win a victim's trust.

A Girl's Guide to a Criminal Mind is an original and powerful survival guide for women and girls who want to take back the night.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformISBN-13:9781523902347ISBN-10:1523902345UPC:9781523902347Book Category:PsychologyBook Subcategory:Forensic PsychologySize:9.02 x 5.98 x 0.29 inchesWeight:0.4211Product ID:SC5KG536Y9

Alison Summers is the coauthor of Punch Me in the Stomach, an award-winning play that premiered at New York Theater Workshop. As a director of off-Broadway plays for more than a decade, Summers directed productions at many leading theaters including the Classic Stage Company, the Circle Repertory Company, New York Theater Workshop, and the Lincoln Center Lab.

Summers published her first book A Girl's Guide to Predators with Pan Macmillan in 2010. It is currently being developed as a TV series.

Originally from Sydney, Australia, Alison Summers lives in Brooklyn with her two sons and their dog.
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