Incendiary : the psychiatrist, the mad bomber, and the invention of criminal profiling
(2017)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
363.325092/CANNELL,M

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 363.325092/CANNELL,M Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Minotaur Books, 2017
©2017
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

ix, 289 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781250048943, 125004894X
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Angel of justice -- Bomb squad -- Mr. Think -- Reverse psychiatry -- Poplar Street -- Up from the streets -- The Paramount -- "It will be buttoned" -- "Keep out of this" -- The publisher -- The truce -- The dead files -- Fair play -- Interrogation -- The smiling avenger -- Mr. Death -- Matteawan

Documents the nearly two-decade manhunt for a serial bomber in mid-twentieth-century New York, citing the contributions of police captain Howard Finney and psychiatrist James Brussel in developing investigative techniques that would shape new approaches in American law enforcement