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My Life with Murderers: Behind Bars with the World’s Most Violent Men

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My Life with Murderers by David Wilson | Hachette UK

Having found his talk extremely intriguing as well as spellbinding, I could have happily sat there all day and listened to him talking, I bought a copy of this book after the event where he was signing copies. Z pewnością po lekturze tej książki miałam mieszane odczucia, jako, że spodziewałam się zupełnie czegoś innego. The public saw it as an aberration and one off while English politicians used Bulger to further their get tough agendas. Overall, the writing wasn't great (quite monotonous and dull, a bit like a textbook) and the subject was alright, just not that gripping. Thoroughly enjoyable and knowledgeable, especially if you thinking of going going down the criminology route as am I.

Is it events from their own childhood that has shaped them into who they are today or can you really just be born evil? During the course of making the documentary, Wilson came to the conclusion that Spencer was a classic psychopath and goes into great depth to explain why he thinks this, and why and how he thinks Bert came to murder Carl. Although the story may warrant 3 stars, I rate this book only 2 stars because of the misrepresentation in the title and cover. The last chapter covering the murder of a paperboy and how Bert Spencer managed to evade justice os an indictment of the police incompetence.

My Life with Murderers - Nottingham Playhouse David Wilson - My Life with Murderers - Nottingham Playhouse

I liked the mix of murder types described here, and felt the book did a good overall job at addressing various types of murderers and how they came to commit them, with a mixture of individual and social circumstances. Prior to taking up an academic appointment in 1997, David was a prison governor working at a variety of establishments in a number of different roles.This is an interesting and insightful account of Wilson's life working in various prisons before moving into the academic world looking at the psychology of the men he once kept behind bars. In a career spanning 40 years, David has met all sorts of killers: hitmen, mass, spree and serial killers and those murderers who seem to kill “in 5 minutes of madness”. He intersperses stories of notorious cases - from Denis Nilsen to the murder of James Bulger - to illustrate his themes which include the social nature of crime, and how the murderer is a product of society. I think he went out of his way to make it non-glorious and factual and I think that’s what some people seem to have disliked. Rather this book looks at broader aspects of prison life, murder cases, criminology, criminal psychology and justice reforms.

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