This was closer to a 2.5 stars non-fiction read, if read in post 2010 era. For a lot of people this will seem weird as the book is very gruesome and terrifying but I just found it pretty damn interesting.Woefully dated opinions and attitudes abound this book. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Ressler also explains the meaning of the term ‘serial killer’, which he coined — not simply a numerical series, but an evolutive series in which fantasy and act develop into an ever expanding loop While some aspects of this work have become outdated in the twenty-odd years since it was published, it still deserves its spot as one of the foundational works in criminal profiling. That being said, I could not stand the attitude of the author who spent a great deal of time bragging about his many accomplishments, how much smarter he was than everyone else and on and on. He is the author of Whoever Fights Monsters and the inspiration for one of the main characters in the Netflix Original Series Mindhunter. Modesty isn't Ressler's strong suit, as even the subtitle attests, but his career is packed with so many amazing episodes- -well related here with the help of Shachtman (Skyscraper Dreams, 1991, etc. I got this book on ILL through the library, and settled in for a morbid and fascinating read.This book was suggested to me by a friend because I really enjoyed the book This book was suggested to me by a friend because I really enjoyed the book This is one of the classics - for good reason as it turns out - and I was pleasantly surprised by how well it's held up. I think that the character of Jack Crawford from THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS is based off of him as well, but don't quote me on that. A few of the stories are the same, some almost word-for-word. 4) a profound and insightful ‘deep-dive’ into the inner workings of serial mind. Woefully dated opinions and attitudes abound this book. Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI By Robert K. Ressler I just finished reading this fascinating novel by Ressler Sunday night. During his time at the bureau, he worked on many of the top crime cases and interviewed many of the most notorious humans of the 20th century. The book is still very iI recently read Mindhunter, and there's a lot of overlap with that book and this one. You can read online Whoever Fights Monsters and write the review. First hearing about it on I don’t know how I’d never heard of this book before. Indeed one of the most controversial assertions in “Whoever Fights Monsters” for today’s standards is the correlation of body types and the likelihood of committing crimes.Robert Ressler says that it’s simple logic: introverted schizophrenics don’t eat well. 3 customer ratings.
It's like I'm sixteen again. I believe it was originally published in the early '90s, but I was handcuffed to audio books at that time. He played a significant role in the psychological profiling of violent offenders in the 1970s and is often credited with coining the term "serial killer. Being one of those people who never seems to have enough time for the things I have to do and the things I want to do if a book doesn't catch my interest in the first few pages it goes to the boring pile. I really didn't have an opportunity to read it. He talks about a great many murderers, and has a wonderfully practical, commonsense style, both in writing and in his approach to analyzing homicidal psychotics and psychopaths. Ressler talks about journalists and agents going after the famous serial killers just for being able to say they spoke to Charles Manson or to make a scoop.He says these journalists often don’t get valuable information because of the silly questions they ask.Much better, Ressler says, would have been to ask what reasons Manson had to cut the victim’s ear.I think “Whoever Fights Monsters” is an important book to read for all psychologists and psychiatrists, but it’s not very scientific:I have a certain feeling this book promotes a lot of confirmation bias and an over-confidence on the profiling abilities of the FBI detectives (starting with Robert Ressler himself).Ressler does not shy away from bragging of how good his profiles were, yet he does not say talk nearly enough of all the times they were wrong.I would have preferred a more scientific look into this: how reliable is profiling?The profiling that the author espouses, for example saying that it’s mostly white males, might lead people into the wrong conclusions.For example, it does not take into account that the US overall population has more white males than, say, white Asians.I didn’t find the profiles to be very enlightening. I found myself chuckling every time the author said something like “as of 1993…” The book makes a distinction between organized and disorganized murderers and the different traits between each.
I really didn't have an opportunity to read it. On the one hand, it was completely fascinating and the author's experience and expertise was a totally new perspective for me.This is a hard book to review. He's also the author of several books of history, including How the French Saved America. Robert K. Ressler. A few questions we endlessly debate are : What factors create a serial killer ? Buy Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI by Ressler, Robert K. (ISBN: 8601406104822) from Amazon's Book … For all their morbid and brutal history, why do people flock to read true crime books, fictional accounts and movies about these characters ?
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