The Jigsaw Man
by Paul Britton
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Britton is one of the country's leading criminal psychologists and offender profilers. Dubbed 'the real-life Cracker', he has assisted the police in over 100 cases including the murders of Jamie Bulger and Rachel Nickell.Tags
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This was certainly an interesting read, quite disturbing at times and Britton definitely casts himself in a undeniably biased positive light if one reads the book with an understanding of the Colin Stagg fiasco.
Interestingly, Stagg has since been completely vindicated by DNA testing which conclusively proved Robert Napper (whose case also appears in this book) was the perpetrator, yet in a failure of criminal profiling, in this very book Britton writes that it is not possible for the same killer to have done both crimes as they are so different.
Overall, despite being dated by the above events which occurred a decade after the book was published it is still an disturbing insight into numerous other crimes that Britton was involved in show more developing profiles for.
I would recommend this for anyone with an interest in true crime or psychopathology. show less
Interestingly, Stagg has since been completely vindicated by DNA testing which conclusively proved Robert Napper (whose case also appears in this book) was the perpetrator, yet in a failure of criminal profiling, in this very book Britton writes that it is not possible for the same killer to have done both crimes as they are so different.
Overall, despite being dated by the above events which occurred a decade after the book was published it is still an disturbing insight into numerous other crimes that Britton was involved in show more developing profiles for.
I would recommend this for anyone with an interest in true crime or psychopathology. show less
I won this book from a giveaway from this site. This is my first book by this author. I enjoyed reading it. It had a good variety of characters in it. It would make a good pay tv movie.
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The Jigsaw Man.
Paul Britton.
After reading the body farm I was interested in reading more about psychological profiling.
I read part of this book to Peter but part of it was so upsetting that he felt sick and had to leave the room and asked me not to read him anymore.
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9/10
The Jigsaw Man.
Paul Britton.
After reading the body farm I was interested in reading more about psychological profiling.
I read part of this book to Peter but part of it was so upsetting that he felt sick and had to leave the room and asked me not to read him anymore.
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9/10
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- Canonical title
- The Jigsaw Man
- Original title
- The Jigsaw Man: The Remarkable Career of Britain's Foremost Criminal Psychologist
- Original publication date
- 1997
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 364 — Society, government, & culture Social problems and social services Crime
- LCC
- HV6080 .B686 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Criminal anthropology
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- Reviews
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- Languages
- Dutch, English, German, Polish
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 13
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