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Summary: Close those windows and Lock those doors
Review: ...because when you sit down to read this book it will give you a new awareness on just how safe (or unsafe) you are.Douglas is brilliant! Those inclined to thoughts of fancy (and an over-active imagination) may want to stay clear of this subject matter, but if you're not feignt of heart then you'll definitely want to here what years of experience has taught this man. It's a must read for every woman out there.
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Summary: Stalking The Monster
Review: Having read all of the books John Douglas has put out regarding his time as an FBI profiler, the first thing that came to mind is why he didn't crash and burn from the constant drumbeat of depravity. To say that we need someone of this level of commitment to stand between us and that kind of immorality is an understatement. I thought I would not like grim and graphic descriptions of his work. I was wrong. The book is taut, enlightening and scary, all at the same time. He cites specific cases including the preppie murder case and brought to the surface aspects of the case that I had been previously unaware. It is tough to make such a narrative read as a thriller but I think that Douglas and his co-author Mark Olshaker have done the best they can with the glut of the material. I highly recommend it to any and all who desire to make sense out of the senseless. Douglas and Olshaker do their best to make it understandable.
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Summary: Excellent book
Review: I am the Director of the Criminal Justice Department at dodge city community college and I have read all of John Douglas's books and even met him in person, and I believe this is one of his best books. Douglas is able to explain psychological and criminological theories in a way that the average person can understand. One thing I really liked about this book was the attention he gave the crime victims. The victims of the crimes are usually overlooked by our system. It was through this book that I met the Schmidt family in Kansas City who lost their 20 yr old daughter to a sexual predator. They were the ones who introduced me to John Douglas. The book is an excellent book for explaining the motivation of rapists, and other sex offenders. This book has been very helpful to me, I have cited in many times in term papers I have written on psychopaths and other predators.
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Summary: Long on preaching, short on teaching
Review: I bought this book after reading John Douglas' first 2 books. I have to say this book was a huge disappointment. The actual substance of the book could easily be boiled down to less than 100 pages. I suppose the authors felt that this wasn't enough so they rambled on and on about some woman named Fairstein who works in New York (one of the authors seems to have some sort of 'crush' on this woman) and other barely relevant and mostly uninteresting topics. At one point I started to wonder if this book was actually about Miss Fairstein and not about profiling at all. The details of actual cases and methods for profiling and solving the cases (for the ones that were solved) was as interesting as ever, but the long winded philosophizing about controversial subjects that did not relate to the cases or the process of solving them was extremely annoying. Each chapter could be cut in half by simply deleting all the long sermons and pointless rambling.
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Summary: On The Money
Review: I know people feel that the market has been flooded by former FBI Agents and their books about serial killers, but when you want on the mark conversations, ideas, thoughts, etc. you need look no further than John Douglas. He and Mr. Olshacker, have given us a deep insight to the people who commit horrific crimes and the whys, hows, and how they caught them. I felt that this book was more instructional than the previous ones and I feel that if people are only looking for gore this is not the book for you. But true students of the mind will find this an interesting read.
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Summary: Honors victims and homicide survivors (oxymoron)
Review: I wept, wept and in a way still weeping. John Douglas is masterful at profiling and gives us the knowledge and the warning signs of. Since murderers don't just wake up one day and decide to start killing. In this book I feel that he also challenges the murderers (probably ones operating right now if their pick up his book) to view their victims as human beings and not just object to be humiliated and controlled. I can hear the voices of the victims and their families crying out for justice no, demanding for justice against the "losers" that seek to control them. Highly recommend this book.
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Summary: had a personally emotional effect...
Review: I've been a fan of several of Douglas's books, finding them facinating. But I never thought I would relate to one of the stories directly....until i got to "Katie's Story". Destiny Souza was a classmate of mine, and a neighbor. It was emotional to read what happened to her, and the reactions of members of our community I looked up to as a child, because they were involved in my life also. When it happened, being a child, details were given to me pretty vaguely, but reading the story as an adult was a really good expirience for me. As with all his books, i've learned a great deal about how to observe and interact with people and keep myself safe in the process.
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Summary: Obsession by John Douglas & Mark Olshaker
Review: If you want to understand what makes serial killers and serial rapists this is the masterpiece. There is some very graphic descriptions of what some of these amoral criminal minds have done. Every one, even the faint of heart should read the sections about what characteristics to look out for and how to make yourself less likely target.
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Summary: Very Disturbing Look at the Criminal Mind
Review: In Obsession, John Douglas gives the reader a brief glimpse into the criminal mind and a short overview of the process of criminal profiling. I like the fact that he refuses to make any excuses for criminals (coming from a dysfunctional family, childhood abuse, insanity, etc.) He makes it very clear that regardless of a person's background or previous experiences, the execution of a crime is always voluntary....that the criminal made a choice to disregard the consequences of his actions, and inflict consequences on an innocent victim. The only thing I didn't really care for too much in this book was the fact that so little was devoted to actual criminal profiling. Most of the book is dedicated to victim's rights and how to prevent yourself from becoming a victim. While there is nothing wrong with such topics, and he does make some very excellent points, I felt a little bit shortchanged after becoming intrigued with the coverage of criminal psychology...intrigued enough to look into it further as a possible career, and then the rest of the book jumps into victim's rights and never looks back.
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Summary: Very Disturbing Look at the Criminal Mind
Review: In Obsession, John Douglas gives the reader a brief glimpse into the criminal mind and a short overview of the process of criminal profiling. I like the fact that he refuses to make any excuses for criminals (coming from a dysfunctional family, childhood abuse, insanity, etc.) He makes it very clear that regardless of a person's background or previous experiences, the execution of a crime is always voluntary....that the criminal made a choice to disregard the consequences of his actions, and inflict consequences on an innocent victim. The only thing I didn't really care for too much in this book was the fact that so little was devoted to actual criminal profiling. Most of the book is dedicated to victim's rights and how to prevent yourself from becoming a victim. While there is nothing wrong with such topics, and he does make some very excellent points, I felt a little bit shortchanged after becoming intrigued with the coverage of criminal psychology...intrigued enough to look into it further as a possible career, and then the rest of the book jumps into victim's rights and never looks back.
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