Criminal Psychology: Understanding the Criminal Mind and Its Nature Through Criminal Profiling Paperback – February 3, 2016

Found the book at a job and used on a class. I wanted my own copy. I believe the book is well written and informative.

I am someone who wants to become one of the best Detectives in the world I gave this book a chance and I understand more about criminals than I thought I did, my sense of justice changed after completing this book and I came back to leave a perfect rating to show my appreciation for purchasing this book.

This "book" is more like a poorly written essay! It boasts of 104 pages, but what is neglected is the inappropriately large font that is used and the added paragraphs in alleged chapters that say "we will talk about it later." Not only is it poorly written and unedited, but it could be reduced to approximately 20 pages in standard format and by eliminating the needless paragraphs saying the topic will be addressed later. A google search of "criminal psychology" would be extremely in-depth by comparison and far more scintillating! This glorified pamphlet can't even be used as a doorstop. The author's conscience is questionable as are the author's ethics because they have chosen to sell this drivel, label it a book, include a table of contents (no doubt to add another page to the count) to suggest something worthy of being called a chapter, and largely repeat what had already been covered in differing general terms elsewhere in the "book!" BUYER BEWARE: You would be better served by watching a single episode of some crime television series than reading this crap!

Criminal Psych was my major in college. I bought this book as a refresher and appreciate the research that was involved in putting this book together. The content is right on the mark, however it needs some updating with the school shootings and other mass shooting happening in the U.S. I would like to know why the U.S. has this problem and the rest of the world does not.

I like to watch crime shows and especially true crime stories these days, so I became very interested in how the mind of these killers work. I got this book just because of that.The book is not a professional, medical kind of textbook. It is written in plain language and it is very easy to understand for a beginner like me who knows next to nothing about psychology. I enjoyed reading it, it is really fascinating to see theories behind the killers mind and the way that they think. And kind of scary, too.I recommend the book, I liked it a lot. If you are interested in this kind of literature, it should provide you with some very interesting insights and it is fun to read too.

I was very disappointed with the lack of depth in the subject. While the writer does bring out a few salient points his poor writing skills and lack of details or evidence to support his conclusions left much to be desired. It was written as if he didn't have a decent command of the English language. Possibly not even a native English speaker. This was a major put off for such an important topic. Would also have loved for him to include references and proof to support his claims. As it is, I got the feeling that I was merely reading his personal opinion and nothing more. Too bad, I was really looking forward to a good read on the topic.

I bought this book for source material and was disappointed. The material seems solid, but at times is hard to read because of inconsistencies the tense of the text.

This was a great read, I've been intrigued by the criminal mind for sometime.I must admit that I couldn't put this book down! I found two chapters in particular very informative, Chapter 3 'Is discipline the issue' and chapter 4 'Get With The Program'.Chapter 3 discusses whether an upbringing has an influence in forming a criminal mind and chapter 4 highlights the very fact that an individuals state of mind has a major part to play.My favorite part of the book was Chapter 6 'Is the Gene pool to Blame' this made very interesting reading as the author discusses whether a criminal mind is hereditary.A great book and essential if you have an interest in criminal profiling or if you are simply intrigued by criminal psychology.