Criminal Shadows: Inside the Mind of the Serial Killer

Criminal Shadows: Inside the Mind of the Serial Killer
Criminal Shadows: Inside the Mind of the Serial Killer
Author David V. Canter
Subject Forensic Psychology
Published 1994
Publisher HarperCollins
Media type Print (Paperback)
Pages 412
Awards CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction (1994),
Anthony Award for Best True Crime (1995)
ISBN 1-928704-21-2
Website Criminal Shadows: Inside the Mind of the Serial Killer

Criminal Shadows: Inside the Mind of the Serial Killer[1] is a book written by English professor of psychology, David V. Canter[2]. It was the winner of two literary awards: the Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction (1994)[3] and the Anthony Award for Best True Crime (1995).[4]

Synopsis

A unique insight into some of Britain’s most notorious criminal investigations, this is the account of Professor Canter's experience as Britain’s leading pioneer in the new science of criminal psychological profiling.

Canter takes the reader step by step through his development of profiling and through many of his successes with this technique, by which the psychological traces surrounding the crime – the tell-tale patterns of behavior – were used to indicate the personality of the offender. Criminal Shadows, revealing privileged information for the first time about some of the world’s most gruesome crimes, introduces us to the detective work of the future.

Editions

The original hardcover edition was published by Hutchinson[5] in 1992 under the title Criminal Shadows: Detecting Rapists and Killers (ISBN: 0091747155). Under the present title (ISBN: 0002552159), it was published by HarperCollins as a hardcover in 1994 and as a paperback in 1995. Endeavor Press published the Kindle Edition E-book (ASIN: B019P27WJK) in 2015.

Awards

1994

CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction[3]

1995

Anthony Award for Best True Crime[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Criminal Shadows". Goodreads. Retrieved 2017-02-25.
  2. ↑ "Criminal Shadows: Inside the Mind of the Serial Killer - Professor David Canter". www.davidcanter.com. Retrieved 2017-02-25.
  3. 1 2 "Criminal Shadows — The Crime Writers' Association". www.thecwa.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-02-25.
  4. 1 2 "Winners and Nominees 1990s". Bouchercon. 2015-09-22. Retrieved 2017-02-25.
  5. ↑ "Criminal Shadows". Goodreads. Retrieved 2017-02-25.
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