Criminal Shadows: Inside the Mind of the Serial Killer
 First edition | |
| 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[]
External links[]
- Book review on The Independent
- As listed at the British Library
- As listed at the Library of Congress
- As listed at the University of Lincoln
- As listed at the National Library of Australia
References[]
- ^ "Criminal Shadows". Goodreads. Retrieved 2017-02-25.
- ^ "Criminal Shadows: Inside the Mind of the Serial Killer - Professor David Canter". www.davidcanter.com. Archived from the original on 2016-12-21. Retrieved 2017-02-25.
- ^ a b "Criminal Shadows — The Crime Writers' Association". www.thecwa.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-02-25.
- ^ a b "Winners and Nominees 1990s". Bouchercon. 2015-09-22. Retrieved 2017-02-25.
- ^ "Criminal Shadows". Goodreads. Retrieved 2017-02-25.
- 1994 non-fiction books
- Forensic psychology
- Non-fiction crime books
- Anthony Award-winning works