Sunday e-mail 21th April: The Index of Crime & Psychology!
Everything you need to know about Crime & Psychology. And where to find it!
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A plethora of of readers has been in touch. All had the same plaintive plea: We love Crime & Psychology! These newletters are the highlight of our week! We’d love to know more but don’t know where to start. Jason, could you inform us with an incisive index?
Never one to let a reader suffer, I’ve made the rip-roaring resolution to do just that. Just because you demanded it, here it is, the first incredible instalment of our incomparable index! Look out for more of these, every few months, as our resume grows loftier and larger…
There seemed little point dishing the data datewise. Topic by topic, that’s what we want. Here’s our rollickin’ remedial reading. Have fun, Crime & Psychology fan!! Many newsletters appear multiple times in the list, because they contain multiple topics. No one ever accused me of short-changing my superlative Substack readers.
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The ongoing, superlative DICTIONARY OF CRIME is here. It’s the latest edition, so you don’t need to fear missing out on any of the wondrous words within.
READ ABOUT CRIME
Serial Murder
Terrorism
This whole post leads up to a mention of terrorism
Witches & witchcraft:
‘The Psychology of the Witch-Craze’
READ ABOUT PSYCHOLOGY
Psychology methods
How Psychology is done. Check out ‘The Causes of Crime’. You could also look at ‘What We Think About When We Think About Crime’.
Offender profiling and one of its high-profile failures feature here.
Offender profiling of female murderers.
Offender profiling – an early case
Interesting ideas in Psychology
Cognitive Psychology: This post tells you everything you need to know.
Eysenck’s model of personality.
Free will is a complex topic. You can find a short introduction to it here.
Freudian psychology informs the newsletter on LAPD ’53.
Heuristics and other short-cuts in thinking feature in ‘The Psychology of the Witch Craze’ and ’What We Think About When We Think About Crime’
Lobotomies feature in The Posts ‘The Brain Burglar’ and ‘An Explosively Violent Frontal Lobotomy’.
You can read about Maslow’s famous Hierarchy of Needs here.
Psychopathy features in the newsletter about Lucy Letby.
Schema Theory explains a lot of the processes behind human thinking.
Social Identity Theory helps to explain why groups of people so often conflict with each other.
READ ABOUT A SPECIFIC CRIME OR CRIMINAL
George Metesky, the Mad Bomber of New York/The Times Square Killer.
Robert Abel and the serial murders on the I-45.
Savonarola in ‘The Hammer of the Witches’.
READ ABOUT BOOKS AND LITERATURE
Comic books and crime fiction feature prominently in my short history of Manhattan crime.
Crime and punishment – what to read: Sunday e-mail 4th February - by Jason Frowley PhD (substack.com)
Non-fiction by the crime-writer James Ellroy.
You’ll fine a quick survey of some pulp fiction here.
True-crime books – what are the best ones to read?
READ ABOUT FILM AND TELEVISION
Films noir especially for Christmas.
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