Sunday e-mail 22nd September: The Index is back!
Whatdya mean, Substack? This here’s a Superstack!!
Here at the Crime & Psychology offices, all our staff-members are constantly thinking of news ways to please you, our riotous and rollicking readership! Every one of us – from the lowly office basement to the plushest penthouse of our plenipotentiaries – hopes you enjoyed our last few newsletters. We think you did…but we want to be sure you can find our peerless publications whenever the crazy Crime & Psychology bug bites!
With that in mind, allow me proudly to present the latest, updated, Crime & Psychology index! Click on anything that takes your interest. Believe me, there’s something here for everyone, whether you are interested in serial murder or superheroes, eyewitnesses or the I-45, voodoo or Valentine’s Day. Have fun and bring your friends!
By the way, out most popular post yet was on the Five Strangest Events in Criminal Psychology. If you are among the few poor souls who haven’t read it yet, what are you waiting for? I encourage you to click on this link. This week’s great Wednesday newsletter is going to be a follow-up. I call it Five More of the Strangest Events in Criminal Psychology! You’re going to love it. Make sure you don’t miss out!
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What do you want to read about?
The ongoing, superlative DICTIONARY OF CRIME (up to the letter L) is here. The letters M to Z are here.
READ ABOUT CRIME
Serial Murder
The Execution of a Serial Killer
Terrorism
This whole post leads up to a mention of terrorism
Witches, witchcraft, voodoo:
‘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’ and ‘When Criminologists Started to Use Numbers’.
Different approaches to criminology.
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
Alphonse Bertillon and his system for measuring criminals Part 1 and Part 2.
Cognitive Psychology: This post tells you everything you need to know.
Eysenck’s model of personality.
Francis Galton and ‘Composite Criminals’.
Free will is a complex topic. You can find a short introduction to it here. It also features in our newsletter on statistics, which you can find 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’ and Crime & Heuristics Parts 1 and 2.
Lobotomies feature in The Posts ‘The Brain Burglar’ and ‘An Explosively Violent Frontal Lobotomy’.
You can read about Abraham 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
Kenneth Bianchi, the ‘Hillside Strangler’.
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)
Great horror novels of the nineteenth century
The New York Times’ Best Books of the Century.
Non-fiction by the crime-writer James Ellroy.
You’ll fine a quick survey of some excellent (and some not so excellent) pulp fiction here and here.
I wrote a newsletter about strange parallels in the careers of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelists, Norman Mailer and William Styron. You can find it here. (I hope you will. I enjoyed writing this post, but it got less traction that I had expected.)
Superheroes feature in this Sunday e-mail and this newsletter about heroes and why we need them.
True-crime books – what are the best ones to read?
READ ABOUT FILM AND TELEVISION
Films noir especially for Christmas.
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