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A CHILLING FOLLOW-UP TO THE POPULAR TRUE CRIME BOOK THE ANATOMY OF
EVIL Revisiting Dr. Michael Stone's groundbreaking 22-level
Gradations of Evil Scale, a hierarchy of evil behavior first
introduced in the book The Anatomy of Evil, Stone and Dr. Gary
Brucato, a fellow violence and serious psychopathology expert, here
provide even more detail, using dozens of cases to exemplify the
categories along the continuum. The New Evil also presents
compelling evidence that, since a cultural tipping-point in the
1960s, certain types of violent crime have emerged that in earlier
decades never or very rarely occurred. The authors examine the
biological and psychiatric factors behind serial killing, serial
rape, torture, mass and spree murders, and other severe forms of
violence. They persuasively argue that, in at least some cases, a
collapse of moral faculties contributes to the commission of such
heinous crimes, such that "evil" should be considered not only a
valid area of inquiry, but, in our current cultural climate, an
imperative one. They consider the effects of new technologies and
sociological, cultural, and historical factors since the 1960s that
may have set the stage for "the new evil." Further, they explain
how personality, psychosis, and other qualities can meaningfully
contribute to particular crimes, making for many different motives.
Relying on their extensive clinical experience, and examination of
writings and artwork by infamous serial killers, these experts
offer many insights into the logic that drives horrible criminal
behavior, and they discuss the hope that in the future such
violence may be prevented.
FROM NARCISSISM TO AGGRESSION, AN ORIGINAL LOOK AT THE PERSONALITY
TRAITS AND BEHAVIORS THAT CONSTITUTE EVIL In this groundbreaking
book, renowned psychiatrist Michael H. Stone explores the concept
and reality of evil from a new perspective. In an in-depth
discussion of the personality traits and behaviors that constitute
evil across a wide spectrum, Dr. Stone takes a clarifying
scientific approach to a topic that for centuries has been
inadequately explained by religious doctrines. Stone has created a
22-level hierarchy of evil behavior, which loosely reflects the
structure of Dante's Inferno. Basing his analysis on the detailed
biographies of more than 600 violent criminals, hetraces two
salient personality traits that run the gamut from those who commit
crimes of passion to perpetrators of sadistic torture and murder.
One trait is narcissism, as exhibited in people who are so
self-centered that they have little or no ability to care about
their victims. The other is aggression, the use of power over
another person to inflict humiliation, suffering, and death. What
do psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience tell us about the minds
of those whose actions could be described as evil? And what will
that mean for the rest of us? Stone discusses how an increased
understanding of the causes of evil will affect the justice system.
He predicts a day when certain persons can safely be declared
salvageable and restored to society and when early signs of
violence in children may be corrected before potentially dangerous
patterns become entrenched.
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