2008-09-06 Brilliant

I have just finished reading his book and it is brilliant! It is a great mix of true crime, academic criminology and new journalism. It also suggests new theories about how to look at serial killing - based on Wilson's other books and his career working with serial killers - and he suggests that we should stop analysing the serial killers and their motivation, and instead look at the people that they are able to kill. He calls this the "structural tradition". I read some of the other reviews and they didn't seem to pick up on this aspect of what has been argued here - despite the fact that Harrison and especially Wilson were at pains to draw this point out, and which explains why they were not in least concerned about interviewing Wright (although they did interview several Wright family members).
Brilliant read and I would recommend this to anyone who wants to try and understand serial killing in a completely different way.