An edition of The Sexual Criminal (1956)

The sexual criminal

a psychoanalytical study

2nd ed. / edited with an introduction by Brian King.
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An edition of The Sexual Criminal (1956)

The sexual criminal

a psychoanalytical study

2nd ed. / edited with an introduction by Brian King.
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Originally published fifty years ago as a criminology/sexology textbook for law enforcement personnel, The Sexual Criminal is a fascinating glimpse at the seedy L.A. Confidential underbelly of a dark and fetid Los Angeles, a city littered with innumerable true-life noir characters: a hophead butcher who eviscerates his dance-hall girlfriend; an electrician who makes love to his pet collie; an Italian immigrant who engages in clandestine necrophilia; an inebriated hustler who strangles his homosexual meal ticket; an adulterous housewife who puts rat poison in her husband's coffee. Written in a terse, Dragnet-like style by the controversial autocratic director of the Los Angeles Police Department's Sex Offense Bureau, and graphically illustrated with mugshots and harshly-lit photographs of violently torn bodies, The Sexual Criminal is both an amazing sociological time capsule of a not-so-distant era in the history of Los Angeles and a voyeuristic, prurient examination of the explosive sex lives of its inhabitants.

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Bloat
Language
English
Pages
446

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The sexual criminal: a psychoanalytical study
2000, Bloat
in English - 2nd ed. / edited with an introduction by Brian King.
Cover of: The sexual criminal
Cover of: The Sexual Criminal
The Sexual Criminal: a psychoanalytical study.
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Published in
Burbank, Calif

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
364.15/3
Library of Congress
HQ71 .D4 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
lxxii, 446 p. :
Number of pages
446

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3971859M
ISBN 10
0965032426
LCCN
2001280258
Library Thing
1116691
Goodreads
572223

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