- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Pennant Books Ltd (25 Aug 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1906015171
- ISBN-13: 978-1906015176
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 296,545 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Acclaimed crime writer Davis turns her incisive eye on society's most extreme transgressors: those who would kill a child for gratification. Unflinching yet sensitive, this study needs to be read by all: parents, legal guardians, educators and law enforcement agents. In bringing her criminological insight to bear on such traumatising crimes as the Soham killings and the murder of Sarah Payne, Carol Anne Davis describes a predatory world of abuse which needs to be recognised. Among the interviewees assisting the author is a former Scotland Yard detective who went undercover to expose society's most despised criminals.
About the Author
Carol Anne Davis was born in Dundee, moved to Edinburgh in her twenties and now lives in south-west England. She left school at 15 and was everything from an artist's model to an editorial assistant before taking an MA with elements of criminology. A full-time writer since graduating, her crime novels Sob Story, Kiss It Away, Noise Abatement, Safe as Houses and Shrouded have been described as chillingly realistic for their portrayals of sex and death. Carol's website is located at www.carolannedavis.co.uk
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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Carol Anne Davis is a criminologist but she ought to have been a detective. In her latest work, she has examined the details of murdering paedophiles in minute detail; it is a great pity that the full depravities of those killers are often not revealed in court. The first three sections of the book are devoted to the case histories of the killers, in England, the United States and then the rest of the world.
The very last section of the book looks at identifying paedophiles at an early stage, of how parents can teach their children to react and this, like the rest of the book is tremendously well written and informative. It also deals with `Treatment Options' on how paedophiles can be registered, monitored etc. There are some good schemes, whereas others, `Befriending Schemes' are gormless and `Naming and Shaming', a recipe for disaster.
Like all good detectives, Ms Davis is hard to fool; she sees right through the paedophiles classic manipulative strokes. She liaised with `Ray Gardner' who, as an undercover police officer posed as a paedophile and was able to divulge how the perverts told him to react if he was arrested, how to behave during interrogation, to deny everything in court until conviction was a foregone conclusion, then burst into tears and confess. It need not be a full confession but it would be sufficient to turn himself from predator into victim - `just', as Tommy Cooper was prone to say, `like that'. Eagerly swallowing the paedophiles tearful contrition, judges sentence and social workers treat accordingly, so that these revolting pieces of dreg can be released into the community so much sooner to offend again, often with fatal consequences for the victim.
This is a definitive book on paedophiles which should be required reading by every parent and every working police officer. It should also be read by the judiciary, the prison and probation services, plus social workers and every member of every soppy organisation who believe they alone have the key to curing paedophiles. When they read `Ray Gardner's' words, like it or not, they will realise that there is no cure.
A brilliantly written book and one which is highly recommended.
The very last section of the book looks at identifying paedophiles at an early stage, of how parents can teach their children to react and this, like the rest of the book is tremendously well written and informative. It also deals with `Treatment Options' on how paedophiles can be registered, monitored etc. There are some good schemes, whereas others, `Befriending Schemes' are gormless and `Naming and Shaming', a recipe for disaster.
Like all good detectives, Ms Davis is hard to fool; she sees right through the paedophiles classic manipulative strokes. She liaised with `Ray Gardner' who, as an undercover police officer posed as a paedophile and was able to divulge how the perverts told him to react if he was arrested, how to behave during interrogation, to deny everything in court until conviction was a foregone conclusion, then burst into tears and confess. It need not be a full confession but it would be sufficient to turn himself from predator into victim - `just', as Tommy Cooper was prone to say, `like that'. Eagerly swallowing the paedophiles tearful contrition, judges sentence and social workers treat accordingly, so that these revolting pieces of dreg can be released into the community so much sooner to offend again, often with fatal consequences for the victim.
This is a definitive book on paedophiles which should be required reading by every parent and every working police officer. It should also be read by the judiciary, the prison and probation services, plus social workers and every member of every soppy organisation who believe they alone have the key to curing paedophiles. When they read `Ray Gardner's' words, like it or not, they will realise that there is no cure.
A brilliantly written book and one which is highly recommended.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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brilliant book but makes you think when you have kids of your own the ages of some of them in this book.... brings a tear to your eye to think of what they must have gone through
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This book is so basic and simplistically written, if it wasn't for the subject matter you'd think it was written for kids. I guess its the problem with trying to fit so much about such a deep subject into one book, each chapter is ludicrously short and basically "he did this and then he did that and then he did something else" in an almost introductory fashion without any depth or analysis.
If you've no knowledge of true crime and forensic psychology, this might be ok. But if you're like me and read that sort of thing all the time, you'll be hugely disappointed.
If you've no knowledge of true crime and forensic psychology, this might be ok. But if you're like me and read that sort of thing all the time, you'll be hugely disappointed.
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