BOOK REVIEW

Book: Criminal psychology-Sketching the criminal's portrait - Diep Hong Vu

The market line of books on criminal psychology is mostly new, rarely exploited, and relatively young.

This book by Diep Hong Vu belongs to the new line of books above, with a rather catchy title, book narration, written based on 36 classic cases of the FBI. In my opinion, I do not recommend this book to you. The book is not thick but holds up to 36 cases, making it overload. Each case is analyzed quite roughly, generally and vaguely. The content of the case described in the book is sometimes inferior to an online newspaper, or Wikipedia in terms of detail. Books on psychology, but the roles of psychologists and criminal psychology are shown faintly, not too clearly in each case. Their conclusions are drawn straight, without process, so the readers cannot figure out the reason.

The book has 8 chapters, but basically the content of each chapter has the same structure, not expressing the main idea per chapter. Instead of being an in-depth book on psychology, I think it's more like an introductory book about 36 classic cases (although many of them are not very classic). Another minus point of the book is that many crimes of the perpetrator have not been proven or convicted, the author hastily condemned and convicted for the judge.

The line of criminal psychology books is quite new, the source of the book is really limited and hard to find, so if anyone is interested in psychology, you still can read it, know a little more about the cases described in the book.

As a personal reader, my views will also be personal.

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