Liamcrime

Geoffroy Wansell is a leading playwright and political author. He taught British Politics at the University of Sheffield. In 2011, he published ‘the bus stop killer’ this book is all about Levi Bellfield now identified as Yusuf Rahim. The book details a heavy focus upon his victims, their personalities and characteristics which made them targeted to be battered, raped and murdered by Levi Bellfield. The context is very verbally graphic, detailed and emotive. Throughout reading the book, I became disturbed by what I was reading on the account of what Bellfield did to his numerous victims. The stalking, the verbal sexual confrontation of young girls, his fascination of young school girls, and the ‘image’ of a school girl. Arguably he is a paedophile. Not only this, details of how he treated his numerous sexual and committed relationships which were evidently controlling, toxic and abusive. Many thoughts ran through my head as to why the women in question stayed by his side. Was it...

Murderous Minds by Dean A Haycock- A book review.  Dean A Haycock is an author who I highly recommend for anyone studying Criminology, Psychology, anthropology, and Neuroscience. He specialises in Science and Medicine. This is shown through his PhD research in Neuroscience from the Brown University in Rhode Island. I thoroughly enjoyed reading his book ‘murderous minds’. It is important to note that the research displayed in the book does acknowledge the separation between psychopathy and violence.   This book does explore the minds of a subsection of psychopaths. They have been classified as ‘criminal psychopaths’. This is the distinction between those who have ‘successful psychopathic tendencies’ such as struggling to comprehend and adapt to social situations, reading body language and emotional cues, but do not act on these lacking abilities in a criminalising manner. Encompassing the ‘criminal psychopath’ Dean explains that there are characteristics which could m...