New evil. Features of violent crimes and the motivation of those who commit them. Gift edition. Stone M., Brukato G.

A variety of forms of evil behind serious crimes can easily go beyond our understanding. The first step towards understanding all this is the classification process. The authors of the book divided the motives of murders and other serious crimes into 22 clearly defined gradations that vary from the smallest evil (murder for self -defense) to extreme evil (murder as a result of torture). To better clarify the differences between the categories of the scale, the book contains very detailed stories of cases of a number of people attributed to each of them. This approach gives the reader tools for analyzing motives underlying violent crimes, thereby helping a little better to comprehend the unthinkable.

1: Murder for self -defense or justified murder

2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 6: impulsive killings by persons without psychopathic traits

7, 8: faces with some psychopathic features or without them; more serious murders

9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14: pronounced psychopathic features; murders from evil intent

15, 16: multiple or mass killers; Explicit psychopathy

17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22: serial killers, tormentors, sadists