Book description
'I think you have something here' I said,
'This could lead to a whole new way of understanding criminal behaviour. As far as I know no one's ever tried to figure out why serial killers kill. The implications are profound.'
Haunting, heartfelt, and deeply human, Dr Ann Burgess's remarkable memoir…
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This is a non-fiction memoir about Ann Wolpert Burgess' contributions to science, law enforcement, and overcoming the patriarchy. As an expert nurse of the doctoral level, Burgess changed the entire way the FBI, victims, and other legal parties view victims of sexual violence. She invented the the FBI's way to comparatively analyze serial killers and repeat offenders by focusing on the victims, which to that point in time had been ignored.
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