Incendiary
Subtitle: the psychiatrist, the mad bomber, and the invention of criminal profiling
By: Michael Cannell
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9781250048943
Subjects: State & Local; HISTORY; TRUE CRIME; Law Enforcement; Criminal psychology; Bombings; POLITICAL SCIENCE; Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA); Prediction of Criminal behavior; Case studies
Description: Documents the nearly two-decade manhunt for a serial bomber in mid-twentieth-century New York, citing the contributions of police captain Howard Finney and psychiatrist James Brussel in developing investigative techniques that would shape new approaches in American law enforcement.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-279) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Angel of justice; title: Bomb squad; title: Mr. Think; title: Reverse psychiatry; title: Poplar Street; title: Up from the streets; title: The Paramount; title: "It will be buttoned"; title: "Keep out of this"; title: The publisher; title: The truce; title: The dead files; title: Fair play; title: Interrogation; title: The smiling avenger; title: Mr. Death; title: Matteawan; title: Epilogue.