We’re used to thinking that people become criminals because of difficult life circumstances: an unhealthy family, poverty, bad company. But in reality, it doesn’t depend on where a person comes from or what they’re interested in. A criminal is a predisposition, a feature of the brain’s structure. You can’t negotiate with a criminal or lead them onto the right path. All they want is to deceive law-abiding people and always demand more from others.
Stanton Samenow is a specialist in how people behave—who spent 44 years studying the minds of criminals—explains the thinking patterns of a criminal personality: from con artists and internet offenders to murderers and terrorists. You’ll realize that what you knew before is fundamentally wrong. You’ll discover:
— the strategies criminals use;
— why they can’t stop and want to deceive others;
— ways to identify criminal personalities and protect yourself.