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Review title: Inside the Criminal Mind
Product review: This book was recommended to me by officials of a maximum security prison where I work as a volunteer, as a means of understanding the reality of the people I deal with. I have not finished the rant, er book, yet. And I probably won't. It seems to play on every worst fear anyone ever had about a criminal. But there seems to be little or no scientific backup for the author's many right-wing, tough-on-crime-sounding conclusions. I can see why this book is so popular among corrections people, and why the author enjoyed some notoriety during the Reagan years. But for anyone seriously interested in understanding criminals, go elsewhere. The only insights this book provides are ones about those tough-on-crime types who have succeeded in expanding the US prison population by about 500 percent over the last 20 years or so.
