By Ann Rule
ISBN-10: 1416500030
ISBN-13: 9781416500032
The darkish part of affection is not any fairy tale....
And whereas we may well prefer to think that crimes of the center purely victimize those that aren't cautious, this page-turning number of must-read debts will persuade you another way. America's number one true-crime author, Ann Rule finds how enthusiasts turn into predators, how intercourse and lust can push usual humans to determined acts, and the way investigators and forensics specialists paintings to solve the main entangled crimes of ardour. Extracting behind-the-scenes info, Rule makes those risky relationships totally genuine, and masterfully re-creates the ill-fated chains of occasions in such situations because the ex-Marine and martial arts grasp who seduced susceptible ladies after which destroyed their lives...the killer whose calling card was once a unmarried bloodred rose...the faithless spouse who manipulated and murdered with no conscience...the blind date that set the level for a killer's brutality...and extra. In each case, the sufferer -- younger and blameless or older and skilled -- unknowingly relied on a stranger with the sociopathic ability to conceal their darkish causes, till it used to be too past due to flee an internet of lethal lies, deadly provides, and homicidal ownership.
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Defeat in the face of harassment and persecution. However, the cost in both psychological and economic terms may be prohibitive. In a larger sense, we all lose when victims are frightened away by the acts of hatemongers. To assure our own rights, we must also be able and willing to protect the constitutional rights of all citizens, including those groups we, as individuals, may dislike. Psychologists suggest that rape is a crime of violence; it frequently becomes the means for men who feel belittled and powerless to express their need for control and dominance.
But when substantial numbers of blacks move into a classroom or a neighborhood, whites feel threatened and so reject integration. (7) While black Americans tend to view themselves as victims of white society, white Americans typically no longer acknowledge the persistence of prejudice and dis- 28 Chapter 2 crimination in the lives of blacks. In this way, whites are able to downplay their own responsibility for why blacks tend to have worse jobs, lower incomes, and poorer housing than whites and, at the same time, to justify their own opposition to programs-for example, affirmative actiondesigned to achieve racial parity.
The distorted perception of the reality of life in America can be easily demonstrated by questioning even the most sophisticated individuals about elementary social facts. For example, what percentage of the population of the United States is black? Hispanic? Jewish? According to a recent Gallup national survey, the average American estimates that 30 percent of the population of the United States is black (actually, the figure for those who regard themselves as black or African-American is less than 13 percent); that 25 percent of all Americans are Hispanic (actually, the figure is close to 8 percent); and that 15 percent of our population is Jewish (actually, the figure is only 2 percent maximum).