Book review: An art and not solely a science. PROFILING VIOLENT CRIMES: AN INVESTIGATIVE TOOL. R. M. Holmes & S. T. Holmes. Sage, London, 1996. No. of pages: 208. ISBN 0-8039-7238-5. Price £16.50 (Paperback).
✍ Scribed by Julian Boon
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 69 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0888-4080
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
unfailingly pleasant to deal with and eager for reassurance, despite being subjected to a neverending battery of psychological tests.
The reader also learns something of the author's own life, as he interweaves H.M.'s story with the story of his own re¯ections on memory and memories of his wife Ð who, like H.M., had her life drastically altered by a surgeon's presumptuous error. Although this facet of the book is well written and even moving at times, these frequent digressions are somewhat distracting, when what the reader really wants (at least this reader) was to learn more about H.M. This book would be quite suitable as a supplemental text in an undergraduate cognitive psychology or memory course, where it would enable H.M. to reach Ð and teach Ð still more people. More advanced students and instructors are likely to ®nd the passages on memory functioning rudimentary, but that detracts only slightly from the author's fascinating and very human portrait of a man whose life has been more instructive than he can ever know. Hilts would doubtless agree with Ogden and Corkin's (1991) assessment of H.M.