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Saturday, July 31, 2021

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His Career

The Tragic Murder

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Crime fiction, which we might also call ?homicide fiction,? has been popular since the 19th century, with the US and my native Britain dominating the genre. The trend continued even as violent crime rates generally declined and intentionally taking a life became an ever more unusual way for people to break the criminal law. In recent years, alongside invented mysteries and thrillers, we've seen the rise and rise of the true crime genre on streaming services and in audio podcasts. It appears everyone wants to know more about the minds of murderers.

As it happens, this is my day job; I've spent the last 30 years working with violent offenders as a forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist.  I've recently joined forces with dramatist Eileen Horne to describe my experience in The Devil You Know: Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion (Scribner). Our book is an invitation to come with me into sessions where I meet with people considered the worst among us. With 11 stories about men and women who have either killed or committed other serious crimes like stalking and sex offending, we try to fill the blank space after the Netflix or podcast credits roll, when the judge has passed sentence and the secure doors lock shut. What happens next? Can they be helped to change?

 

I've been an avid reader of crime fiction throughout my life, which sometimes surprises people who can't help but wonder why I won't leave all that at the office. I tell them that the best detective stories focus on restoring order to chaos, which I find relaxing and reassuring. Over the years, I've noticed that my patients have an interest in crime fiction too, although mainly in the form of dramas they watch together on TV.  I remember one therapy group for homicide perpetrators particularly enjoying the American series Dexter, featuring a forensic professional who is secretly a serial killer. I am more ambivalent about viewing TV and films in the crime genre because they often dwell on the suffering of victims in ways I find gratuitous, and I get impatient when perpetrators are depicted as obviously weird, remarkable or preternaturally clever.  As better minds than mine have defined it, evil is banal, even ordinary.

I grew up with the British greats of crime fiction who made an art form out of the ordinary, the masters and mistresses of the humdrum homicide.  I have my mother to thank for fueling this at an early age; it was our weekly treat to walk down to the Barrington Street library to borrow books, stopping off to get some oysters from the fish and chip shop on the way home. It must have been she who recommended that I try reading Agatha Christie, whose works were among the first I chose. Of her characters, I've always liked Miss Marple best because she embodies the importance of being a good observer of human behavior.

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