Short Synopsis
A chilling follow-up to the popular true crime book The Anatomy of Evil.

Full Synopsis
A chilling follow-up to the popular true crime book The Anatomy of Evil.

Revisiting Dr. Michael Stone's groundbreaking 22–level Gradations of Evil Scale, a hierarchy of evil behavior first introduced in the book The Anatomy of Evil, Stone and Dr. Gary Brucato, a fellow violence and serious psychopathology expert, here provide even more detail, using dozens of cases to exemplify the categories along the continuum. The New Evil also presents compelling evidence that, since a cultural tipping–point in the 1960's, certain types of violent crime have emerged that in earlier decades never or very rarely occurred.

The authors examine the biological and psychiatric factors behind serial killing, serial rape, torture, mass and spree murders, and other severe forms of violence. They persuasively argue that, in at least some cases, a collapse of moral faculties contributes to the commission of such heinous crimes, such that "evil" should be considered not only a valid area of inquiry, but, in our current cultural climate, an imperative one. They consider the effects of new technologies and sociological, cultural, and historical factors since the 1960's that may have set the stage for "the new evil."

"Fascinating, disturbing . . . Budding criminologsits will find this a useful resource for study and contemplation, while true crime enthusiasts will be riveted by the assiduous prodding into the criminal mind." -Publishers Weekly

"Drs. Michael Stone and Gary Brucato have given us not just something we want to read but also something we absolutely must read if we're ever going to understand the mind-set of these killers." -Kevin M. Sullivan, author of The Bundy Murders: A Comprehensive Hsitory