This book feels like it's written with the senior high school student in mind, with the aim of correcting some pop cultural ideas about what the job of a criminal psychologist entails, based on some currently popular crime shows. I'd recommend it to a high school student thinking of a career in this field, who will soon learn that there are very few (if any) 'criminal psychologists' -- it's sporadic contract work using the expertise of psychologists making money in related areas.

I listened to the audio book version. The narrator's reading style really emphasises how basic the prose is, and I would even say he condescends. He's got this weird way of taking pauses which reminds me of Stevie from Malcolm in the middle.

And I'm always interested to hear about other people's jobs, which is unfortunate given most people don't want to talk about them.

The final chapter is about sexual offenders. This is the chapter which made me think more people should read this book. There's this idea that sex offenders are a certain type of nasty person who we'd recognise if we met at a party, but the research describes a character more likely to be living among us, as they are of course, and it should be more widely known that sex offenders are able to empathise with most people in their lives but turn it off for the people they have chosen to abuse. It reminds me of something I heard about sociopaths lately: that even sociopaths are able to turn empathy on if they choose to.