THE MONSTER: Exploratory Essays on the Psychology of Violence, Humanity, and the Death Penalty

In The Monster: Exploratory Essays on the Psychology of Violence, Humanity and the Death Penalty, Jeff Hood dismantles the convenient myth that monsters are born fundamentally different from the rest of us. Through a series of profound and unflinching essays, Hood traces the slow birth of monstrosity within ordinary human conditions...trauma, neglect, humiliation, and social failure...while confronting the psychological and theological architecture that allows society to exile the worst amo...