THE BLACK CAT SERIES

CRIME AND THE INSANITY OF PSYCHOPATHS

von José Ingenieros, Rafael Salillas

626 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

What if the madness is real? What if it is an act?A crime has been committed. Now comes another mystery: whether the accused is suffering, deceiving, or doing both. How can an observer distinguish illness from performance when punishment may depend on the answer?The Black Cat Series: Crime and the Insanity of Psychopaths, Volume II brings together two historical works by Rafael Salillas and José Ingenieros, translated from Spanish into English.Hampa: Picaresque AnthropologyRafael Salillas examines the language, customs, and psychology of Spain's world of rogues, thieves, and swindlers. Drawing on picaresque literature and social observation, he traces connections between poverty, survival, deception, and the environments in which criminal conduct develops.Simulation of InsanityJosé Ingenieros turns to the struggle between the simulator and the expert. Through clinical observations and medico-legal arguments, he examines feigned symptoms, concealed mental illness, the limits of expert judgment, and the difficulty of distinguishing genuine disorder from calculated deception.For readers whose interest in psychopaths, cannibals, and extreme criminal behavior leads beyond sensational headlines, this volume offers a different kind of encounter: the historical arguments behind the labels. Its scope reaches from everyday fraud to discussions of extraordinary violence, without reducing either work to a catalogue of notorious offenders.Read these authors in sustained argument: following their cases, testing their explanations, and confronting the assumptions of their age. The volume brings together criminology, psychiatry, criminal anthropology, and the psychology of deception for readers interested in how crime and mental disturbance were once understood.These are historical texts, preserving the terminology and viewpoints of their periods. They are not a guide to modern diagnosis or treatment.English translation and editorial presentation by Stanislav Pavlovski.The crime is only the beginning. The harder question is what to believe.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798175955416
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published
• Übersetzung: Stanislav Pavlovski