Bibliograph

Women who love men who kill, 35 true stories of prison passion, Sheila Isenberg

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Women who love men who kill, 35 true stories of prison passion, Sheila Isenberg

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Women who love men who kill

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Sheila Isenberg

Sub title

35 true stories of prison passion

Summary

In 1991, Sheila Isenberg's classic study Women Who Love Men Who Kill asked the provocative question, "Why do women fall in love with convicted murderers?" Now, Isenberg returns to the same question in the age of smart phones, social media, mass shootings, and modern prison dating. The result is a compelling psychological study of prison passion in the new millennium. Isenberg conducts extensive interviews with women, who seek relationships with convicted killers, as well as conversations with psychiatrists, social workers, and prison officials. She shows that many of these women, know exactly what they are getting into, yet they are willing to sacrifice everything for the sake of a love without hope, promise, or consummation. This edition of Women Who Love Men Who Kill includes gripping new case studies and an absorbing look at how the digital age is revolutionizing this phenomenon. Meet the young women writing "fan fiction" featuring America's most sadistic murderers, the killer serving consecutive life sentences for strangling his wife and smothering his toddler daughters- and the women who visit him in prison, the high-powered journalist, who fell in love and risked it all for "Pharma Bro" Martin Shkreli, and many other women absorbed in online and real-life dalliances with their killer men

Target audience

adult

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