House of Mystery Gary Brucato & Ann Burgess - Evil (Season 11, Episode 40)
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House of Mystery

Gary Brucato & Ann Burgess - Evil (Season 11, Episode 40)

Podcast Episode | Talk-Show

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 ...See moreDr. 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 1960s, 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 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 think the effects of new technologies and sociological, artistic, and historical factors since the 1960s may have set the stage for "the new evil." Further, they explain how personality, psychosis, and other qualities can meaningfully contribute to particular crimes, making for many different motives. Relying on their extensive clinical experience and examination of writings and artwork by infamous serial killers, these experts offer many insights into the logic that drives horrible criminal behavior, and they discuss the hope that in the future, such violence may be prevented. See less

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Name	Known for
Mike Browne Self - Host Self - Host See fewer	The Wicker Man (2006)
Gary Brucato Self - Guest Self - Guest See fewer	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace (2017)
Ann Burgess Self - Guest Self - Guest See fewer	Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer (2024)
Alan R. Warren Self - Host Self - Host See fewer	Voices of True Crime Podcast (2020)