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Inside Broadmoor

Jonathan Levi,Emma French

Author : Jonathan Levi,Emma French
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781788700955

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The Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller 'There is time and then there is Broadmoor time.' Broadmoor. Few place names in the world have such chilling resonance. For over 150 years, it has contained the UK's most violent, dangerous and psychopathic. Since opening as an asylum for the criminally insane in 1863 it has housed the perpetrators of many of the most shocking crimes in history; including Jack the Ripper suspect James Kelly, serial killers Peter Sutcliffe (the Yorkshire Ripper), John Straffen and Kenneth Erskine, armed robber Charles Bronson, gangster Ronnie Kray, and cannibal Peter Bryan. The truth about what goes on behind the Victorian walls of the high security hospital has largely remained a mystery, but now with unprecedented access TV journalist Jonathan Levi and cultural historian Emma French paint a vivid picture of life at Broadmoor, after nearly a decade observing and speaking to those on the inside. Including interviews with the staff, its experts and the patients themselves, Inside Broadmoor is the most comprehensive study of the institution to-date. Published at the dawn of a new era for the hospital, this is the full story of Broadmoor's past, present and future and a dark but enlightening journey into the minds of Britain's most dangerous and how they are treated.

Inside Broadmoor

Jonathan Levi,Emma French

Author : Jonathan Levi,Emma French
Publisher : Blink Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08
Category : Mentally ill offenders
ISBN : 1788700945

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Inside Broadmoor by Jonathan Levi,Emma French Pdf

Broadmoor. Few place names in the world have such chilling resonance. For over 150 years, it has contained the UK's most violent, dangerous and psychopathic. Since opening as an asylum for the criminally insane in 1863 it has housed the perpetrators of many of the most shocking and appalling crimes in history; including Jack the Ripper suspect James Kelly, serial killers Peter Sutcliffe, John Straffen and Kenneth Erskine, murderer and rapist Robert Napper, the teacup poisoner Graham Young, armed robber Charles Bronson, East End gangster Ronnie Kray, child killer Ian Brady, London nail bomber David Copeland and cannibal Peter Bryan. The truth about what goes on behind the Victorian walls of the high-security hospital has largely remained a mystery, but now with unprecedented access investigative journalist Jonathan Levi and cultural historian Emma French reveal all, after spending 12 months observing and speaking to those on the inside. Based on research from Broadmoor's closely guarded archives, interviews with the staff that work there - including nurses, psychiatrists, therapists, security guards - and above all the patients themselves, Inside Broadmoor is the most comprehensive study of the institution to-date. Published on the dawn of a new era as a £242m, state-of-the-art new building opens, this is the full story of Broadmoor's past, present and future and a dark but enlightening journey into the minds of Britain's most evil and how they are treated.

Broadmoor Revealed

Mark Stevens

Author : Mark Stevens
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781783462360

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“A fascinating insight into the country’s most famous asylum for criminals” which reveals Victorian England’s care and management of the mentally ill (Your Family Tree). On 27 May 1863, three coaches pulled up at the gates of a new asylum, built amongst the tall, dense pines of Windsor Forest. Broadmoor’s first patients had arrived. In Broadmoor Revealed, Mark Stevens writes about what life was like for the criminally insane, over one hundred years ago. From fresh research into the Broadmoor archives, Mark has uncovered the lost lives of patients whose mental illnesses led them to become involved in crime. Discover the five women who went on to become mothers in Broadmoor, giving birth to new life when three of them had previously taken it. Find out how several Victorian immigrants ended their hopeful journeys to England in madness and disaster. And follow the numerous escapes, actual and attempted, as the first doctors tried to assert control over the residents. As well as bringing the lives of forgotten patients to light, this thrilling book reveals new perspectives on some of the hospital’s most famous Victorian residents: Edward Oxford, the bar boy who shot at Queen Victoria. Richard Dadd, the brilliant artist and murderer of his own father. William Chester Minor, veteran of the American Civil War who went on to play a key part in the first Oxford English Dictionary. Christiana Edmunds, The Chocolate Cream Poisoner and frustrated lover from Brighton. “Detailed and thoughtful.” —Times Literary Supplement “It challenges preconceptions about mental illness and public reaction to shocking crimes.” —Bracknell Forest Standard

Broadmoor - My Journey Into Hell

Charlie Bronson

Author : Charlie Bronson
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784182915

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Broadmoor - My Journey Into Hell by Charlie Bronson Pdf

THE CLOSEST PLACE ON EARTH THAT YOU WILL GET TO HELL - Charlie Bronson Broadmoor: My Journey Into Hell documents the story of long-term prisoner Charlie Bronson and his five-year stay at Britain's most notorious mental hospital, Broadmoor. His journey has, until now, never been told.In the winter of 1979, aged just twenty-seven, the inmate who would come to be known as 'Charlie Bronson' was considered uncontrollable by the prison system. Certified insane, he was transferred from Parkhurst Prison to the most infamous high-security psychiatric hospital in England, Broadmoor Asylum for the Criminally Insane. There he embarked on a one-man campaign to retain his sanity, and to fight against the brutality of a largely hidden regime that relied on enforced drug control.This outstandingly honest account takes the reader back to those dark days. It is a journey filled with sadness, and yet it is one that includes much laughter and pathos, as well as detailing the camaraderie among fellow patients, who included Ronnie Kray and Frankie Fraser. How Charlie Bronson survived Broadmoor, what he endured and the things he witnessed are, for the very first time, documented in this sad, often chilling, sometimes funny and often moving account of one man's journey into madness and his methods for surviving the UK's most feared and notorious psychiatric hospital. Capturing Bronson's unique voice, it is a roller-coaster ride of madness, pain, laughter and tears. It is also a testament to one man's triumph over adversity.

Savile - The Beast: The Inside Story of the Greatest Scandal in TV History

John MMEhane

Author : John MMEhane
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781782193593

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Savile - The Beast: The Inside Story of the Greatest Scandal in TV History by John MMEhane Pdf

When Sir Jimmy Savile died in October 2011, he was celebrated as a prolific charity fundraiser who dedicated his time to worthy causes. But on October 3rd, 2012, ITV broadcast an investigation into Savile's behavior called Exposure: The Other Side of Jimmy Savile. In it they revealed the true, predatory, and evil man behind the popular TV persona. In the documentary, several women alleged he sexually abused them when they were underage. This sparked a flurry of allegations in the following days and weeks from other alleged victims. So far police have been called to investigate reports of abuse on young children from as long ago as 1959 and anticipate the number of victims to be in the region of 300. But how Savile was allowed to get away with such monstrous crimes for so long has been the subject of immense debate and has led to the investigations of several British institutions. The BBC has been criticized and is hosting an internal investigation into how Savile's behavior was never called into question and how abuse allegations during his long career at the corporation failed to be flagged. An investigation is also underway into the canceling of a Newsnight program in 2011. The Department of Health has also said it will investigate its own conduct in appointing Savile to lead a "taskforce" overseeing the management of high security psychiatric hospital Broadmoor in 1998. Abuse is also alleged to have taken place at Stoke Mandeville Hospital and Leeds General Infirmary, where Savile volunteered. This is a well researched and informative look at how a predatory pedophile was allowed to go unnoticed for so long and to breach a nation's trust is such a cruel and evil way.

Mothers, Criminal Insanity and the Asylum in Victorian England

Alison C. Pedley

Author : Alison C. Pedley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350275348

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Mothers, Criminal Insanity and the Asylum in Victorian England by Alison C. Pedley Pdf

Tracing the experiences of women who were designated insane by judicial processes from 1850 to 1900, this book considers the ideas and purposes of incarceration in three dedicated facilities: Bethlem, Fisherton House and Broadmoor. The majority of these patients had murdered, or attempted to murder, their own children but were not necessarily condemned as incurably evil by medical and legal authorities, nor by general society. Alison C. Pedley explores how insanity gave the Victorians an acceptable explanation for these dreadful crimes, and as a result, how admission to a dedicated asylum was viewed as the safest and most human solution for the 'madwomen' as well as for society as a whole. Mothers, Criminal Insanity and the Asylum in Victorian England considers the experiences, treatments and regimes women underwent in an attempt to redeem and rehabilitate them, and return them to into a patriarchal society. It shows how society's views of the institutions and insanity were not necessarily negative or coloured by fear and revulsion, and highlights the changes in attitudes to female criminal lunacy in the second half of the 19th century. Through extensive and detailed research into the three asylums' archives and in legal, governmental, press and genealogical records, this book sheds new light on the views of the patients themselves, and contributes to the historiography of Victorian criminal lunatic asylums, conceptualising them as places of recovery, rehabilitation and restitution.

Shakespeare Comes to Broadmoor

Murray Cox

Author : Murray Cox
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1853021350

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Between 1989 and 1991 several of Shakespeare's tragedies were performed in the central hall of Broadmoor Hospital. This book sets these important events on record. It offers insights into the impact of such drama, in such a setting, upon actors and audience. It includes interviews with the directors and the actors playing the title roles, as well as a description of the hospital and its community of patients and staff. The performances were given by actors from The Royal Shakespeare Company (Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet), The Royal National Theatre (King Lear) and the Wilde Community Theatre Company, a local amateur drama group (Measure for Measure). An account is given of `workshops' which took place after the performances. And a collage of comment, by actors and audience, is presented as a stream of corporate consciousness. The final section of the book has a more academic timbre, including chapters on performance and projective possibilities, the nature and scope of dramatherapy, and contributions on the place of drama in custodial settings by specialists from a variety of disciplines.

Inside Art

Mary Brown

Author : Mary Brown
Publisher : Waterside Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art therapy
ISBN : 9781872870892

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An explanation of the way in which the study of art can act as a trigger for change in prisoners. This stimulating work is based on conversations with artists - including people in prison or who were once imprisoned. It charts the importance of creative activity as an instrument of personal change. As the author is compelled to say: Individuals can, and do, change. If there is a message in these stories, this is it: we need to listen, understand and act upon it. The physical walls around prisons must not become mental walls keeping us from understanding the worlds of those within. We are all members of the society that builds the prison walls.

Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities

Anne Whitehead

Author : Anne Whitehead
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781474400053

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Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities by Anne Whitehead Pdf

In this landmark Companion, expert contributors from around the world map out the field of the critical medical humanities. This is the first volume to introduce comprehensively the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking across the humanities and social sciences might contribute to, critique and develop medical understanding of the human individually and collectively. The thirty-six newly commissioned chapters range widely within and across disciplinary fields, always alert to the intersections between medicine, as broadly defined, and critical thinking. Each chapter offers suggestions for further reading on the issues raised, and each section concludes with an Afterword, written by a leading critic, outlining future possibilities for cutting-edge work in this area. Topics covered in this volume include: the affective body, biomedicine, blindness, breath, disability, early modern medical practice, fatness, the genome, language, madness, narrative, race, systems biology, performance, the postcolonial, public health, touch, twins, voice and wonder. Together the chapters generate a body of new knowledge and make a decisive intervention into how health, medicine and clinical care might address questions of individual, subjective and embodied experience.

Inside Ashworth

David Pilgrim

Author : David Pilgrim
Publisher : Radcliffe Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Psychiatric hospitals
ISBN : 9781846191060

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Inside Ashworth by David Pilgrim Pdf

High security institutions for mentally disordered offenders are far more complex than regular mental health hospitals or prisons. Ashworth Hospital is no exception. This book raises questions as to why Ashworth resisted the call for change and survived moves towards de-institutionalisation, enquiries, and threats of closure.

The Wicked Boy

Kate Summerscale

Author : Kate Summerscale
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780698135000

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Winner of the 2017 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime Book! From the internationally bestselling author, a deeply researched and atmospheric murder mystery of late Victorian-era London In the summer of 1895, Robert Coombes (age 13) and his brother Nattie (age 12) were seen spending lavishly around the docklands of East London -- for ten days in July, they ate out at coffee houses and took trips to the seaside and the theater. The boys told neighbors they had been left home alone while their mother visited family in Liverpool, but their aunt was suspicious. When she eventually forced the brothers to open the house to her, she found the badly decomposed body of their mother in a bedroom upstairs. Robert and Nattie were arrested for matricide and sent for trial at the Old Bailey. Robert confessed to having stabbed his mother, but his lawyers argued that he was insane. Nattie struck a plea and gave evidence against his brother. The court heard testimony about Robert's severe headaches, his fascination with violent criminals and his passion for 'penny dreadfuls', the pulp fiction of the day. He seemed to feel no remorse for what he had done, and neither the prosecution nor the defense could find a motive for the murder. The judge sentenced the thirteen-year-old to detention in Broadmoor, the most infamous criminal lunatic asylum in the land. Yet Broadmoor turned out to be the beginning of a new life for Robert--one that would have profoundly shocked anyone who thought they understood the Wicked Boy. At a time of great tumult and uncertainty, Robert Coombes's case crystallized contemporary anxieties about the education of the working classes, the dangers of pulp fiction, and evolving theories of criminality, childhood, and insanity. With riveting detail and rich atmosphere, Kate Summerscale recreates this terrible crime and its aftermath, uncovering an extraordinary story of man's capacity to overcome the past.

The Twins - Men of Violence

Kate Kray

Author : Kate Kray
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781782191605

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The Twins - Men of Violence by Kate Kray Pdf

Ron and Reg. Violent men who brought a code of honour to the streets that is still observed today. Their deaths bring to an end the golden era of gangsters whose word was law and whose ferocity maintained the order of the streets...Nobody knew the twins like Kate Kray. Married to Ron before his death, she was granted unique access into the shadowy world they inhabited, and was entrusted with some of the darkest secrets they possessed - secrets that could never be revealed until they were both dead. Now, with the help of thoughts and anecdotes from the people who knew the twins best, Kate has documented once and for all the life of the world's most famous gangsters, and filled in the gaps with the facts that could not be revealed until now. Gangsters, actors, East End faces - everyone who is anyone in the Firm is here, thanks to Kate's unique access and influence. And in this remarkable book, the Krays' chief torturer, the man who was with them on the night they were arrested, has broken his silence for the very first time.

Psychopedia

Blackhous

Author : Blackhous
Publisher : Blackhous Applications
Page : 1493 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Psychopedia by Blackhous Pdf

For those looking to delve into the sick and psychotic minds of serial killers, Psychopedia is an extensive encyclopaedia of serial killers and murders. A popular Apple iTunes app from inception, this title is now available in eBook format. Psychopedia Satisfies A Strange Curiosity - App Advice An insightful and interesting read into the minds and lives of psychopaths (which can become quite addictive) - Appscovery From the Axeman of New Orleans to the Zodiac Killer, this publication presents readers with a compendium of the world's most prolific and notorious serial killers and the most captivating unsolved serial murder cases. The articles are written from an objective factual approach and make no attempt to glorify the murderers. With over 400 profiles spanning hundreds of pages it is a useful guide for students of criminology, sociology, or abnormal psychology. The content is derived from Wikipedia articles and most entries contain extensive details of the killer's early life, crimes, capture, and conviction. Genre screenwriters, novelists, fans of true crime literature and anyone with an interest in the macabre will find plenty of fascinating and grisly details of the world's most infamous and intriguing killers, and their horrendous crimes. All gruesome details can be discovered within its pages.

Strangeways

Neil Samworth

Author : Neil Samworth
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781509883530

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This Sunday Times bestseller is a shocking and at times darkly funny account of life as a prison officer in HMP Manchester. 'Authentic, tough, horrifying in some places and hilarious in others . . . the author’s honesty and decency shine through' – Jonathan Aitken ______________ Neil ‘Sam’ Samworth spent eleven years working as a prison officer in HMP Manchester, aka Strangeways. A tough Yorkshireman with a soft heart, Sam had to deal with it all – gangsters and gangbangers, terrorists and psychopaths, addicts and the mentally ill. Men who should not be locked up and men who should never be let out. He tackles cell fires and self-harmers, and goes head to head with some of the most dangerous men in the country. He describes being attacked by prisoners, and reveals the problems caused by radicalization and the drugs flooding our prisons. As staffing cuts saw Britain’s prison system descend into crisis, the stress of the job – the suicides, the inhumanity of the system, and one assault too many – left Sam suffering from PTSD. Strangeways by Neil Samworth is a raw, searingly honest memoir that is a testament to the men and women of the prison service and the incredibly difficult job we ask them to do. ______________ 'A frequently shocking read' – Daily Express

A Daughter's Inheritance (The Broadmoor Legacy Book #1)

Tracie Peterson,Judith Miller

Author : Tracie Peterson,Judith Miller
Publisher : Bethany House
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781441202208

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A Daughter's Inheritance (The Broadmoor Legacy Book #1) by Tracie Peterson,Judith Miller Pdf

From two bestselling authors comes intrigue and romance set in the opulent Thousand Islands resort area at the turn of the century.

Inside Broadmoor

Inside Broadmoor by Jonathan Levi,Emma French Pdf

Inside Broadmoor by Jonathan Levi,Emma French Pdf

Broadmoor Revealed by Mark Stevens Pdf

Broadmoor - My Journey Into Hell by Charlie Bronson Pdf

Savile - The Beast: The Inside Story of the Greatest Scandal in TV History by John MMEhane Pdf

Mothers, Criminal Insanity and the Asylum in Victorian England by Alison C. Pedley Pdf

Shakespeare Comes to Broadmoor by Murray Cox Pdf

Inside Art by Mary Brown Pdf

Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities by Anne Whitehead Pdf

Inside Ashworth by David Pilgrim Pdf

The Wicked Boy by Kate Summerscale Pdf

The Twins - Men of Violence by Kate Kray Pdf

Psychopedia by Blackhous Pdf

Strangeways by Neil Samworth Pdf

A Daughter's Inheritance (The Broadmoor Legacy Book #1) by Tracie Peterson,Judith Miller Pdf

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