Black & Blue (Lord & Lady Hetheridge Book 4) - Plot & Excerpts
It was always good to take a glance ahead of time, to judge the suspect's demeanor from afar.In days of yore, only two-way glass had separated the detainee from note-taking detectives. That had led to a certain amount of theatrics from those awaiting interrogation: tears, impassioned oratories, even an unnerving, unblinking gaze directed toward the glass. And the sort of suspects who exhibited this latter behavior tended to share key traits. They were male, unusually tall, physically strong, with a history of violence and a concurrent history of substance abuse. As new breakthroughs in genetics arrived, the conclusion was XYY syndrome, a genetic abnormality that resulted in reckless, easily angered, mentally subnormal "supermales."But since the nineteenth century, all who attempted to identify wrongdoers by type instead of actions had failed. Cesare Lombroso, the man who in 1911 had posited that all criminals shared a weak chin, low slanting forehead, and abnormal body hair, was soon discredited.
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