Inside Broadmoor : The Sunday Times Bestseller

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.Author: Levi, Jonathan,author
Contributors: Levi, Jonathan,author
Binding: paperback
Number Of Pages: 304
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Languages: English,Published,English,Original Language,Englis
Published/Release Date: 8 Aug 2019
Bic Classification: Berkshire, True crime, Prisons
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Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher/Studio/Brand: Bonnier Books Ltd
Author/Director/Artist: Jonathan Levi
Dimension (cm): 197x127x20 mm
Package Dimension (cm): 21x197x130 mm
Item Weight (g): 1050
Package Weight (g): 210