In the classic suspense thriller film "The Silence of the Lambs", the male protagonist Hannibal is a highly intelligent psychiatrist and a bloodthirsty dangerous element. On the one hand, he is calm, intelligent and elegant, and on the other hand, he is cruel and ruthless and cold-blooded. This person has two diametrically opposed faces, A and B.
So in real life, is there such a person as Hannibal? Yes! But we are hard to see in general. Because they, like Hannibal, live in special places.
Professor David Wilson, founder of the Centre for Applied Criminology at Birmingham City University in the United Kingdom, is an expert in the study of these people. He entered the field from about 40 years ago, after graduating from university, and has worked in three prisons dedicated to felons, and many notorious killers. Close contact with prisoners.
The book "B-Side Life: Entering the Hidden World of Heavy Criminals" (hereinafter referred to as "B-Side Life") is his memoir, recording his process and harvest of exploring this special group of people.
"B-Side Life" provides a psychological exploration of the behavior of these incredible people from a professional perspective, so as to make people realize the importance of preventing and punishing crime, and arouse people's attention to adolescent growth and mental health.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" >, a loving and encouraging childhood leads to a strong sense of security</h1>
Professor Wilson, who was just starting out, like many fledgling young people, was curious about these special groups of people and wondered what they were committing. What was going on in the heart when sin was sinful. It was clear that the veterans treated him like the scene in "The Silence of the Lambs" when Clarice first met Hannibal, full of disdain and arrogance.
But soon he opened a hole in a young man. This young man is special and his family is in good condition. This and other heavy. Criminals generally live in different ways. But Professor Wilson found what they had in common, which was the shadow of childhood.
Young people have a very poor relationship with their families when they are young, mainly because they are often compared with good older brothers. After a big fight with his parents, he ran away from home and became a bad boy on the street, committing a serious crime of Sharen at the age of 15.
Professor Wilson wondered what the heart of a once-carefree teenager was like at that moment. After many efforts, the young man finally told the truth. He said he knew the consequences at that moment, but he was very calm. Because since then, he has no longer had to be compared with his brother by his parents.
The reason he didn't want to compare was that he believed he was good. If you work hard, you will definitely surpass your brother. That would make parents sad.
This reason surprised Professor Wilson. At the same time, it was also found that the young man was not incurable. He managed to reach out to the young man's parents and repair the parent-child relationship that had been interrupted for many years. With the acceptance and support of their families, young people regain their freedom and have achieved great success in life and career.
After a lot of analysis, Professor Wilson believes that the problems encountered by people in childhood can have a huge impact on his entire life. Children need stable, loving and encouraging relationships in their lives so that they can feel safe and have a positive and optimistic understanding of the world.
If childhood is problematic, then as an adult, people will have a strange and irresistible desire to repeat the difficulties they experienced as children. Whether as a victim or as a perpetrator.
So Professor Wilson made a mistake with every new contact in his long career. People will start from childhood first. In "The Silence of the Lambs", Hannibal wants to know Clarice, also from childhood, and speculates that she had suffered misfortune in childhood.
Stills from The Silence of the Lambs
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" > second, the dilemma of turning back to the shore</h1>
But Professor Wilson also points out that not all commit. Anyone can turn back to the shore. Because some people have personality disorders, they are psychopaths.
In Professor Wilson's view, these people have unique ways of behaving. They speak with a slippery tongue, full of lies, and love to manipulate others, and they seem very arrogant and cunning when interacting with people. He is also very sensational, impulsive and reckless, sometimes even to the point of stupidity. But they themselves are unaware of this.
At the same time, because of the flaws in their emotional responses, they have no guilt about their wrong behavior, and they can't really understand why others think their behavior is wrong. The world of these people is completely different from the world of ordinary people.
Professor Wilson mentions a heavy in the book. Criminals are such people. He had read the book The Silence of the Lambs and was very fond of Dr. Hannibal and used him as an example. In order to make himself more vicious, he also shouted that these books were very responsible for why he had become like this.
This raises another question, whether to let the public know about these weights. Criminals and the crimes they committed. Yes. Professor Wilson said he could not say more details of the case because it would increase the danger to people with ill intentions.
At the same time he also pointed out that it is necessary to prevent certain groups from putting these heavy in various ways. Criminals use it to form a form of entertainment. For example, adapting it into a film and television drama, or doing a lot of interpretation in the media. Because these things are both exciting and sensational, talking about them means traffic means resources. But the negative impact is immeasurable.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" > third, it is better to plan ahead than to remedy it afterwards</h1>
Finally, Professor Wilson's analysis of the development of detection methods shows that he is still very confident in the future.
In the past, Americans have greatly advocated psychological portrait technology, that is, relying on logical reasoning to paint a portrait of a suspect from clues, so as to lock in the target. Just like in "The Silence of the Lambs", Clarice made a portrait of "Buffalo Bill": white man, middle-aged man, with independent house, etc.
Although in novels or film and television dramas, this speculation is often reliable, Professor Wilson found in practice that this kind of portrait that relies solely on "imagination" is still unreliable. It will be replaced by more and more modern technologies like DNA testing. Therefore, the phrase "Skynet is restored without leakage" will be more convincing.
In any case, for human society, it is better to plan ahead than to make up for the dead. Maintaining family happiness and giving children a healthy environment for growth, maintaining physical and mental health is the primary prerequisite.