Table of Contents
Part I The Twenty-Two Degrees of Evil
Chapter 1 Introduction to the Gradations of Evil Scale 11
Chapter 2 Categories 1-6 21
Chapter 3 Categories 7 and 8 35
Chapter 4 Categories 9-14 47
Chapter 5 Categories 15 and 16 97
Chapter 6 Serial Murder 129
Chapter 7 Category 17 139
Chapter 8 Category 18 151
Chapter 9 Categories 19, 20, and 21 157
Chapter 10 Category 22 179
Chapter 11 An Algorithm to Facilitate Use of the Scale 215
Part II The Era of "New" Evil
Chapter 12 Cultural Changes That Affect the Patterns of Violence in Peacetime 233
Chapter 13 School Shooters 307
Chapter 14 May Justice Triumph Over Law: Contemporary Forms of Evil Not Involving Violence, Including a Commentary on Child Custody Cases and the Courts That Preside Over Them 363
Chapter 15 A New Challenge to Justice: Kids Who Commit Evil 395
Chapter 16 An Alphabet of "New" Evil 403
Final Thoughts 487
Afterword Ann W. Burgess, DNSc., APRN 493
Acknowledgments 501
Notes 507
Index 563
About the Authors 605