Foreword
BY LUST BETRAYED!
Alan Taylor had had a hard time of it, after the untimely death of his wife and an almost-lost battle with the bottle. Now, he just about had it made again, with a good job. He was a perfect pigeon for a murder frame! Howard Jones, in Crime in a Changing Society, points out: "The amount of anxiety evoked by crime, and especially violent crime, is such that one is tempted to feel that its roots lie deep. We are, of course, bound to be impressed by striking examples of criminal behavior in our society, but why are such very strong feelings aroused in us? ... Most psychologists who study crime nowadays look for its causes in mental factors which lie outside the individual's control, and no one did more to encourage this than Sigmund Freud ... Everything we do, he contended, has a discoverable cause in the shape of a personal conflict or anxiety. Crime too has its origin in our personal emotional lives. And it is by our early family experience that our personalities have been shaped"