

Broadmoor
Criminology professor David Wilson draws on extensive interviews and a wealth of archival materials to shed light on Britain’s most notorious, malevolent evildoers and the place many of them once called home: Broadmoor Hospital in Berkshire. This high-security psychiatric facility, shrouded in mystery and controversy, has housed some of the nation’s most dangerously disturbed criminal offenders.
Criminology professor David Wilson draws on extensive interviews and a wealth of archival materials to shed light on Britain’s most notorious, malevolent evildoers and the place many of them once called home: Broadmoor Hospital in Berkshire. This high-security psychiatric facility, shrouded in mystery and controversy, has housed some of the nation’s most dangerously disturbed criminal offenders.
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