{"product_id":"the-monster-jeff-hood-9798235985735","title":"The Monster: Exploratory Essays on the Psychology of Violence, Humanity, and the Death Penalty","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Monster: Exploratory Essays on the Psychology of Violence, Humanity and the Death Penalty\u003c\/em\u003e, Jeff Hood dismantles the convenient myth that monsters are born fundamentally different from the rest of us. Through a series of profound and unflinching essays, Hood traces the slow birth of monstrosity within ordinary human conditions...trauma, neglect, humiliation, and social failure...while confronting the psychological and theological architecture that allows society to exile the worst among us. Writing with rare authority from inside the reality of death row, Hood challenges readers to reconsider the very category of \"monster\" and its central role in sustaining capital punishment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese essays move beyond simplistic notions of evil to explore the shared humanity between victim and perpetrator, the interior spiritual life of the condemned, the persistence of the image of God even in those who have caused irreparable harm and the possibility of redemption without diminishing accountability. With intellectual depth and unflinching honesty, \u003cem\u003eThe Monster\u003c\/em\u003e invites readers into an uncomfortable but necessary confrontation...that understanding violence requires looking not only at the condemned, but at the systems, stories and fears we use to distance ourselves from them. This is a book for anyone willing to examine the moral cost of execution and the deeper question of what it truly means to be human.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeff Hood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798235985735\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Complicit Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/29\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 76\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.18lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.18d","brand":"Jeff Hood","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852941963519,"sku":"9798235985735","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-monster-jeff-hood-9798235985735","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}