Evil comes in many guises. Joseph Stalin said that "Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem." He also said; "One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic." Stalin; like his entire ilk, accepted that there is no more guilt for multiple killings than for just one. Evil the encyclopedia tells us is morally reprehensible: sinful or wicked. Innocence on the other hand is defined as not being corrupted or tainted with evil or unpleasant emotion; sinless; pure. From these definitions we would then assume that the two; Evil and Innocence, could not cohabit in the same host. Evil Innocence will cause you to question that assertion. Murder is the personification of evil. There is no excuse, there is no way that murder is committed out of innocence. "Evil Innocence" will challenge your understanding of innocence as retired Detective Inspector Len Potter has to reconcile his past assumption that Henry Papford was responsible for the serial killing of six young women.

"The potential interest in this book could be measured by the fact that for the past 3 years the online website for the Maine Sex Offender Registry has had 8 million hits each year. The Evil and the Innocent presents a real life and true inside look at the tragedies and suffering of the victims of sexual assault. Those who committed these crimes against the innocent are described and discussed in detail revealing the sadistic fantasies that swirl in the heads of child sex offenders and how these fantasies manifest themselves into reality with total disregard for the pain and suffering inflicted on the victims - the children. These real and actual cases expose heartbreaking and sometimes nauseating facts of sexual assaults and molestations. As difficult as it may be for the reader, these documented details are openly displayed in the book and will stay with the reader for a long time. Seeing the dead eyes and helpless faces of little children who suffered the onslaught of cruel and inhumane acts are necessary ingredients if change is to occur. The book may startle and sicken you because of the cold, hard, facts that until now have been hidden from you. Why? to protect you. Real life suffering must be brought to the light of day so the collective you demands that it stop - no matter the cost.'--Wheelers.co.nz.

John Thiel insists that some people who suffer are truly innocent.

"'Innocent Acts of Evil' is the true story of how a young brother and his older sister commit the brutal murder of their parents under the instructions of the sister's boyfriend, who convinces the siblings that he is the Son of God and persuades them to join his three-person home-grown cult of the Twelve Knights of God's will. It is a story about cultism, brainwwashing and hijacked good intentions. The title of the book suggests that it is often what we trust, believe and love that can hurt us most. The story reflects the interracial tensions that contribute to these strained relationships. The boyfriend is an Indian, who takes advantage of the children's racial guilt and exploits it for his own material gain. He turns them against their 'racist' parents, using biblical rhetoric and emotional manipulation, and persuades them that their parents must be punished by God's will."--Back cover.

On a global platform we are witnessing the increased visibility of the people we call children and teenagers as political activists. Meanwhile, across the contemporary performance landscape, children are participating as performers and collaborators in ways that resonate with this figure of the child activist. Beyond Innocence: Children in Performance proposes that performance has the ability to offer alternatives to hegemonic perceptions of the child as innocent, in need of protection, and apolitical. Through an in-depth analysis of selected performances shown in the UK within the past decade, alongside newly gathered documentation on children’s participation in professional performance in their own words, this book considers how performance might offer more capacious representations of and encounters with children beyond the nostalgic and protective adult gaze elicited within mainstream contexts. Motivated by recent collaborations with children on stage that reimagine the figure of the child, the book offers a new approach to both reading age in performance and also doing research with children rather than on or about them. By redressing the current imbalance between the way that we read children and adults’ bodies in performance and taking seriously children’s cultures and experiences, Beyond Innocence asks what strategies contemporary performance has to offer both children and adults in order to foster shared spaces for social and political change. As such, the book develops an approach to analysing performance that not only recognises children as makers of meaning but also as historically, politically, and culturally situated subjects and bodies with lived experiences that far exceed the familiar narratives of innocence and inexperience that children often have to bear.

With the media bringing us constant tales of terrorism and violence, questions regarding the nature of evil are highly topical. Luke Russell explores the philosophical thinking and psychological evidence behind evil, alongside portrayals of fictional villains, considering why people are evil, and how it goes beyond the normal realms of what is bad.

Nawal El Saadawi's books are known for their powerful denunciation of patriarchy in its many forms: social, political, and religious. Set in an insane asylum, The Innocence of the Devil is a complex and chilling novel that recasts the relationships of God and Satan, of good and evil. Intertwining the lives of two young women as they discover their sexual and emotional powers, Saadawi weaves a dreamlike narrative that reveals how the patriarchal structures of Christianity and Islam are strikingly similar: physical violation of women is not simply a social or political phenomenon, it is a religious one as well. While more measured in tone than Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, Saadawi's novel is similar in its linguistic, literary, and philosophical richness. Evoking a world of pain and survival that may be unfamiliar to many readers, it speaks in a universal voice that reaches across cultures and is the author's most potent weapon.