Listening to killers : lessons learned from my twenty years as a psychological expert witness in murder cases /

Garbarino, James,

Listening to killers : lessons learned from my twenty years as a psychological expert witness in murder cases / James Garbarino. - 328 pages

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This title offers an inside look at twenty years' worth of murder files from Dr James Garbarino, a leading expert psychological witness who listens to killers so that he can testify in court. The author offers detailed accounts of how killers travel a path that leads from childhood innocence to lethal violence in adolescence or adulthood. He places the emotional and moral damage of each individual killer within a larger scientific framework of social, psychological, anthropological, and biological research on human development.

Specialized.

9780520282872 (pbk.) : £16.95


Murderers--Psychology.--United States
Murder--Psychological aspects.--United States
Trials (Murder)--United States.
Evidence, Expert--United States.
Crime.
Crime.

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