Listening to killers : lessons learned from my twenty years as a psychological expert witness in murder cases / James Garbarino.
Material type: TextPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2015Description: 328 pagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780520282872 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Murderers -- United States -- Psychology | Murder -- United States -- Psychological aspects | Trials (Murder) -- United States | Evidence, Expert -- United States | Crime | CrimeDDC classification: 364.1'523'019 Summary: 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.Item type | Current library | Home library | Shelving location | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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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.
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