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

By: Garbarino, James [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: 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.

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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