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

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"Listening to Killers 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 child...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Garbarino, James (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Murderers > United States > Psychology.
Murder > United States > Psychological aspects.
Trials (Murder) > United States.
Evidence, Expert > United States.
Meurtriers > États-Unis > Psychologie.
Meurtre > États-Unis > Aspect psychologique.
Procès (Meurtre) > États-Unis.
Expertises > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
PSYCHOLOGY > Forensic Psychology.
Evidence, Expert
Murder > Psychological aspects
Murderers > Psychology
Trials (Murder)
United States
anthropological and biological research.
anthropologist.
biography.
emotional damage.
empathy for murderers.
how does someone become a serial killer.
moral damage.
murderer interviews.
path of a killer.
psychological witness.
psychologist.
psychology.
serial killer pathology.
serial killers.
social toxicity.
trauma.
unresolved trauma.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : becoming an expert witness
  • Making the choice to kill
  • Keeping killers inside our circle of caring
  • Growing up with moral damage
  • The emotional damage of unresolved trauma
  • "If you're old enough to do the crime, you're old enough to do the time"
  • Rehabilitation, transformation and redemption
  • Guns don't kill people, people with guns kill people
  • Making sense of the senseless : understanding and preventing killing in America.

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