Analyzing Criminal Minds: Forensic Investigative Science for the 21st Century Contributor(s): Jacobs, Don (Author) |
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ISBN: 031339699X ISBN-13: 9780313396991 Publisher: Praeger OUR PRICE: $74.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Forensic Psychology - Law | Forensic Science - Social Science | Criminology |
Dewey: 363.25 |
LCCN: 2010051242 |
Series: Brain, Behavior, and Evolution |
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.2" W x 9.4" (1.50 lbs) 336 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Analyzing Criminal Minds: Forensic Investigative Science for the 21st Century explores new and emerging approaches to a perennially fascinating subject. Author Don Jacobs looks at 10 tools and products that have revolutionized the discipline, explaining how modern criminal mind analysis incorporates advances in criminal and forensic psychology, forensic neuropsychology, brain imaging, adolescent neurobiology, criminal profiling, and brain fingerprinting, as well as research into the paralimbic brain system and the impact of the DANE brain upon adolescent and young adult behavior. Twenty-three characteristics shared by jailed violent criminals are analyzed and considered in terms of neuropsychology and developmental psychology. The book also probes psychopathy in its various degrees, in children, adolescents, and adults, and explains a controversial but increasingly accepted theory that psychopathy is a natural outgrowth of evolution, describing how this natural psychopathy can become a condition typified by violent, sadistic, and irreversible personality disorder. |