Analyzing Criminal Minds
Forensic Investigative Science for the 21st Century
1st Edition
Published on 19. April 2011
336 pages
978-0-313-39700-4 (ISBN)
Description
An insightful book presenting cutting-edge information on the newest, most remarkable forensic science and methods used for understanding the criminal mind.
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.
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.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Illustrations
18 bw illus
ISBN-13
978-0-313-39700-4 (9780313397004)
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04/2011
Praeger Publishers Inc
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Person
Don Jacobs is department chair of behavioral science at Weatherford College, Weatherford, TX.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Series Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Part I. Forensic Investigative Science
- Introduction to Part I: Scientists Who Seek to Capture Criminal Minds
- Chapter 1. Becoming a Forensic Investigative Scientist
- Chapter 2. New Tools from Neuroscience
- Chapter 3. Criminal Minds Capture
- Autobiography of Rachel's Life: Determination-Life in Desperation
- Part II. The Brainmarks Paradigm of Adaptive Neuropsychopathy
- Introduction to Part II: Headquarters for Calculating Minds and Deceptive Practices
- Chapter 4. Deceptive Practices
- Chapter 5. Calculating Minds
- Chapter 6. Res Ipsa Loquitur
- Chapter 7. Trapdoor Spiders
- Autobiography of Sabrina's Life: Invincible
- Part III. Order Becoming Disorder
- Introduction to Part III: Being Whatever He Needs to Be
- Chapter 8. Toxic Recipes
- Chapter 9. DANE Brainmarks
- Chapter 10. Order Becoming Disorder
- Autobiography of Lauren's Life: Tortured by Tears
- Part IV. Truly, Honestly, Deceptively
- Chapter 11. Graduate Seminar
- Chapter 12. On Cloud Nine
- Autobiography of Cassidy's Life: Life Is Bigger Than One Person
- Bibliography
- Index
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