Criminal Psychology: Sexual Predators in the Age of Neuroscience / Edition 2

Criminal Psychology: Sexual Predators in the Age of Neuroscience / Edition 2

by Don E Jacobs, Don E
ISBN-10:
0757525873
ISBN-13:
9780757525872
Pub. Date:
01/05/2006
Publisher:
Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
Criminal Psychology: Sexual Predators in the Age of Neuroscience / Edition 2

Criminal Psychology: Sexual Predators in the Age of Neuroscience / Edition 2

by Don E Jacobs, Don E
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Overview

This text introduces students to "neurocriminalistics" (Jacobs 2005), the New School neuroscience of the violent criminal mind interpreted by high resolution brain scans and by brain fingerprinting and other state of the art neuropsych paradigms.

Criminal Psychology: Sexual Predators in the Age of Neuroscience is an academic text for undergraduate students wishing to understand "the criminal mind" as analyzed by the "yardsticks" of neuroscience.

  • Each chapter has 2 predator profiles (bios of news-worthy criminals), allowing the student to discover insights not usually covered in news stories
  • Integrates an extensive glossary, aiding in technical word knowledge

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780757525872
Publisher: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
Publication date: 01/05/2006
Edition description: 2
Pages: 348
Product dimensions: 8.40(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

Preface: The Living Nightmare of Netherworld

Foreword: A Word from the Author/Acknowledgement and Organization Matters

Chapter 1: Predatory Psychopath: Violent Predators & Serial Crime

Predator Profile 1-1: UNSUB "Jack the Ripper"

Predator Profile 1-2: William Heirens "The Lipstick Killer"

Chapter 2: The "Narrow Down" Principle: Psychological Assessment & Criminal Profiling

Predator Profile 2-1: Richard Trenton Chase "The Vampire of Sacramento"

Predator Profile 2-2: Edward Theodore "Ed" Gein "The Plainfield Ghoul," "The Mad Butcher of Plainfield"

Chapter 3: Paradigms of Criminality

Predator Profile 3-1: Harvey Murray Glatman "The Lonely Hearts Killer"

Predator Profile 3-2: Albert De Salvo "The Boston Strangler"

Chapter 4: Modus Vivendi - Sexualized Aspects of Serial Crime: From Fantasy to Aftermath

Predator Profile 4-1: Richard Ramirez "The Night Stalker"

Predator Profile 4-2: Theodore "Ted" Bundy

CREATURE FEATURES: Five Faces of Toxic Parenting

Karla Faye Tucker

Susan Smith

Darlie Routier

Mary Kay Letourneau

Scott Peterson

Chapter 5: The Rapacious Mind: Neurochemistry & Psychopathy

Predator Profile 5-1: Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer "The Milwaukee Cannibal"

Predator Profile 5-2: Arthur Shawcross "The Rochester Night Stalker"

Chapter 6: Toxic, Antisocial Parenting and Adolescent Psychopathy

Predator Profile 6-1: John Wayne Gacy, Jr. "The Killer Clown"

Predator Profile 6-2: Richard David Berkowitz "The Son of Sam"

Chapter 7: The Psychology of Perversion: Adolescent "Rambo" Killers & Female Serial Killers

Predator Profile 7-1: Sketches of Females Who Kill

(1) "Black Widow"

Margie Barfield Dianne Lumbrera

(2) "Angel of Death"

Genene Jones

(3) Sexual Predator

Aileen Wournos

(4) Revenge Killer

Martha Wise

(5) Profit/Crime Killer

Madame Popova

Anna Marie Hahn

(6) Question of Sanity - Insane Killer

Bobbie Sue Terrell

Andrea Yates

(7) Unexplained Motive - Neighborhood Killers

Christine Fallin Audrey Hilley

(8) Team Killers

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow

Caril Ann Fugate and Charles Starkweather

Debra Brown and Alton Colman

(9) Female Killer Teams

Gyndolyn Graham and Catherine May Wood

(10) Unsolved Killers - UNSUB (Unidentified Subject)

UNSUB "The Butcher of Kingsbury Run"

UNSUB "Angel of Death"

(11) Family Team of Killers - Female Serial Killers

The McCrary Family


Predator Profile 7-2: Charles Manson and the Manson "Family"

Chapter 8: The Mark of the Beast

Predator Profile 8-1: Aileen "Lee" Carol Wournos

Predator Profile 8-2: Joel David Rifkin

Epilogue: Positive Parenting - Five Nurturing Skills

Word Scholar Glossary

References

Index

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