Sexual Forensics: Lust, Passion, and Psychopathic Killers

by Don Jacobs, Ashleigh Portales

Overview

This book taps neuroscience and neuropsychology to provide hard facts about brain conditions and the behavior that emerges from powerful brain chemistry—a fascinating read for adolescents, parents, and teachers alike.

Sexual Forensics: Lust, Passion, and Psychopathic Killers provides a fascinating examination of "neurotruths" that are relevant and applicable to 21st-century parenting and social relationships, and explains workplace "brainmarks" that enable predictive solutions to practical problems.

Author Don Jacobs, a researcher who has been studying psychopathy for over 25 years, describes how psychopathy has evolved as a brain condition, documenting how the vast majority of the spectrum represents normalcy, and only 20 to 30 percent of humankind characterizes corruptors or violent, pathological individuals. The book examines examples of individuals who have demonstrated significant achievement, influence, wealth, or corruptive behavior in differently abled profiles, and provides student autobiographies that enable rare scientific insights into the adolescent state of mind.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798216144076
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	04/21/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	184
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	7 - 17 Years

About the Author

Don Jacobs is professor and department chair of behavioral science for psychology and forensic science at Weatherford College, Weatherford, TX.

Ashleigh Portales is a crime scene investigator in Decatur, TX, serves as adjunct professor in forensic and behavioral sciences at Weatherford College, and is a certified police officer in the state of Texas.
Don Jacobs is department chair of behavioral science at Weatherford College, Weatherford, TX.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. Sexual Forensics
Chapter 1. Degrees of Pedigrees
Chapter 2. Screaming Red Flags
Chapter 3. Sexual Forensics and the Modern Neurospectrum
Chapter 4. The Psychopath Alarm and Why It Fails
Part II. The Story Behind the Story
Chapter 5. Passionate Brainmarks
Chapter 6. Modulating Brainmarks
Chapter 7. Neuroglia, the Paralimbic System, and the "Gut"
Chapter 8. Two Puberties and What Men Know without Knowing
Part III. Giving It a Go with a Psycho
Chapter 9. Je ne Sais Quoi
Chapter 10. Evolution of the Prefrontal Cortex
Chapter 11. The Rise of Neurotruth
Epilogue: Corruptive Psychopaths
Bibliography
Index
A smooth-talking, handsome, and charming male can effectively disguise harming behaviors of pathology, perversion, and violence, thus in the end, blindsiding targeted prey. . . . In navigating life's relationship intricacies we learn performances can be nothing more than "auditions" from ancient survival scripts. So, in modern neuropsychology, we must be prepared to address behavior as a clue. By reading even a few pages in a book we can gain valuable insights saving ourselves and loved ones the experience of a living nightmare.
Don Jacobs 2013