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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459790503321

Autore

Garbarino James

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-520-28287-6

0-520-95874-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (307 p.)

Disciplina

364.152/3019

Soggetti

Murderers - United States - Psychology

Murder - United States - Psychological aspects

Trials (Murder) - United States

Evidence, Expert - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Becoming an Expert Witness -- 1. The Concept of Choice in the Criminal Justice System -- 2. Keeping Killers inside Our Circle of Caring -- 3. Moral Damage: Growing Up with a War Zone Mentality -- 4. Emotional Damage: The Consequences of Unresolved Trauma -- 5. "If You're Old Enough to Do the Crime, You're Old Enough to Do the Time" -- 6. Tales of Rehabilitation, Transformation, and Redemption -- 7. Guns Don't Kill People-People with Guns Kill People -- 8. Making Sense of the Senseless: Understanding and Preventing Killing in America -- Appendix: Zagar's Model -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 childhood innocence to lethal violence in adolescence or adulthood. He places the emotional and moral damage of each individual killer within a larger scientific framework of social, psychological, anthropological,



and biological research on human development. By linking individual cases to broad social and cultural issues and illustrating the social toxicity and unresolved trauma that drive some people to kill, Dr. Garbarino highlights the humanity we share with killers and the role of understanding and empathy in breaking the cycle of violence.