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Author Garbarino, James, author.

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

Publication Info. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : becoming an expert witness -- Making the choice to kill -- Keeping killers inside our circle of caring -- Growing up with moral damage -- The emotional damage of unresolved trauma -- "If you're old enough to do the crime, you're old enough to do the time" -- Rehabilitation, transformation and redemption -- Guns don't kill people, people with guns kill people -- Making sense of the senseless : understanding and preventing killing in America.
Summary "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"--Provided by publisher.
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Subject Murderers -- United States -- Psychology.
Murder -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
Trials (Murder) -- United States.
Evidence, Expert -- United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Forensic Psychology.
Evidence, Expert. (OCoLC)fst00917231
Murder -- Psychological aspects. (OCoLC)fst01029794
Murderers -- Psychology. (OCoLC)fst01029826
Trials (Murder) (OCoLC)fst01156368
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Other Form: Print version: Garbarino, James. Listening to killers 9780520282865 (DLC) 2014032693 (OCoLC)884315766
ISBN 9780520958746 (electronic book)
0520958748 (electronic book)
9780520282865
0520282868
9780520282872
0520282876
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