Criminal Psychology: Sexual Predators in the Age of Neuroscience
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2006
Pages: 348
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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
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
Don Jacobs is an innovator in higher education. In 2004, he and colleagues at Weatherford College cofounded the first forensic science department and degree plan in Texas college history, a program that has attracted national attention and prestigious university partners.
Don Jacobs is a popular seminar presenter, author of several books from Kendall Hunt Publishing, including: Psychology of Deception: Analysis of Sexually Psychopathic Serial Crime (2009), Brainmarks: Headquarters for Things That Go Bump in the Night, A Lab Manual (2009), The New Word Scholar: A Vocabulary Tutorial (2013), Adjustment in the 21st Century: Adaptive Brainmarks & Survival of the Fittest (2016), & Analyzing Criminal Minds: Forensic Investigative Science for the 21st Century (2011), and Praeger & Sexual Forensics: Lust, Passion, and Psychopathic Killers with Ashleigh Portales (2014) Praeger.