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Garbarino, James. author.
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Murderers -- United States -- Psychology.
Murder -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
Trials (Murder) -- United States.
Evidence, Expert -- United States.
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Listening to killers...
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Listening to killers : lessons learned from my twenty years as a psychological expert witness in murder cases /
James
Garbarino
.
by
Garbarino
,
James
. author.
Subjects
Murderers -- United States -- Psychology.
Murder -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
Trials (Murder) -- United States.
Evidence, Expert -- United States.
Publisher Info:
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Description:
296 pages ; 23 cm
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unmediated
volume
ISBN:
9780520282865 (cloth)
0520282868 (cloth)
9780520282872 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520282876 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520958746 (ebook)
0520958748 (ebook)
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.
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"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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