Forensic Psychology category: 378 books
The Zebra Murders
A Season of Killing, Racial Madness and Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
On October 20, 1973, in San Francisco, a white couple strolling down Telegraph Hill was set upon and butchered by four young black men. Thus began a reign of terror that lasted six months and left fifteen whites dead and the entire city in a state of panic. The perpetrators wanted nothing less than...
The Serial Killers, Pure Evil
The serial killers, #1
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2015
A book about some of the world's most famous serial killers and the crimes that they committed. In this book you will read about Richard Ramirez, Ed Gein,John Wayne Gacy, Andrei Chikatilo,Gary Ridgway and Charles Starkweather and the inhuman acts that they committed. Their crimes forever changed the...
Murder City
The Untold Story of Canada's Serial Killer Capital, 1959-1984
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Like the mythic cities of Gotham or Gomorrah, London, Ontario was for many years an unrivalled breeding ground of depravity and villainy, the difference being that its monsters were all too real.
In its coming to inherit the unwanted distinction of being the serial killer capital of not just...
Sex Offender Treatment
A Case Study Approach to Issues and Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Sex Offender Treatment is an innovative case study-based guide to the treatment of sexual offenders, offering direct access to the insights and experience of experts in the field. The book describes case formulations, assessment processes, and treatment undertaken with specific sexual offender types.
Takes...
by Evan Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
It is interesting to examine the main theories that revolve around the figure of guilt of the offender, taking into consideration that the act has the same characteristics as the instance of the ego and those inner drives and more regulations, which cannot be considered as a "implementation", but a proper mode of "doing".
by Brian Forschner
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
An “impressively well-crafted” true crime account of the murder of five girls in the early days of police investigations (Midwest Book Review).
Cold Serial tells the true stories of five girls who were raped and murdered in the Dayton, Ohio, area between 1900 and 1909. They were victims...
by Jane Gilgun
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2012
For more than 25 years, I have done research on perpetrators of violence and on persons who have risks for violence but lived law-abiding, pro-social lives. I talked to them in prisons and treatment centers. In this narrative, I describe my gradual understandings of the meanings of violence to perpetrators...
Serial Killers
Shocking, Gripping True Crime Stories of the Most Evil Murderers
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
The Terrifying Story of the Most Monstrous Serial Killers through History.
Serial Killers are the most notorious and disturbing of all criminals, representing the very darkest side of humanity. Yet they endlessy fascinate and continue to capture the public's attention with their strange charisma...
The Criminal Personality
The Change Process
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1995
This is the second of a three volume landmark study of the criminal mind. This book describes an intensive therapeutic approach designed to completely change the criminals way of thinking. The authors reject traditional treatment approaches as reinforcing of the criminals sense of being a victim of...
The Criminal Personality
A Profile for Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
The Criminal Personality presents a detailed description of criminal thinking and action patterns and convincingly argues that these patterns cannot be explained by sociologic or psychologic explanations alone.
A Jason Aronson Book
by Larry L. Franklin, Rakesh Chandra, MD
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
The penetrating look at the violence that swept prisons in the 1980 s and 1990 s and the organizational structure mirroring the Mafia that erupted in them. The inmates had to make a choice between joining a gang that offered protection, friendships, financial rewards, access to drugs and other contraband...
Why We Love Serial Killers
The Curious Appeal of the World's Most Savage Murderers
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
A chilling investigation into the deviant mind, “so powerful and provocative, you cannot put it down” (Rita Cosby, New York Times–bestselling author).
We know the names: Ted Bundy, Ed Gein, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, among them—serial killers transformed by the media into ghoulish...
RAMPAGE SPREE KILLERS
Spree Killers and School Shootings
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Rampage Spree Killers depicts realistic violence with vile and malicious killings that took place in schools, restaurants and other public places and is at times graphic.
Two major motives fuel the Spree Killer's final, hate-filled act: revenge against the world and a desire to show that he...
Jack the Ripper's Secret Confession
The Hidden Testimony of Britain's First Serial Killer
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
With several million copies sold in the last fifty years, My Secret Life, first published by Grove Press in the 1960s, is one of the most famous pornographic works in literary history. What readers of this long-banned and troubling book of violent sexual fantasies failed to realize is that it is also...