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The Mind of a Murderer

Autor: Richard Taylor

Número de Páginas: 421

'An intricate and brilliantly written psychiatric perspective on the most perplexing of crimes' Kerry Daynes, author of The Dark Side of the Mind 'Beautifully written and very dark' Nimco Ali OBE 'Whodunnit' doesn't matter so much, not to a forensic psychiatrist. We're more interested in the 'why'. In his twenty-six years in the field, Richard Taylor has worked on well over a hundred murder cases, with victims and perpetrators from all walks of life. In this fascinating memoir, Taylor draws on some of the most tragic, horrific and illuminating of these cases - as well as dark secrets from his own family's past - to explore some of the questions he grapples with every day: Why do people kill? Does committing a monstrous act make someone a monster? Could any of us, in the wrong circumstances, become a killer? As Taylor helps us understand what lies inside the minds of those charged with murder - both prisoners he has assessed and patients he has treated - he presents us with the most important challenge of all: how can we even begin to comprehend the darkest of human deeds, and why it is so vital that we try? The Mind of a Murderer is a fascinating exploration into the psyche of...

The Mind of the Murderer

Autor: W. Lindesay Neustatter

Número de Páginas: 223

This study by a British psychologist explores the relationship between mental illness, murder, and the Homicide Act of 1957. In 1957, a new bill went before Parliament addressing the use of capital punishment in cases of murder. It sparked a debate—as relevant today as it was then—about how to prosecute a killer who suffers a mental illness or disability. In order to shed light on the terms of this argument, psychologist W. L. Neustatter published this study of recent homicide cases that touched on the subject. Here, Neustatter examines the minds of murderers known to be schizophrenic or psychopathic, or suffer from such conditions as epilepsy or paranoia. He also looks at a case of murder under hypnosis; a man who made, then retracted, his guilty confession; and a variety of other cases that fall into a troubling grey area of culpability.

The Mind of a Murderer

Autor: Katherine Ramsland

Número de Páginas: 233

This unique history of the last 100 years of criminal psychology shares insights about infamous murderers from the psychiatrists and other trained psychological professionals who analyzed and treated them. The Mind of a Murderer: Privileged Access to the Demons That Drive Extreme Violence presents a series of cases in which a psychiatrist, psychologist, or counselor gained privileged access to a mass or serial murderer, going beyond the typical mental assessment to learn more about criminal behavior. Through their work, readers are granted a unique view of criminology and a better understanding of the criminal mind. The book opens with the earliest professional observations of criminals in the late 19th century and goes on to explore the rudimentary behavioral profiling and case analysis of the early 20th century. It shows how, by the 1960s and 1970s, behavioral professionals recognized the need for intense study of extreme offenders and got close to the likes of Richard Speck, John Wayne Gacy, and Ted Bundy to gain a fuller picture of their psychological development. Finally, readers learn how today's behavioral professionals rely on neurobiological correlates to assess...

Dark Impulses: Inside the Mind of a Murderer

Autor: Pasquale De Marco

Número de Páginas: 161

In the realm of human darkness, where the sanctity of life is violated, lies the chilling phenomenon of murder. This book delves into the depths of this heinous crime, exploring the labyrinthine mind of the murderer, the intricate investigation process, and the profound impact on victims, families, and society. Through a comprehensive examination of various homicide types, from premeditated killings to crimes of passion, we uncover the underlying factors that propel individuals to commit this ultimate act of violence. We delve into the psychology of murderers, examining the role of mental illness, substance abuse, and social and economic conditions in shaping their motivations and behaviors. The intricate relationship between murderer and victim is also explored, shedding light on the dynamics of power, control, and vulnerability that often play a pivotal role in these tragic events. The impact of murder extends far beyond the immediate loss of life, leaving lasting scars on families, communities, and society as a whole. The book delves into the intricate investigation process, unveiling the meticulous steps taken by law enforcement and forensic experts to gather evidence, analyze ...

The Mind of the Murderer

Autor: Manfred Schanfarber Guttmacher

Número de Páginas: 244

Murder On The Mind

Autor: L.l. Bartlett

Número de Páginas: 289

Jeff Resnick hardly knew his well-heeled half-brother. But after suffering a fractured skull in a vicious mugging, he reluctantly accepts the fact that he has a long and brutal recovery to face—and his closest of kin can provide him with the time and place to do it. Now, Jeff is haunted by unexplained visions of a heinous crime—a banker, stalked, killed, and eviscerated like a ten-point buck. When Matt Sumner’s murder is discovered, a still-recovering Jeff realizes this was what he had seen. Jeff must not only convince himself of his new-found psychic ability, but also his skeptical brother Richard Alpert. Since Sumner was Richard’s banker, both brothers have a stake in finding out what happened. With Richard’s reluctant help, Jeff’s investigation leads him to Sumner’s belligerent family and hard-nosed business associates, none of whom want him snooping around. When Jeff discovers a second victim, he knows he must relentlessly chase his quarry even if it means risking his brother’s life

The Anatomy Murders

Autor: Lisa Rosner

Número de Páginas: 337

Up the close and down the stair, Up and down with Burke and Hare. Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief, Knox the man who buys the beef. —anonymous children's song On Halloween night 1828, in the West Port district of Edinburgh, Scotland, a woman sometimes known as Madgy Docherty was last seen in the company of William Burke and William Hare. Days later, police discovered her remains in the surgery of the prominent anatomist Dr. Robert Knox. Docherty was the final victim of the most atrocious murder spree of the century, outflanking even Jack the Ripper's. Together with their accomplices, Burke and Hare would be accused of killing sixteen people over the course of twelve months in order to sell the corpses as "subjects" for dissection. The ensuing criminal investigation into the "Anatomy Murders" raised troubling questions about the common practices by which medical men obtained cadavers, the lives of the poor in Edinburgh's back alleys, and the ability of the police to protect the public from cold-blooded murder. Famous among true crime aficionados, Burke and Hare were the first serial killers to capture media attention, yet The Anatomy Murders is the first book to situate...

Global Killers: A Journey into the Minds and Lives of Serial Murderers

Autor: Ronda Mejia

Número de Páginas: 226

The chilling world of serial killers has long captivated and horrified society. "Global Killers: A Journey into the Minds and Lives of Serial Murderers" offers a comprehensive exploration of these complex individuals, delving into their psychology, motivations, and the societal factors that shape their actions. This book provides an unflinching look at the darkest corners of human behavior, offering readers a profound understanding of the intricate dynamics that drive serial killers. Through meticulous research and compelling narratives, this book unravels the twisted minds of some of the most notorious serial killers from around the globe. Each chapter presents a detailed examination of different killers, highlighting their unique backgrounds, methods, and the cultural contexts that influenced their paths. The narrative is both gripping and informative, weaving together case studies, expert analyses, and real-life accounts to paint a thorough picture of the serial killer phenomenon. One of the key strengths of this book lies in its ability to demystify the often misunderstood world of serial killers. It goes beyond sensational headlines to provide a nuanced perspective, exploring ...

Criminal Law

Autor: Catherine Elliott , Frances Quinn

Número de Páginas: 460

Elliott and Quinn's Criminal Law 7th edition is an established, reliable and popular textbook, covering English criminal law comprehensively, but concisely. This lively, clear and accurate guide to the law will help you to understand the subject thoroughly.

Complete Criminal Law

Autor: Janet Loveless

Número de Páginas: 785

Complete Criminal Law: Text, Cases, & Materials offers a student-centered approach to the criminal law syllabus. Clear and concise explanation of general legal principles is combined with fully integrated extracts from the leading cases and a wide range of academic materials. The extracts have been carefully selected to ensure that they are detailed enough to illustrate the point of law under consideration, but succinct enough not to disrupt the flow of the text or to intimidate the student new to the study of criminal law. The book has been carefully structured with the needs of the student firmly in mind. Each chapter begins with basic principles, and gradually covers all the core topics a student needs to know. Unique to this textbook is the extent to which the law is placed firmly in its social context. This will reinforce understanding by relating essential aspects of the law to vital social and moral problems. Throughout the text a range of learning features are employed to consolidate understanding and encourage application: thinking points containing reflective and short answer questions, definition boxes, summary points, diagrams, and problem/essay questions (with...

Literary Executions

Autor: John Cyril Barton

Número de Páginas: 571

"Rich with historical detail . . . examines the figure and theme of the death penalty in imaginative literature from Cooper to Dreiser." —Gregg Crane, Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Michigan Drawing from legal and extralegal discourse but focusing on imaginative literature, Literary Executions examines representations of, responses to, and arguments for and against the death penalty in the United States over the long nineteenth century. John Cyril Barton creates a generative dialogue between artistic relics and legal history. He looks to novels, short stories, poems, and creative nonfiction as well as legislative reports, trial transcripts, legal documents, newspaper and journal articles, treatises, and popular books (like The Record of Crimes, A Defence of Capital Punishment, and The Gallows, the Prison, and the Poor House), all of which were part of the debate over the death penalty. Barton focuses on several canonical figures—James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lydia Maria Child, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and Theodore Dreiser—and offers new readings of their work in light of the death penalty controversy. Barton also gives close...

Smith and Hogan Criminal Law: Text and Materials

Autor: David Ormerod , John Cyril Smith , Karl Laird

Número de Páginas: 985

'Criminal Law' is written with the needs of the student foremost in mind to provide, more than ever, as modern and as comprehensive an exposition of the criminal law as he or she could possibly require.

The Penal Code and Code of Criminal Procedure of the State of Texas

Autor: Texas

Número de Páginas: 898

Criminal Law Directions

Autor: Nicola Monaghan

Número de Páginas: 525

Do your students understand the difference between murder and manslaughter? Are they confused by the concept of mens rea and accessorial liability? Criminal Law Directions tackles these and many more questions, introducing students to this exciting area of law. The Directions series has been written with students in mind. The ideal guide as they approach the subject for the first time, this book will help them: DT Gain a complete understanding of the topic: just the right amount of detail conveyed clearly DT Understand the law in context: with scene-setting introductions and highlighted case extracts, the practical importance of the law becomes clear DT Identify when and how to critically evaluate the law: they'll be introduced to the key areas of debate and given the confidence to question the law DT Deepen and test knowledge: visually engaging learning and self-testing features aid understanding and help students tackle assessments with confidence DT Elevate their learning: with the ground-work in place you can aspire to take learning to the next level, with direction provided on how to go further An extensive selection of online resources accompany this text, including: DT...

The Lancet

Número de Páginas: 1706

An Uncanny Revenge, or Nick Carter and the Mind Murderer

Autor: Nick Carter

Número de Páginas: 141

Excerpt: "The members of Nick Carter's household all happened to meet at the breakfast table that morning—a rather unusual circumstance. The famous New York detective sat at the head of the table. Ranged about it were Chick Carter, his leading assistant; Patsy Garvan, and the latter's young wife, Adelina, and Ida Jones, Nick's beautiful woman assistant. It was the latter who held the attention of her companions at that moment. She was a little late, and had just seated herself. Her flushed cheeks and sparkling eyes gave no hint that she had reached the house—they all shared the detective's hospitable roof—a little after three o'clock that morning. "You good people certainly missed a sensation last night," she declared. "It was the strangest thing—and one of the most pitiable I ever beheld!" Nick, who had been glancing at his favorite newspaper, looked up. "What do you mean?" he asked. It was Ida's turn to show surprise. "Is it possible you don't know, any of you?" she demanded, looking around the table. "Haven't you read of Helga Lund's breakdown, or whatever it was?" Helga Lund, the great Swedish actress, who was electrifying New York that season in a powerful play, "The...

Official Report of the Trial of L. D. F. for the Murder of A. P. Crittenden, Etc

Autor: Laura D. Fair

Número de Páginas: 366

Softness. A Novel

Autor: Softness

Número de Páginas: 336

Looking for Laura

Autor: David Wilson

Número de Páginas: 227

Looks at the way in which crime is packaged and presented for consumption by a news-hungry public and the pressure exerted on experts by the media.

Revised Penal Code and Code of Criminal Procedure

Autor: Texas

Número de Páginas: 702

The Texas Criminal Reports

Autor: Texas. Court Of Criminal Appeals

Número de Páginas: 796

Principles of Criminal Law

Autor: Seymour Frederick Harris

Número de Páginas: 520

Serial Murder

Autor: Ronald M. Holmes , Stephen T. Holmes

Número de Páginas: 289

Provides a solid review of the subject, with an accessible, incisive presentation, including photos and features unique to this edition.

Commentaries on the Criminal Law

Autor: Bishop

Número de Páginas: 868

Albany Law Journal

Número de Páginas: 556

A History of the Criminal Law of England

Autor: Sir James Fitzjames Stephen

Número de Páginas: 518

Weekly Notes of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the County Courts of Philadelphia, and the United States District and Circuit Courts for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Número de Páginas: 630

The South Western Reporter

Número de Páginas: 1252

Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Texas, and Court of Appeals of Kentucky; Aug./Dec. 1886-May/Aug. 1892, Court of Appeals of Texas; Aug. 1892/Feb. 1893-Jan./Feb. 1928, Courts of Civil and Criminal Appeals of Texas; Apr./June 1896-Aug./Nov. 1907, Court of Appeals of Indian Territory; May/June 1927-Jan./Feb. 1928, Courts of Appeals of Missouri and Commission of Appeals of Texas.

The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health

Número de Páginas: 840

The Tattoo Murder Case

Autor: Akimitsu Takagi

Número de Páginas: 315

Kinue Nomura survived World War II only to be murdered in Tokyo, her severed limbs discovered in a room locked from the inside. Gone is the part of her that bore one of the most beautiful full-body tattoos ever rendered. Kenzo Matsushita, a young doctor who was first to discover the crime scene, feels compelled to assist his detective brother, who is in charge of the case. But Kenzo has a secret: he was Kinue’s lover, and soon his involvement in the investigation becomes as twisted and complex as the writhing snakes that once adorned Kinue’s torso. The Tattoo Murder Case was originally published in 1948; this is the first English translation.

Pennsylvania State Reports

Autor: Pennsylvania. Supreme Court

Número de Páginas: 720

"Containing cases decided by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania." (varies)

The American Reports

Autor: Isaac Grant Thompsom , Irving Browne

Número de Páginas: 902

The American Psychological Journal

Autor: Joseph Parrish

Número de Páginas: 590

Criminal Law Magazine

Número de Páginas: 918

The Missouri Criminal Code

Autor: D. W. Shackleford

Número de Páginas: 670

Roscoe's Digest of the Law of Evidence in Criminal Cases

Autor: Henry Roscoe , Horace Smith

Número de Páginas: 996

The Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology

Número de Páginas: 318

The Criminal Law Magazine and Reporter

Autor: Stewart Rapalje , Robert Linn Lawrence , Gustav Adolf Endlich , James Shrewsbury Erwin

Número de Páginas: 1126

Containing original articles on timely topics, full reports of important cases, and a quarterly digest of all recent criminal cases, American and English.

American Criminal Reports

Autor: John Gardner Hawley , John Gibbons , John Fickey Geeting , Henry C. Geeting

Número de Páginas: 786

The Doctor Dissected

Autor: Caroline Mccracken-flesher

Número de Páginas: 287

In 1828, Robert Knox was Edinburgh's charismatic anatomist - but eager medical students needed corpses to practice on, and Knox was supplied by the murderers Burke and Hare. The Doctor Dissected shows how this local crime became a trauma that echoes down the years as fact and fiction and into modern media - particularly in Scotland. Because Knox refused to speak, and national author Walter Scott would not speak for him, Scottish newspapers filled the silence with speculation. Worse, for a society that worried about the medical uncertainty of death, and whether the dead might arise, Knox's subjects loomed larger the longer their story remained untold. Victorian attempts to end the story only gave it new energy: evangelical writers could not account for the doctor; Robert Louis Stevenson turned him into Jekyll and Hyde. Melodramas tried to demonize Knox, but by the 1930s his scandal had extended to implicate a complicit public in James Bridie's plays. The 1970s could then read villains as victims of society - until Alasdair Gray gave contentious voice to actual victims in Poor Things. Today, Burke and Hare seem harmless, populating detective stories for children; they drive a...