Minds on trial great cases in law and psychology
This text details 20 court cases that turned, at least in part, on the expertise of forensic psychologists and psychiatrists. It also includes cases involved in psychological issues such as insanity, criminal profiling, capital punishment, competence to stand trial, infanticide, false confessions an...
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| Language: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press
2006.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Oxford scholarship online.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798129106719 |
Table of Contents:
- George Metesky : profiling the "Mad Bomber"
- Lee Harvey Oswald : the formative years of an assassin
- Patricia Hearst : uncommon victim or common criminal?
- The Guilford Four : "you did it, so why not confess?"
- Prosenjit Poddar and Tatiana Tarasoff : where the public peril begins
- Dan White : the myth of the twinkie defense
- Cameron Hooker : judging the experts?
- John W. Hinckley, Jr. : shooting for the stars
- Judas Priest : a message in the music
- John Demjanjuk : is he "Ivan the Terrible?"
- The U.S.S. Iowa : equivocating on death
- Jeffery Dahmer : serial murder, necrophilia, and cannibalism
- Woody Allen and Mia Farrow : a swing of King Solomon's sword
- Gary and Holly Ramona : recovered memories or false allegations?
- Colin Ferguson : a fool for a client?
- Ralph Tortorici : a question of competence
- Mike Tyson : predicting violence of a professional fighter
- Daryl Atkins : mental retardation, decency, and the death penalty
- Andrea Yates : an American tragedy
- Michael Kantaras : what makes a man a man?
