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Base instincts : what makes killers kill? / Jonathan H. Pincus.

By: Publication details: New York : W.W. Norton, 2001.Edition: 1st edDescription: 239 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 039305022X
  • 9780393050226
  • 0393323234
  • 9780393323238
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.15/23/019 21
LOC classification:
  • HV6515 .P557 2001
NLM classification:
  • HV 6080 P647 2001
Other classification:
  • 71.65
Contents:
The theory of violence as taught by Louis Culpepper -- Murder on the school bus -- Murder by abuse -- Genes, geography, and the generation of violence -- Wrath: repression and release--the effects of frontal lobotomy -- Immaturity, mania, mistreatment, and miscreancy -- Toxins and turmoil -- Nature, nurture, and neurology -- Anatomy of evil -- Did you ever hear a baby cry? -- Hitler and hatred -- Prevention and treatment -- Appendix: tools of diagnosis: history, physical examination, and the role of tests.
Summary: Investigates the family backgrounds and medical history of serial killers Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy, and concludes that serial killers may be a product of a genetic predisposition to violence and an abusive environment.
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Books Academic Resource Center at Levitt General Stacks (LOWER Level) HV 6515 .P557 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 29269

Includes bibliographical references.

The theory of violence as taught by Louis Culpepper -- Murder on the school bus -- Murder by abuse -- Genes, geography, and the generation of violence -- Wrath: repression and release--the effects of frontal lobotomy -- Immaturity, mania, mistreatment, and miscreancy -- Toxins and turmoil -- Nature, nurture, and neurology -- Anatomy of evil -- Did you ever hear a baby cry? -- Hitler and hatred -- Prevention and treatment -- Appendix: tools of diagnosis: history, physical examination, and the role of tests.

Investigates the family backgrounds and medical history of serial killers Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy, and concludes that serial killers may be a product of a genetic predisposition to violence and an abusive environment.

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