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Book SynopsisOffers accounts of how killers travel a path that leads from childhood innocence to lethal violence in adolescence or adulthood. This book 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.
Trade Review"This book should become the definitive text on the subject." - STARRED REVIEW Library Journal "Garbarino's knowledge, compassion, insight, and unmatched experience provide us with an amazing opportunity to learn the path that lead children to violence... Please - buy this book for yourself and for every single person you know. I did." -- Josh Eudowe eA Risk Management Group "Garbarino is a master storyteller and a graceful, elegant writer who brings the complex science to life in dramatically rendered personal histories. It is a narrative style that makes for clear science and riveting reading. Be prepared to change your mind. I did." -- Dan Clayton St. Lawrence University Alumni Magazine "Jim is a master storyteller and a graceful, elegant writer who brings complex science to life in dramatically rendered personal histories. It is a narrative style that makes for clear science and riveting reading. Be prepared to change your mind. I did." -- Daniel Clayton St. Lawrence University Alumni Magazine
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Becoming an Expert Witness Part I Getting Close to Killers 1 The Concept of Choice in the Criminal Justice System 2 Keeping Killers inside Our Circle of Caring 3 Moral Damage: Growing Up with a War Zone Mentality 4 Emotional Damage: The Consequences of Unresolved Trauma Part II The American Way of Killing 5 "If You're Old Enough to Do the Crime, You're Old Enough to Do the Time" 6 Tales of Rehabilitation, Transformation, and Redemption 7 Guns Don't Kill People--People with Guns Kill People 8 Making Sense of the Senseless: Understanding and Preventing Killing in America Appendix: Zagar's Model References Index
