Books
We recommend these books as being particularly useful in understanding various aspects of the criminal mind.
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The Psychopathic Mind: Origins, Dynamics, and Treatment
by J. Reid Meloy. ISBN: 0-87668-311-1, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Snakes in Suits, When Psychopaths Go To Work,
by Paul Babiak and Robert D. Hare, ISBN: 978-0-06-114789-0 (pbk), and 0-06-114789-3 (pbk.), Harper-Collins.
The Psychopathology of Crime, Criminal Behavior as a Clinical Disorder,
by Paul Babiak and Robert D. Hare, ISBN: 978-0-06-114789-0 (pbk), and 0-06-114789-3 (pbk.), Harper-Collins.
The Psychopath: Emotion and the Brain
James Blair, Derek Mitchell, and Karina Blair, Blackwell Publishing
The Sociopath Next Door: The Ruthless Versus the Rest of Us,
Martha Scott, Broadway Books, ISBN:0-7679-1582-8
Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of The Psychopaths Among Us,
Robert D. Hare, The Guiford Press.
Serial Murder
Elliott H. Leyton, ISBN: 1 84014 452 1, Ashgate Publishing Company
The Psychopath: Theory, Research, and Practice
Hugues Herve and John C. Yuille, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.
Serial Murderers and Their Victims
Eric W. Hickey; ISBN: 0-534-54569-6; Wadsworth-Thomson Learning
The Criminalization of Mental Illness: Crisis and Opportunity for the Justice System
Risdon N. Slate & W. Wesley Johnson; Carolina Academic Press
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