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The Mad, the Bad, and the Innocent - The Criminal Mind on Trial - Tales of a Forensic Psychologist (Hardcover, New)
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The Mad, the Bad, and the Innocent - The Criminal Mind on Trial - Tales of a Forensic Psychologist (Hardcover, New)
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Barbara Kirwin is the New York area's premier forensic psychologist
-- the expert prosecutors turn to when a defendant claims insanity.
Over the last twenty years, her work has introduced her to a
terrifying lineup of murderers, rapists, sociopaths, and paranoids
-- including, mast notoriously, serial killer Joel Rifkin, who
confessed to slaying seventeen prostitutes.Now Kirwin looks back
over her most celebrated cases -- and delivers a no-holds-barred
critique of recent insanity defense abuses. Drawing on her own
personal experiences, Kirwin explains how a psychologist can
determine whether an accused criminal is insane or not -- from the
distinctive body odor of a schizophrenic to the slips that reveal a
faker. Then, zeroing in on cases such as those of the Menendez
brothers, Jeffrey Dahmer, and Joel Rifkin, she shows how
unscrupulous defense attorneys and overzealous prosecutors have
perverted the true purpose of the insanity defense, sending violent
criminals to mental hospitals and putting bona fide schizophrenics
in jail.Taking us deep inside the twisted minds of madmen and bad
guys, The Mad, the Bad, and the Innocent is required reading for
crime buffs and anyone outraged by the misuse of the insanity
defense.
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