Analyzing Criminal Minds: Forensic Investigative Science for the 21st Century (Brain, Behavior, and Evolution)

336 Pages·2011·5.06 MB·English

by  Don Jacobs

ANALYZING CRIMINAL MINDS
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ANALYZING
CRIMINAL MINDS
Forensic Investigative Science
for the 21st Century
Don Jacobs
Brain, Behavior, and Evolution
Patrick McNamara, Series Editor
Copyright 2011 by Don Jacobs
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Jacobs, Don (Don E.)
Analyzing criminal minds : forensic investigative science for the 21st century /
Don Jacobs.
p. cm. — (Brain, behavior, and evolution)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-313-39699-1 (hardcopy : alk. paper) —
ISBN 978-0-313-39700-4 (ebook)
1. Criminal psychology. 2. Forensic sciences. I. Title. II. Series.
HV6080.J33 2011
363.25—dc22 2010051242
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Contents
Series Foreword ix
Acknowledgments xi
Part I. Forensic Investigative Science 1
Introduction to Part I: Scientists Who Seek to Capture
Criminal Minds 3
Chapter 1. Becoming a Forensic Investigative Scientist 7
Chapter 2. New Tools from Neuroscience 33
Chapter 3. Criminal Minds Capture 51
Autobiography of Rachel ’ s Life: Determination—Life in
Desperation 79
Part II. The Brainmarks Paradigm of Adaptive
Neuropsychopathy 85
Introduction to Part II: Headquarters for Calculating Minds
and Deceptive Practices 87
Chapter 4. Deceptive Practices 89
Chapter 5. Calculating Minds 133
Chapter 6. Res Ipsa Loquitur 149
Chapter 7. Trapdoor Spiders 159
Autobiography of Sabrina ’ s Life: Invincible 175
viii Contents
Part III. Order Becoming Disorder 181
Introduction to Part III: Being Whatever He Needs to Be 183
Chapter 8. Toxic Recipes 185
Chapter 9. DANE Brainmarks 205
Chapter 10. Order Becoming Disorder 223
Autobiography of Lauren ’ s Life: Tortured by Tears 229
Part IV. Truly, Honestly, Deceptively 235
Chapter 11. Graduate Seminar 237
Chapter 12. On Cloud Nine 283
Autobiography of Cassidy ’ s Life: Life Is Bigger Than One Person 293
Bibliography 299
Index 305
Series Foreword
Beginning in the 1990s, behavioral scientists—that is, people who study
mind, brain, and behavior—began to take the theory of evolution seriously.
They began to borrow techniques developed by the evolutionary biologists
and apply them to problems in mind, brain, and behavior. Now, of
course, virtually all behavioral scientists up to that time had claimed to
endorse evolutionary theory, but few used it to study the problems they
were interested in. All that changed in the 1990s. Since that pivotal decade,
breakthroughs in the behavioral and brain sciences have been constant,
rapid, and unremitting. The purpose of the Brain, Behavior, and Evolution
series of titles published by ABC-CLIO is to bring these new breakthroughs
in the behavioral sciences to the attention of the general public.
In the past decade, some of these scientifi c breakthroughs have come
to inform the clinical and biomedical disciplines. That means that people
suffering from all kinds of diseases and disorders, particularly brain and
behavioral disorders, will benefi t from these new therapies. That is exciting
news indeed, and the general public needs to learn about these break-
through fi ndings and treatments. A whole new fi eld called evolutionary
medicine has begun to transform the way medicine is practiced and has
led to new treatments and new approaches to diseases, like the dementias,
sleep disorders, psychiatric diseases, and developmental disorders that
seemed intractable to previous efforts. The series of books in the Brain,
Behavior, and Evolution series seeks both to contribute to this new evolu-
tionary approach to brain and behavior and to bring the insights emerging
from the new evolutionary approaches to psychology, medicine, and anthro-
pology to the general public.
The Brain, Behavior, and Evolution series was inspired by and brought to
fruition with the help of Debora Carvalko at ABC-CLIO. The series editor,