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Author Colin Wilson opens this illuminating psychological discussion with the development of the 1977 Behavioral Science Unit, which was set up in order to answer the many questions surrounding serial killers: How does someone become a serial killer? How do they choose their victims, and why do they not feel remorse? How are they caught? Wilson interviews FBI Special Agent Robert Ressler, coiner of the term "serial killer" and one of the pioneers...

Describes how forensic psychologists use their skills in legal cases, includes history and current research, and provides information about education and career training.

Psychologist Alan Gregory's life begins to unravel when one of his female patients is found in an apparent suicide and the local paper begins printing accusations from an unnamed source of sexual impropriety between the woman and Dr. Gregory. The quest for the truth that rapidly intensifies when more of his patients die untimely deaths, and he suspects not only that the deaths are related but that another one of his patients may be somehow involved....

Psychologist and sleuth Alan Gregory must use all of his understanding of the human mind to protect his wife and her friend from a biotechnology genius who is willing to kill in order to obtain a high-tech prize potentially worth millions.

Psychologist Alan Gregory is struggling to deal with both a newly adopted son and a shaky, though generally improving, marriage. But then his ex-wife, Merideth, reappears, seeking help locating the missing surrogate mother of her soon-to-be-born child, and Alan is pulled into a mystery that reaches back years--with ramifications that are disturbingly current.

"In eleven vivid narratives based on decades of providing therapy to people in prisons and secure hospitals, an internationally renowned forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist demonstrates the remarkable human capacity for radical empathy, change, and redemption. What drives someone to commit an act of terrible violence? Drawing from her thirty years’ experience in working with people who have committed serious offenses, Dr. Gwen Adshead provides...

Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd and his cold case team tackle their cases with a new colleague, Sarah Cavendish, a brilliant ex-counter-terrorism officer who has fallen from grace. Will she help or hinder the team's searches for a killer with a twisted mind; the perpetrators of crippling state childcare; and the murderer of a veteran-turned-peace activist, rumored to have been killed by the government. Will Boyd find justice for sixteen dismembered...

The prosecutor who convicted murderess Jodi Arias for the disturbing killing of Travis Alexander, speaks for the first time about the shocking investigation and sensational trial that captivated the nation.

"Wrapping up a normal day at the office, criminal psychologist Kieran Finnegan is accosted by a desperate woman who shoves an infant into her arms and then flees, only to be murdered minutes later on a busy Manhattan street ... Kieran can't stop thinking about the child and the victim, so her boyfriend, Craig Frasier, does what any good special agent boyfriend would do--he gets the FBI involved. And asks Kieran to keep out of it ... Kieran wont sit...