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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 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by anymeans, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Jacobs, Don (Don E.) Analyzing criminal minds : forensic investigative science for the 21st century / Don Jacobs. p. cm. — (Brain, behavior, and evolution) Includesbibliographical 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 ISBN: 978-0-313-39699-1 EISBN: 978-0-313-39700-4 15 14 13 12 11 1 2 3 4 5

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Contents

Series Foreword Acknowledgments Part I. Forensic Investigative Science Introduction to Part I: Scientists Who Seek to Capture Criminal Minds Chapter 1. Becoming a Forensic Investigative Scientist Chapter 2. New Tools from Neuroscience Chapter 3. Criminal Minds Capture Autobiography of Rachel’s Life: Determination—Life in Desperation Part II. TheBrainmarks Paradigm of Adaptive Neuropsychopathy Introduction to Part II: Headquarters for Calculating Minds and Deceptive Practices Chapter 4. Deceptive Practices Chapter 5. Calculating Minds Chapter 6. Res Ipsa Loquitur Chapter 7. Trapdoor Spiders Autobiography of Sabrina’s Life: Invincible

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Part III. Order Becoming DisorderIntroduction to Part III: Being Whatever He Needs to Be Chapter 8. Toxic Recipes Chapter 9. DANE Brainmarks Chapter 10. Order Becoming Disorder Autobiography of Lauren’s Life: Tortured by Tears Part IV. Truly, Honestly, Deceptively Chapter 11. Graduate Seminar Chapter 12. On Cloud Nine Autobiography of Cassidy’s Life: Life Is Bigger Than One Person Bibliography Index

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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 hadclaimed 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 behavioralsciences to the attention of the general public. In the past decade, some of these scientific 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 benefit from these new therapies. That is exciting news indeed, and the general public needs to learn about...