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  2. Mar 12, 2022 · Key points. Murder, both real and fictional, is a popular genre of entertainment in America. An array of strong emotions are woven into case histories of real murders of the past. Recent...

    • Are Murderers Misunderstood?
    • What Are Your Work's Implications?
    • Can Murderers Be "cured"?
    • Is The Legal System Starting to Embrace Your Way of Thinking?
    • What's Next For You?

    The general public tends to view murderers as absolutely evil persons or people so damaged they can't possibly live among us. But most killers are untreated traumatized children who are controlling the actions of the scary adults they have become. Trauma is fundamental, but often the general public doesn't see that part of it. They see the result o...

    If lots of killers are untreated traumatized children controlling scary adults, one obvious place to start is to treat traumatized children. There's a growing movement toward trauma-informed communities, trauma-informed education, trauma-informed everything. For example, a colleague was talking about an eighth-grader who was so traumatized about wa...

    Some can, some can't. Probably more than most people suspect can recover. Modern neuroscience is telling us both about the immaturity of the brains of adolescents, which often extends to 20- and 25-year-olds, but also about the malleability of adult brains. That's good news, because it means the brain is in an interactive relationship with experien...

    It's starting to percolate. In Miller v. Alabama and Graham v. Florida, the Supreme Court has started to get this. In Miller,the court ruled that mandatory life sentences without the possibility of parole were unconstitutional for juvenile offenders. The Miller decision extended the court's 2010 ruling in Graham, which outlawed mandatory life sente...

    My current work is prompted in part by the Millerdecision. In Illinois, for example, there are about 90 cases — mostly guys who got life without parole as teenagers — whose cases are now being reviewed. I'm participating in those resentencing hearings. A similar process is beginning in Florida, and I'm playing a role there, too. I see this as the l...

  3. Mar 18, 2021 · Considering the increasing number of murder cases in Malaysia, understanding the murder victim concealment acts from the perspectives of the perpetrators via in-depth interviews is crucial to provide insights pertaining to the intent (mens rea) and the planning element (actus reus) of the murderers.

    • Mohammad Rahim Kamaluddin, Naji Arafat Mahat, Geshina Ayu Mat Saat, Azizah Othman, Ian Lloyd Anthony...
    • 2021
  4. Louis Schlesinger, PhD, a professor of psychology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York and coinvestigator of a research project on sexual and serial murder with the FBI Behavioral Science Unit, talks about what we really know about these murderers’ motivations and their methods, how some manage to avoid capture for so long ...

  5. Aug 25, 2020 · First described by psychologist Joel Norris in 1988, these phases take the killer through an intricate and complex journey, mentally, and then manifest outwardly through their heinous acts of...

  6. Apr 19, 2021 · By John Parrington. April 19th 2021. Serial killers—people who repeatedly murder others—provoke revulsion but also a certain amount of fascination in the general public. But what can modern psychology and neuroscience tell us about what might be going on inside the head of such individuals?

  7. Computed across a lifespan of 75 years, there is a 1 in 200 chance that an individual in the United States will be murdered. The frequency of homicide and this startlingly high statistic warrant more concerted efforts to research the psychological underpinnings motivating homicide.

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