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Bezig met laden... Listening to Killers: Lessons Learned from My Twenty Years as a Psychological Expert Witness in Murder Casesdoor James Garbarino
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Listening to Killers offers an inside look at twenty years' worth of murder files from Dr. James Garbarino, a leading expert psychological witness who listens to killers so that he can testify in court. The author offers detailed accounts of how killers travel a path that leads from childhood innocence to lethal violence in adolescence or adulthood. He places the emotional and moral damage of each individual killer within a larger scientific framework of social, psychological, anthropological, and biological research on human development. By linking individual cases to broad social and cultural issues and illustrating the social toxicity and unresolved trauma that drive some people to kill, Dr. Garbarino highlights the humanity we share with killers and the role of understanding and empathy in breaking the cycle of violence. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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This book isn't quite what I expected. While the author spends a lot of time listening to killers, we don't. He shares many stories, but they are in the form of short case studies. Most of what we learn about them comes to us filtered and dispersed through the author's narrative. The content is also structured in a way that sometimes scatters the information for each case among multiple chapters. This makes it a little harder, at least for me, to really follow and understand the roots of each killer.
All of the cases featured here are young males and females, having killed in their teens or young adulthood. These aren't the hardened criminals most people imagine murderers to be. I was pleasantly surprised by this, because it's a subject that desperately needs attention. The author's explanation of what he calls the "war zone mentality" is compelling. This is a topic I would love to see gain further attention.
I want to emphasize that, while the author wants us to understand these killers, he is not asking us to give them a free pass. Compassion and empathy does not mean a get-out-of-jail-free card. But locking a 14-year-old child away for life in an adult prison is also not the answer. What we are doing is obviously not working. These children aren't born killers. Identifying and treating the problems early, before the killing starts, is a first step we absolutely must take.
This book has some thought-provoking content. Our society must have this discussion. But readers need to approach with an open mind. The close-minded, prison nation mentality is largely responsible for creating this problem in the first place.
*I received this book from the publisher, via NetGalley, in exchange for my honest review.* (