David L. Shapiro

Retrying Leopold and Loeb

A Neuropsychological Perspective

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This book retrospectively analyzes the notorious 1924 case of Leopold and Loeb, in which two college students murder a young boy just to prove they could do it. In the almost hundred years since that trial, the field of neuroscience along with neuropsychology have expanded tremendously, and there are now much more sophisticated tools that could be used to evaluate the perpetrators of this crime. Although deemed mentally ill at the time, there was not much scientific evidence that could be brought to bear on the defendants' and their behavior. Now a legal psychologist and a neuropsychologist team up to tackle the case from a modern viewpoint… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Golden, Charles / Ferguson, Sara

ISBN: 978-3-319-74599-2
EAN: 9783319745992
Produktnummer: 31952048
Verlag: Springer Nature EN
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 58 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.5 cm 124 g
Auflage: 1st ed. 2018
Gewicht: 124
Sonstiges: Professional/practitioner

Über den Autor

David L Shapiro Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychology at Nova Southeastern University where he teaches courses in Ethics, Projective Techniques, Forensic Assessment and Criminal Law. He has published extensively in the field of forensic Psychology. He is a Diplomate in Forensic Psychology of the American Board of Professional Psychology. Charles Golden Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychology at Nova Southeastern University, where he is chair of the concentration in neuropsychology. He has a long list of publications in the field of neuropsychology and is a Diplomate in Clinical Neuropsychology of the American Board of Professional Psychology.