The criminal mind /
by Harding, Duncan.
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BookPublisher: UK : Michael Joseph, 2024Description: vii, 388 pages ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780241446836 (hbk.) :; 024144683X (hbk.) :; 9780241446843 (pbk).Classification number: 614.1509 HARSubject(s): Harding, Duncan | Forensic psychiatrists -- Great Britain | Forensic psychiatry -- Great Britain | Health and Fitness | Health and Wellbeing | Autobiography: science, technology & medicine | Memoirs | True crime | Plays, playscripts | Sociology: death & dyingSummary: A likeable young girl who's burnt her family home to the ground. A man with no memory of the night he killed his wife. A teenager whose visions and voices have had murderous effect. One question binds these and others from the casebook of Britain's leading forensic psychiatrist: Why? What drives a person to commit seemingly inexplicable crimes? Dr Duncan Harding is the person the police and the courts turn to for answers. An expert witness, he must try to establish a defendant's mental state and motivation. And their fitness to stand trial.
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| Book - Adult Hardback | Bootle Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 614.1509 HAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 003124114X |
A likeable young girl who's burnt her family home to the ground. A man with no memory of the night he killed his wife. A teenager whose visions and voices have had murderous effect. One question binds these and others from the casebook of Britain's leading forensic psychiatrist: Why? What drives a person to commit seemingly inexplicable crimes? Dr Duncan Harding is the person the police and the courts turn to for answers. An expert witness, he must try to establish a defendant's mental state and motivation. And their fitness to stand trial.
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