Sexual Forensics: Lust, Passion, And Psychopathic Killers [Hardcover]

This book taps neuroscience and neuropsychology to provide hard facts about brain conditions and the behavior that emerges from powerful brain chemistrya fascinating read for adolescents, parents, and teachers alike.

Sexual Forensics: Lust, Passion, and Psychopathic Killersprovides a fascinating examination of neurotruths that are relevant and applicable to 21st-century parenting and social relationships, and explains workplace brainmarks that enable predictive solutions to practical problems.

Author Don Jacobs, a researcher who has been studying psychopathy for over 25 years, describes how psychopathy has evolved as a brain condition, documenting how the vast majority of the spectrum represents normalcy, and only 20 to 30 percent of humankind characterizes corruptors or violent, pathological individuals. The book examines examples of individuals who have demonstrated significant achievement, influence, wealth, or corruptive behavior in differently abled profiles, and provides student autobiographies that enable rare scientific insights into the adolescent state of mind.

Don Jacobsis professor and department chair of behavioral science for psychology and forensic science at Weatherford College, Weatherford, TX.

Ashleigh Portalesis a crime scene investigator in Decatur, TX, serves as adjunct professor in forensic and behavioral sciences at Weatherford College, and is a certified police officer in the state of Texas.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. Sexual Forensics
Chapter 1. Degrees of Pedigrees
Chapter 2. Screaming Red Flags
Chapter 3. Sexual Forensics and the Modern Neurospectrum
Chapter 4. The Psychopath Alarm and Why It Fails
Part II. The Story Behind the Story
Chapter 5. Passionate Brainmarks
Chapter 6. Modulating Brainmarks
Chapter 7. Neuroglia, the Paralimbic System, and the Gut
Chapter 8. Two Puberties and What Men Know without Knowing
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