Crime

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America  by Author, Crown Publishers (2003)

People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman  by Richard Lloyd Parry, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2012.  The crime occurred in a neighborhood of Tokyo called Roppongi. In this neighborhood there are many kinds of foreigners: Koreans, Chinese, Filipinas, Thais, Ghanians, Nigerians, Gambians, Russians, Iranians,  Israelis, and even the French. Most Koreans in Japan belong to Zainichi Chōsenjin, which is subdivided into Mindan (which has close ties with South Korea) and Chōs

Inside the Criminal Mind, Revised and Updated Edition by Stanton Samenow, Crown, 2012.  Bad Thinking The author sees the root cause of criminal behavior as being bad thinking.  Nature or Nurture? The author objects to the idea that a child’s mind is a blank slate leads to the idea that society is at fault when someone becomes a criminal. Whether there is a genetic predisposition to criminality remains an open question. But there is evidence that temperament is largely inborn.

Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us  by Robert D. Hare, Guilford Press, 1999.  Self Reporting When trying to diagnose prisoners for psychopathy, he found that earlier tests for psychopathy, which were called personality inventories, suffered from the defect of self-reporting. They were vulnerable to coaching. Prisoners gave answers tailored to convincing the psychologist that either they were not mentally ill, or that they were suffering from

Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case  by Stuart Taylor, Jr. and K. C. Johnson, St. Martin's Griffin, 2008.  Prosecutorial Misconduct This is a detailed look at one case of prosecutorial misconduct. In order to win votes from black citizens in North Caroline, a district attorney engaged in malicious prosecution of three members of the Duke LaCrosse team. The district attorney accused the athletes of raping a bl