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Muderous Minds- Dean A Haycock phD- A book review.

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Murderous Minds by Dean A Haycock- A book review.  Dean A Haycock is an author who I highly recommend for anyone studying Criminology, Psychology, anthropology, and Neuroscience. He specialises in Science and Medicine. This is shown through his PhD research in Neuroscience from the Brown University in Rhode Island. I thoroughly enjoyed reading his book ‘murderous minds’. It is important to note that the research displayed in the book does acknowledge the separation between psychopathy and violence.   This book does explore the minds of a subsection of psychopaths. They have been classified as ‘criminal psychopaths’. This is the distinction between those who have ‘successful psychopathic tendencies’ such as struggling to comprehend and adapt to social situations, reading body language and emotional cues, but do not act on these lacking abilities in a criminalising manner. Encompassing the ‘criminal psychopath’ Dean explains that there are characteristics which could m...