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  Index

  Abbott, Jack Henry

  Adolescence, impact of child abuse in

  Aggression

  and media violence

  pathological

  proactive (cold-blooded)

  reactive (hot-blooded)

  role models for

  and stress

  and substance abuse

  and testosterone levels

  See also Violence

  Alcohol abuse

  American Psychiatric Association

  Antisocial children

  and adult criminality

  group placement of

  identification of

  treatment of

  and violent crime rate

  See also Psychopaths

  Antisocial personality disorder (APD)

  Anxiety, lack of

  Arousability, low

  Arousal, by media violence

  Artists, psycopathic

  Attachment, disruption of

  Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

  Barrow, Clyde

  Behavior therapy

  Biological determinism

  and behavior modification

  and brain abnormalities

  in disease model of deviance

  and eugenics

  and genetics

  interaction with environment

  and low arousability

  and testosterone levels

  unsubstantiated claims of

  Blacks

  and crime

  psychopaths

  Bonney, William H. (Billy the Kid)

  Boredom, low threshold for

  Brain abnormality

  Brain wave

  Buckley, William

  Bundy, Ted

  Cassidy, Butch

  Chessman, Caryl

  Child abuse

  arousability of parent

  corporal punishment

  and cranial injury

  dissociative reactions from

  impact in adolescence

  prevention and remediation of

  self-defense reaction to

  Clockwork Orange, A (Burgess)

  Cold-bloodedness

  Cornered-animal syndrome

  Corporal punishment

  Correlation/causation

  Cranial injury

  Crime rate

  Criminality

  in American history and folklore

  of antisocial child

  and brain abnormality

  burnout phenomenon

  and corporal punishment

  gender differences in

  and intelligence

  and media violence

  numbers of offenses

  and poverty

  precursors of

  and race

  recidivism rate

  and substance abuse

  and testosterone level

  See also Murderers; Violence

  Criminal justice system

  child murderers in

  and death penalty

  and firearms restriction

  plea bargaining in

  and preventative custody

  social liberal policies in

  “three strikes” laws in

  Death penalty

  Desensitization, to media violence

  Diagnostic and Statistical Manuals (DSMs)

  Disease model

  Disinhibition

  Dissociative reactions

  Drug abuse

  EEG abnormality

  Empathy, lack of

  Environment

  corporal punishment

  correlation studies


  family breakdown

  genetic traits modified by

  in infant/toddler period

  interaction with biology

  media violence

  nature/nurture debate

  paternal role model

  political attitudes toward

  prenatal

  and race

  social-learning approach to

  Eugenics

  Family

  breakdown

  chaotic

  unification

  See also Parents

  Fathers, as role model

  FBI psychological profiles

  Fearlessness

  Firearms, restricted access to

  47XYY karyotype

  Galton, Francis

  Gang leaders

  Gender differences

  Genetic traits

  Golden, Andrew

  Hare Psychopathy Checklist

  Head injury

  Heart rate

  Hot-bloodedness

  Huckabee, Mike

  Identification, with media violence

  Impulse control

  In the Belly of the Beast (Abbott)

  Intelligence, and criminality

  James, Jesse

  Jamison, Kay Redfield

  Johnson, Mitchell

  Jonesboro massacre

  Kaczynski, Theodore

  Kellerman, Faye

  Killer Inside Me, The (Thompson)

  Kinkel, Kipland

  Laing, R.D.

  Leopold and Loeb

  Mailer, Norman

  Manic-depression

  Marxist criminological doctrine

  Mauritius Child Health Study

  Media violence

  Menendez, Lyle and Erik

  Millar, Thomas

  Montagu, Ashley

  Moral training

  Murderers

  brain abnormality in

  child

  for domination

  faulty reasoning in

  incarceration of

  prehomicidal violence by

  premeditation of

  signs of violent criminality

  coolness of

  psychotic

  serial

  sexual

  Nash, Robert Jay

  Nature vs. nurture debate

  Neurotransmitters

  Newton, Huey

  Noncompliant behavior

  Orphanages, for abused children

  Panzram, Carl

  Parents

  and family breakdown

  incompetent

  loss of

  paternal role model

  removal of high-risk child from

  resistance to child’s treatment

  training of

  See also Child abuse

  Phenylketonuria (PKU)

  Plea bargaining

  Polygraph

  Pornography

  Positive reinforcement, and media violence

  Poverty, and criminality

  Prenatal development

  Psycho

  Psychological profiles

  Psychopaths

  amorality of

  artistic/creative

  biological explanations for. See Biological determinism

  black

  in criminal justice system

  defined

  deterrents to

  and disease model

  emotions of

  environmental factors in. See Environment

  failure of therapy and rehabilitation

  gang leaders

  gender differences in

  glamorization of

  impulsive aspect of

  interpersonal aspect of

  labeling and relabeling of

  from privileged backgrounds

  psychological profiles of

  vs. psychotics

  sanity of

  schizoid

  serial murderers

  sexual

  testing

  underreactivity of

  See also Aggression; Criminality; Murderers; Violence

  Psychotherapy

  Psychotics

  biological explanation for

  and crime

  Quantrill’s guerrillas

  Race

  Raine, Adrian

  Rehabilitation

  Relabeling

  Samenow, Stanton

  Sanitization, and media violence

  Schizoid psychopaths

  Schizophrenia

  School killings

  Sensation-seeking behavior

  Serial murderers

  Serotonin

  Sexual psychopaths

  Skin conductance

  Sleep patterns

  Smith, Edgar Herbert

  Social isolation

  Social-learning approach

  Sociopaths

  Speck, Richard

  Talmud, on incorrigibility

  Testosterone

  Thompson, Jim

  “Three strikes” laws

  Time-out

  Truancy

  Twin studies

  Unquiet Mind, An (Jamison)

  Unterwegger, Jack

  Violence

  biological factors in

  channeled by military conscription

  characteristics of

  and corporal punishment

  gender differences in

  manic-depressive

  media

  prehomicidal

  rise in

  role models for

  schizophrenic

  threats of

  See also Aggression; Criminality; Murderers

  Weston, Rusty

  Yochelson, Samuel

  BOOKS BY JONATHAN KELLERMAN

  FICTION

  Billy Straight

  Survival of the Fittest

  The Clinic

  The Web

  Self-Defense

  Bad Love

  Devil’s Waltz

  Private Eyes

  Time Bomb

  Silent Partner

  The Butcher’s Theater

  Over the Edge

  Blood Test

  When the Bough Breaks

  NONFICTION

  Savage Spawn: Reflections on Violent Children

  Helping the Fearful Child

  Psychological Aspects of Childhood Cancer

  FOR CHILDREN, WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED

  Jonathan Kellerman’s ABC of Weird Creatures

  Daddy, Daddy, Can You Touch the Sky?

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  The recipient of numerous awards for achievement in fiction writing and psychology, JONATHAN KELLERMAN is the author of three volumes on psychology, two books for children, and fourteen consecutive best-selling novels, as well as scores of research studies and essays published in scientific and popular journals.

  Trained as a child clinical psychologist, Dr. Kellerman was founding director of the Psychosocial Program, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, and is currently clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of Southern California School of Medicine and clinical professor of psychology at USC’s College of Arts and Sciences. He and his wife, bestselling novelist Faye Kellerman, have four children.

  Read on for an excerpt from

  GUILT

  by Jonathan Kellerman

  Published by Ballantine Books

  CHAPTER

  1

  All mine!

  The house, the life growing inside her.

  The husband.

  Holly finished her fifth circuit of the back room that looked out to the yard. She paused for breath. The baby—Aimee—had started pushing against her diaphragm.

  Since escrow had closed, Holly had done a hundred circuits, imagining. Loving every inch of the place despite the odors imbedded in ninety-year-old plaster: cat pee, mildew, overripe vegetable soup. Old person.

  In a few days the painting would begin and the aroma of fresh latex would bury all that, and cheerful colo
rs would mask the discouraging gray-beige of Holly’s ten-room dream. Not counting bathrooms.

  The house was a brick-faced Tudor on a quarter-acre lot at the southern edge of Cheviot Hills, built when construction was meant to last and adorned by moldings, wainscoting, arched mahogany doors, quartersawn oak floors. Parquet in the cute little study that would be Matt’s home office when he needed to bring work home.

  Holly could close the door and not have to hear Matt’s grumbling about moron clients incapable of keeping decent records. Meanwhile she’d be on a comfy couch, snuggling with Aimee.

  She’d learned the sex of the baby at the four-month anatomical ultrasound, decided on the name right then and there. Matt didn’t know yet. He was still adjusting to the whole fatherhood thing.

  Sometimes she wondered if Matt dreamed in numbers.

  Resting her hands on a mahogany sill, Holly squinted to blank out the weeds and dead grass, struggling to conjure a green, flower-laden Eden.

  Hard to visualize, with a mountain of tree-trunk taking up all that space.

  The five-story sycamore had been one of the house’s selling points, with its trunk as thick as an oil drum and dense foliage that created a moody, almost spooky ambience. Holly’s creative powers had immediately kicked into gear, visualizing a swing attached to that swooping lower branch.

  Aimee giggling as she swooped up and shouted that Holly was the best mommy.

  Two weeks into escrow, during a massive, unseasonal rainstorm, the sycamore’s roots had given way. Thank God the monster had teetered but hadn’t fallen. The trajectory would’ve landed it right on the house.

  An agreement was drawn up: The sellers—the old woman’s son and daughter—would pay to have the monstrous thing chopped down and hauled away, the stumps ground to dust, the soil leveled. Instead, they’d cheaped out, paying a tree company only to cut down the sycamore, leaving behind a massive horror of deadwood that took up the entire rear half of the yard.

  Matt had gone bananas, threatened to kill the deal.

  Abrogate. What an ugly word.

  Holly had cooled him off by promising to handle the situation, she’d make sure they got duly compensated, he wouldn’t have to deal with it.

  Fine. As long as you actually do it.

  Now Holly stared at the mountain of wood, feeling discouraged and a bit helpless. Some of the sycamore, she supposed, could be reduced to firewood. Fragments and leaves and loose pieces of bark she could rake up herself, maybe create a compost pile. But those massive columns …