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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
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 …