Retrying Leopold and Loeb A Neuropsychological Perspective /

• Main Authors: Shapiro, David L. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Golden, Charles (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Ferguson, Sara (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Behavioral Criminology,
• Subjects: Forensic psychology.; Forensic Psychology.

This book retrospectively analyzes the notorious 1924 case of Leopold and Loeb, in which two college students murder a young boy just to prove they could do it. In the almost hundred years since that trial, the field of neuroscience along with neuropsychology have expanded tremendously, and there ar...

Table of Contents:

• The Crime
• The Trial
• Closing Arguments
• Judge Caverly's Sentencing
• A Re-Examination
• Re-Imaginging the closing Arguments.