Your question really made me think, and from just scanning through comments so far, I'm sure I'll be using some of the suggested resources too.
If you want to get into some in-depth stuff on psychopathy (for example;background, terminology), I can highly, highly recommend reading anything by Prof Robert Hare. He's a world expert in psychopathy, and has actually developed the psychometric instrument used to identify this. He has a great website of related resources: http://www.hare.org/ There's a very good links page on this site also.
I was involved in hosting a seminar he gave at my uni a couple of years ago (one of those once-in-a-blue-moon opportunities - he was just passing through) and his stuff was riveting. Very interesting guy. And he liaises a lot with the media in his work as a forensic psychologist, so his books are not overly technical.
This website is also an excellent forensic psych resource (one of the best I've seen) - it has a huge glossary of terms, lots of links and other resources: http://www.forensiceducation.com/forensic_files/index.htm
Recommended to anyone with an interest!
This is general info. about the area (not CM-specific) - Buffy is right, it's a great idea to take notes when you watch episodes. I think a lot of people do this to get a feel for the show when writing fic.
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Date: Jun. 30th, 2008 07:46 pm (UTC)Your question really made me think, and from just scanning through comments so far, I'm sure I'll be using some of the suggested resources too.
If you want to get into some in-depth stuff on psychopathy (for example;background, terminology), I can highly, highly recommend reading anything by Prof Robert Hare. He's a world expert in psychopathy, and has actually developed the psychometric instrument used to identify this. He has a great website of related resources: http://www.hare.org/
There's a very good links page on this site also.
I was involved in hosting a seminar he gave at my uni a couple of years ago (one of those once-in-a-blue-moon opportunities - he was just passing through) and his stuff was riveting. Very interesting guy. And he liaises a lot with the media in his work as a forensic psychologist, so his books are not overly technical.
This website is also an excellent forensic psych resource (one of the best I've seen) - it has a huge glossary of terms, lots of links and other resources: http://www.forensiceducation.com/forensic_files/index.htm
Recommended to anyone with an interest!
This is general info. about the area (not CM-specific) - Buffy is right, it's a great idea to take notes when you watch episodes. I think a lot of people do this to get a feel for the show when writing fic.
Hope this is helpful in some way :)