- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: OUP USA (6 May 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0195121139
- ISBN-13: 978-0195121131
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 16.2 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,053,519 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"My goal," writes Donald Black, at the beginning of Bad Boys, Bad Men "is to educate readers about a serious but underappreciated health problem." This is the core of the book: an attempt to identify and describe a psychiatric disorder that goes undiagnosed in the vast majority of cases of anti-social men. Based on the study of men treated at the University of Iowa Psychiatric Hospital between 1945 and 1970, Bad Boys, Bad Men explores the connection between conduct disorder in boys and the chaotic lives of the men Black describes as "anti- social". The key to that connection is pattern: the anti-social does not break the occasional social rule but lives in a state of constant resistance to authority and norm--with predictable results in terms of economic, psychological and emotional poverty. Cautious when it comes to causes--some combination of gene and environment is proposed--Black is clear that the crucial predictor of ASP is conduct disorder in childhood. Aiming at the general reader, as well as professionals, he traces the common themes of ASP through his subjects' lives: chaotic childhoods, abuse, unemployment, addiction, violence and, sometimes, murder. More problematically, he supports the topical claim that ASP is a "lurking threat" to the fabric of cultural life through a wide range of high-profile cases of violence and murder: among others, Saddam Hussein, O.J. Simpson, John Gacy. But are these men really comparable? And how do you start to separate ASP as a specific disorder from the apparent prevalence of ASP symptoms?: that's the problem, and challenge, of this contribution to the study of criminal behaviour. --Vicky Lebeau
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"Clearly written, informative, and filled with intriguing stories of real people....Tells us what we need to know about antisocial personality disorder. A wonderful book."--John M. Oldham, MD, Columbia University
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Genetic determinism has been with us since the bible. Recent advances in genome and proteome studies debunk both radical claims: "people are born bad" (bad seeds hypothesis) and "people are corrupted by bad parents and society" (the tabula rasa approach). It seems that genes and environment interact, recursively influencing each other. So are crime and moral dissolution hereditary mental disorders - or learned behavior patterns? The author votes for the former in this impressive but accessible introductory text, replete with dozens of case studies and recent scientific data. Still, social and domestic ills such as abuse and poverty, admits Black, a psychiatrist, play a role, at least in unlocking the criminal "potential". One should applaud the author's honesty in admitting his own profession's helplessness in the face of these depraved and largely untreatable personality disorders. Sam Vaknin, author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited".
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I have a shelf full of books that have bits and pieces of information on conduct disorder and the like on young men. Bad Boys, Bad Men takes all of that information, blends it together, adds to it, and spits it out in a very readable, comprehensive book that is like a dream come true to me. I mean it. And the advice to family members is so valid and honest. And the advice to the ASP person is so straight-forward. Reading this book has filled in many pieces for me in my search to understand the nature of a loved one. Bravo to Dr. Black and his writer friend. May this book be read by all the probation officers, juvenile judges, social workers and counselors alive. I truly believe that ASP is the basis for so much pain and suffering in our society.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I'm still recovering from my 5-year marriage to a man with ASP that ended in 1982. When I left him, I'd never heard of ASP or sociopathy and I thought I was losing my mind. Reading "The Mask of Sanity" was the best tool available to help me. "Bad Boys, Bad Men" was the book I wish had been available back then. This book isn't "pop" psychology. It is an engaging discussion of a long-term study of ASP by a respected researcher and professor of psychiatry. The financial and emotional costs of antisocial behavior are incalculable. But I hear commentators on TV and radio every day who simply don't know what they are talking about. I am so grateful to now have the facts at my fingertips.
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A fascinating update of the ASP!
Clearly influenced by Hervey Cleckley's classic work, "The Mask of Sanity", Donald Black's brief overview of the enigma of the antisocial personality disorder in its... Read more
Published on 1 April 1999
A good resource book!
After many paper and journal searches in the library on Antisocial Personality Disorder, I was attempting to put it all together..... then I discovered this Book! Read more
Published on 19 Mar 1999
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