Your Criminal Mind - Couverture rigide

Tate, Harrison Rose

Couverture rigide

ISBN 13 : 9798994988015

Editeur : Ecs, 2026

Synopsis

A STANDARD THAT

APPLIES ONLY SOMETIMES

IS NOT MUCH OF A

STANDARD AT ALL

Why do some people do terrible things?

Why do good people hurt the people they love?

Why do I keep making the same mistakes?

Why is someone I care about so difficult to understand?

Ever wonder why these questions continue to elude us, despite all our advances in psychology, neurology, artificial intelligence and philosophy?

As a society, we've all been holding the same sledgehammer for centuries, sensing that we are standing on a metaphorical bedrock, Underneath it are answers we have sought since Socrates' days. To crack it open, we first have to let go of the assumption that there is a consistent "why."

There is not, and has never been, a single, context- independent explanation for human behavior. We don't look out our window in the dead of winter and wonder why it isn't summer. Conditions change.

A profound, anti-reductionist, and interdisciplinary look at the mind, morality, behavioral dysregulation, cultural misreadings of behavior, and our notion of harm as epistemically unstable. Your Criminal Mind explores humanity from the perspective that human variability is the rule rather than the exception. Drawing on neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, criminology, and everyday observation, Harrison Rose Tate considers what happens to traditional ideas of responsibility when access to reason, inhibition, perspective, and self-control fluctuates across circumstances and over time.

Central to the book is the concept of the Greyline, a state in which reactive processes become disproportionately active while reflective and regulatory capacities become less accessible. Tate uses this framework to examine behavior ranging from ordinary interpersonal conflict and anxiety to addiction, parenting, leadership, criminal conduct, and institutional decision-making.

The book distinguishes momentary capacity from longitudinal accountability, arguing that reduced regulatory access in a particular moment does not eliminate responsibility for the patterns people recognize, reinforce, manage, or neglect across time. It also considers how families, workplaces, institutions, and cultures shape the conditions under which regulation becomes easier or more difficult.

Rather than proposing a new neurological mechanism, Your Criminal Mind integrates established observations about state-dependent cognition, regulation, agency, environment, and behavior into a framework for reconsidering morality and accountability. It asks whether systems built around an ideal of stable, continuously rational human agency can adequately account for the way people actually behave.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Harrison Rose Tate is an award-winning American author of literary historical fiction and nonfiction whose work explores human behavior, identity, culture, and the forces that shape individual lives. Her writing moves between intimate, often overlooked human histories and broader questions about technology, morality, and society.Her books include The Tour Guide, Heavy Metal Is a Sin, Elsewhere Is a Place in Central Park, The Proxy Condition, and Your Criminal Mind: Biology, Belief and the Impossible Ideal. Her nonfiction work The Proxy Condition received the 2026 Literary Titan Gold Book Award.Tate's writing has earned independent editorial recognition from Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly's BookLife, Midwest Book Review, Reedsy Discovery, and Literary Titan. Her books have been acquired by public and state libraries in the United States, with documented international library holdings.Before publishing books under her own name, Tate spent more than two decades writing professionally, much of it without a byline. She holds a master's degree in managerial leadership, and her background in technology leadership, systems architecture, and organizational strategy informs her interdisciplinary approach to nonfiction.Across genres, Tate is drawn to the preservation of human experience, particularly the stories, perspectives, and questions that might otherwise go unexamined.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ecs
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798994988015
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Nombre de pages: 348
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible