Motive A person's motive for doing something is the reason why they do it or their
purpose in doing it. To do something without a motive is to do it "for no reason".
Like deliberation, motive is a mental state; although unlike deliberation, a motive
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Author: Peter Cane
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 1901362094
Category: Law
Page: 243
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Instead, every deliberate action must have an invariable antecedent in the form of
a motive. When there is no conflicting motive this motive must cause the agent to
act. When there are contrary motives the strongest must prevail. Not all motives ...
Author: R.D. Gallie
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401590206
Category: Philosophy
Page: 202
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Another company might have much better grades and stronger motive power ,
and yet show a trainload much smaller , simply because most of its freight
originated in less than train - loads or even in less than car - load lots . Again , the
short ...
Author: Thomas Francis Woodlock
Publisher:
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Category: Railroads
Page: 111
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C HAPTER VII FOREPERIOD: VALENCE AND MOTIVE AROUSAL The
foreperiod includes transactions that precede performance and determine its
direction, strategy, intensity, duration, etc. What is involved is an actualization of
motive ...
Author: Heinz Heckhausen
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 1483271722
Category: Psychology
Page: 236
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Includes material on "the Trailside Killer in San Francisco, the Atlanta child murderer, the Tylenol poisoner, the man who hunted prostitutes for sport in the woods of Alaska, and Seattle's Green River killer ..."
Author: John E. Douglas
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501191969
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 448
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it is to lose the object of one's love, especially in the context of a long partnership
or marriage, we tend to be less shocked when we hear that jealousy was the
motive for a murder. We also realize that a loss in a love relationship is harder to
...
Author: Michael H. Stone, MD
Publisher: Prometheus Books
ISBN: 1633883361
Category: Psychology
Page: 486
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... and the coauthor of the landmark books Sexual Homicide: Patterns and
Motives and Crime Classification Manual. ... Most-Wanted Serial Killer, Journey
into Darkness-, Obsession-, The Anatomy of Motive, and the novel Broken Wings.
Author: John E. Douglas
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 067100395X
Category: Fiction
Page: 366
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His sole motive was the power he exerted ... As John Douglas reports in his book
The Anatomy of Motive, Berkowitz admitted during an interview that “on nights
when he could not find the appropriate victims of opportunity, he would return to ...
Author: Harold Schechter
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 9780345472007
Category: True Crime
Page: 432
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The odd thing was, of the three necessities in the commission of a transgression,
motive, means and opportunity, the motive and the means, which should have
been, or so it would seem, the more impor- tant, disjunct from opportunity, had ...
Author: James McCourt
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0871404583
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 323
View: 532
She was in many respects the whip of the Centre, and she managed to persuade
and convince Adam that he had some special feelings of love towards B, which
was not true. Only she herself can explain her motive for this incitement ...
Author: Adam Michaelis
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 8776910296
Category:
Page: 362
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In the #1 New York Times bestseller Mindhunter, John Douglas, who headed the FBI's elite Investigative Support Unit, told the story of his brilliant and terrifying career tracking down some of the most heinous criminals in history.
Author: John E. Douglas
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439107815
Category: True Crime
Page: 400
View: 437
The motive or moving power . The mind is introduced into the world with all its
powers in preparation for movement , but they would lie dormant , were it not laid
open by means of the organs of sense to the influence of the external world ; as a
...
Author: REV. JAMES CARLILE
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And we then detect another motive power , in the pleasure connected with its
discriminations and discoveries . But what effects do these motive powers
produce ? We find that they produce various emotions and operations in the mind
itself ...
Author: James CARLILE (Minister of the Scots Church, Capel Street, Dublin.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Page: 269
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Douglas, J. and Olshaker, M. (1999) The Anatomy of Motive, New York, Scribner.
Douglas, J., Ressler, R.K., Burgess, A.W. and Hartman, C.R. (1986) Criminal
profiling from crime scene analysis. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 4(4), pp.
Author: David V. Canter
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 047002397X
Category: Psychology
Page: 486
View: 210
The Anatomy of Motive : The FBI ' s Legendary Mindhunter Explores the Key to
Understanding and Catching Violent Criminals . New York , NY : Pocket Books ,
2000 . Johnson , Leroy . Hostage Rescue Manual . Revised edition . London ...
Author: J. Poolos
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 9781404209411
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
Page: 64
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Donovan, Robert J. The Assassins of American Presidents. London: Elek Books,
1956. Douglas, John, and Mark Olshaker. The Anatomy of Motive. London:
Pocket Books, 1999. ———. The Cases That Haunt Us. London: Pocket Books,
2000.
Author: Mel Ayton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 162157234X
Category: History
Page: 304
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John Douglas and Mark Olshaker, The Anatomy of Motive: The FBI's Legendary
Mindhunter Explores the Key to Understanding and Catching Violent Criminals (
New York: Pocket Books, 2000), p. 184. 19. Investigation Discovery, Wicked ...
Author: R. Barri Flowers
Publisher: R. Barri Flowers
ISBN:
Category: True Crime
Page:
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The listing of the quirks caused by self-centeredness brings us to another psychic
reality that is hard to decipher—motive. This is no small matter. Motive is actually
a central factor in assessing people (historical or fictional), in judging actions, ...
Author: Manfred Weidhorn
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595409504
Category: Philosophy
Page: 429
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