Park Dietz

Park Dietz (né en 1948) is a forensic psychiatre who has consulted or testified in many of the highest profils US criminal cases including, Joel Rifkin, Arthur Shawcross, Jeffrey Dahmer, The Unabomber, Richard Kuklinski, the Beltway sniper attacks, and Jared Lee Loughner. He came to national prominence en 1982 during his five days of testimony as the prosecution s expert witness in the trial of John Hinckley, Jr., for his attempted assassination of President Reagan on March 30, 1981. Then de professeur assistant de psychiatrie at Harvard Medical School, Dietz testified that at the time of the shooting, Hinckley knew what he was doing, knew it was wrong, and had the capacity to control his behavior donc was not legally insane. Dietz is also a criminologist, et en 1987 he created the specialty of workplace violence prevention dans les founding Threat Assessment Group, Inc. (JOUR), which specializes dans analyzing and managing threatening behavior and communications, de harcèlement, de risks arising from domestic violence, and other anormale d'activité dans corporations, colleges and schools. As of 2013, more than 20,000 senior corporate manager have attended JOURNÉE de formation, séminaire. A separate company, Park Dietz & Associates (PD&A), is a forensic consulting firm specializing in criminal behavior analysis, forensic psychiatry, forensic psychology and other forensic sciences, service des prosecutors, criminal defense attorneys, and attorneys representing defendants and plaintiffs en civil litigation. PD&A s national roster of experts includes physicians, psychologists, and retired FBI agents with wide expertise on the forensic aspects of fields as plusieurs as neurology, social work and pathology. Both day and PD&A are headquartered in Southern California with PD&A having a second office à Washington, D. C.