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The Criminal Genius | James Oleson | TEDxYouth@ParnellCollege

Professor James Oleson on the representation of criminal minds in pop culture and analysis of the psychology behind. James Oleson is an Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Auckland. After enlisting in the U.S. Navy’s nuclear propulsion programme at the age of 17, he went on to earn his BA in psychology and anthropology from St. Mary’s College of California (1994), his MPhil (1995) and PhD (1998) in criminology from the University of Cambridge, and his JD (2001) from the law school at the University of California, Berkeley (where he also served as Editor-in-Chief of the California Law Review). Between 2001 and 2004, he taught criminology and sociology at Old Dominion University, and was named its 2004 “rising star professor.” In 2004, he was selected as one of four U.S. Supreme Court Fellows for 2004-05. He received the Tom C. Clarke Award at the end of the fellowship year and was appointed as Chief Counsel to the newly formed Criminal Law Policy Staff of the United States Courts, serving in that capacity from 2005 until 2010 (when he relocated to Auckland to help create its new programme in criminology). He is the author of Criminal Genius: A Portrait of High-IQ Offenders, the co-author of Contesting Crime Science: Our Misplaced Faith in Crime Prevention Technology (with Ronald Kramer), and the co-editor of Fifty Years of Causes of Delinquency: The Criminology of Travis Hirschi (with Barbara Costello). He currently working on a book about representations of the prison in popular culture. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx