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Park Dietz

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Park Dietz (born 1948) is a forensic psychiatrist who has consulted or testified in many of the highest profile 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 in 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 an assistant professor of psychiatry 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 thus was not legally insane. Dietz is also a criminologist, and in 1987 he created the specialty of workplace violence prevention in founding Threat Assessment Group, Inc. (TAG), which specializes in analyzing and managing threatening behavior and communications, stalking, risks arising from domestic violence, and other abnormal activity in corporations, colleges, and schools. As of 2013, more than 20,000 senior corporate managers have attended TAG training seminars. 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, serving prosecutors, criminal defense attorneys, and attorneys representing defendants and plaintiffs in 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 diverse as neurology, social work and pathology. Both TAG and PD&A are headquartered in Southern California with PD&A having a second office in Washington, D.C.


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Born:
In Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, USA
Movie/TV Credits:
8
First Appeared:
In the movie Acts of Violence 1985-01-02
Latest Project:
Movie And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine 2023-06-01
Known For
Poster of Starsuckers
Poster of The Iceman and the Psychiatrist
Poster of Acts of Violence
Filmography
Movie And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine Self (archive footage) 2023-06-01
Series Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes Self - Forensic Psychiatrist 2022-10-07
Movie Crazy, Not Insane Self - Forensic Psychologist 2020-03-18
Movie Jeffrey Dahmer: Mind of a Monster Self - Forensic Psychiatrist 2020-05-25
Movie The Virgin Killer Self - Forensic psychiatrist 2014-06-15
Movie Starsuckers Self - Forensic Psychiatrist 2009-09-30
Movie The Iceman and the Psychiatrist Self 2004-06-01
Movie Acts of Violence Self - Psychiatrist 1985-01-02