Criminal profiling : international theory, research and practice
The technique commonly referred to as 'criminal profiling' is one in which crime behaviors are evaluated to predict the likely attributes of an offender. In practice, the technique has enjoyed steady growth and interest over the past three decades. The present volume draws together research from scholars and practitioners from across the globe that examines from a range of multidisciplinary perspectives the use, application and value of this form of profiling. The material canvassed throughout this text not only examines research and theoretical principles for the assessment of crimes, but ext
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pt. I. Profiling crimes of violence. Homicidal syndromes : a clinical psychiatric perspective / George B. Palerma ; Offender profiles and crime scene patterns in Belgian sexual murders / Fanny Gerard, Christian Mormont, Richard N. Kocsis ; Profiling sexual fantasy : fantasy in sexual offending and the implications for criminal profiling / Dion Gee, Aleksandra Belofastov ; Murder by manual and ligature strangulation : profiling crime scene behaviors and offender characteristics / Kelina Hakkanen ; Criminal propensity and criminal opportunity : an investigation of crime scene behaviors of sexual aggressors of women / Eric Beauregard, Patrick Lussier, Jean Proulx
pt. II. New techniques and applications. Case linkage : identifying crimes committed by the same offender / Jessica Woodhams, Ray Bull, Clive R. Hollin ; Predicting offender profiles from offense and victim characteristics / David P. Farrington, Sandra Lambert ; Criminal profiling in a terrorism context / Geoff Dean ; Geographic profiling of terrorist attacks / Craig Bennell, Shevaun Corey
pt. III. Legal and policy considerations for criminal profiling. Criminal profiling as expert evidence? An international case law perspective / Caroline B. Meyer ; Criminal profiling : impact on mock juror decision making and implications for admissibility / Anne Marie R. Paclebar, Bryan Myers, Jocelyn Brineman ; The phenomenon of serial murder and the judicial admission of criminal profiling in Italy / Angelo Zappala, Dario Bosco ; Criminal profiling and public policy / Jeffrey B. Bumgarner ; The observations of the French judiciary : a critique of the French Ministry of Justice Policy Report into Criminal Analysis / Laurent Montet ; The image of profiling : media treatment and general impressions / James S. Herndon
pt. IV. Critiques and conceptual dimensions to criminal profiling. Contemporary problems in criminal profiling / Richard N. Kocsis, George B. Palermo ; Fine-tuning geographical profiling / Jasper J. van der Kemp, Peter J. van Koppen ; Skills and accuracy in criminal profiling / Richard N. Kocsis ; Investigative experience and profile accuracy : a replication study / David Gogan Schools of thought related to criminal profiling / Richard N. Kocsis
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