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Now in its third edition, Criminal Profiling is established as an industry standard text. It moves evidence-based criminal profiling into a full embrace of the scientific method with respect to examining and interpreting behavioral evidence. If focuses on criminal profiling as an investigatve and forensic process, helping to solve crime through an honest understanding of the nature and behavior of the most violent criminals. Throughout the text, the author outlines specific principles and practice standards for Behavioral Evidence Analysis, focusing on the application of theory and method to real cases. Criminal Profiling, Third Edition, is an ideal companion for students and professionals alike, including investigators, forensic scientists, criminologists, mental health professionals, and attorneys. With contributing authors representing law enforcement, academic, mental health, and forensic science communities, it offers a balanced perspective not found in other books on this subject. Readers will use it as a comprehensive reference text, a handbook for evaluating physical evidence, a tool to bring new perspectives to cold cases, and as an aid in preparing for criminal trials.
Audience
Students in programs such as: forensic science, psychology, sociology, criminal profiling, or investigative strategy in serial crime; and as a supplement to courses involving criminology, arson, stalking, sex crimes or death investigation. Forensic consultants, forensic scientists, law enforcement, investigators.
Contents
A History of Criminal Profiling; Criminal Profiling, The Scientific Method and Logic; Nomothetic Methods of Criminal Profiling; Forensic Psychology, Forensic Psychiatry, and Criminal Profiling; Behavioral Evidence Analysis: An Ideo-Deductive Method of Criminal Profiling; An Introduction to Crime Reconstruction; Wound Pattern Analysis; Staged Crime Scenes; Criminal Motivation; Case Linkage: Offender Modus Operandi & Signature; Victimology; False Reports; The Psychological Autopsy; Explosives: Behavioral Aspects; Stalking; Domestic Homicide; Mass Homicide; An Introduction to Terrorism; Offender Characteristics: Rendering the Profile; Psychopathy and Sadism: Interpreting Psychopathic & Sadistic Behavior in the Crime Scene; Sexual Asphyxia; Serial Crime: Investigating Patterns; Cyberpatterns: Criminal Behavior on the Internet; Criminal Profiling on Trial: The Admissibility of Criminal Profiling Evidence; Ethics and the Criminal Profiler
Hardbound, 816 pages, publication date: APR-2008
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