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Presents over 100 illustrations of signs and symbols to look for at crime scenes that indicate ritual practice
Includes background and investigation techniques for crimes involving religion-based terrorism
Details domestic and international terrorist religions
Provides organizational structures of large clans and covens, membership and recruitment policies, and homicide case studies
Offers intelligence strategies inclusive of indoctrination techniques, negotiation and prosecution strategies, and advantages of understanding religious violence
Examines types of criminal profiling and provides a crime classification system to distinguish between types of ritual homicide
The legalities of particular religious practices depend on many factors, such as the type of occult or religious activity, the current laws, and the intention of the individual practitioner. Written by the director of the Institute for the Research of Organized and Ritual Violence, Investigating Religious Terrorism and Ritualistic Crimes is the first complete resource to assist in crime scene identification, criminal investigation, and prosecution of religious terrorism and occult crime. It analyzes occult and religious terrorist practices from each group's theological perspective to help you understand traditional and contemporary occult groups and domestic and international terrorist religions, demarcate legal religious practice from criminal activity, and acquire techniques specific to occult and terrorist religion crime scene investigation.
Publication Date: 12/15/2003
Number of Pages: 453
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