Serial Crime: Theoretical and Practical Issues in Behavioral Profiling - Hardcover

Petherick BSocSc MCrim PhD, Wayne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0120885123 ISBN 13: 9780120885121

Publisher: Academic Press, 2005

Synopsis

Serial Crime provides a theoretical and practical foundation for understanding the motivation and dynamics in a range of serial offenses . It successfully connects concepts and creates links to criminal behavior across crimes ―murder, sexual assault, and arson― something no other book available does.

The connection of serial behavior to profiling, the most useful tool in discovering behavior patterns, is new to the body of literature available and serves to examine the ideal manner in which profiling can be used in conjunction with psychology to positively affect criminal investigations.

The book includes case examples that offer real-world uses of behavioral profiling in investigations, and highlight a variety of issues in understanding and investigating serial crime.

The book's primary audience would include criminal profilers, fire investigators, universities offering forensic science/criminal justice programs, and forensic, police, criminal, and behavioral psychologists. The secondary audience would include attorneys and judges involved in criminal litigation, and forensic scientists and consultants (generalists).

* Provides a theoretical and practical foundation for understanding the motivation and dynamics in a range of serial offenses

* Illustrates the promise, purposes and pitfalls of behavioral profiling in the investigation of various serial crimes

* Case examples offer real-world uses of behavioral profiling in investigations, and highlight a variety of issues in understanding and investigating serial crime

About this title

Review:

The only serial crimes book to investigate the use of behavioral analysis with criminal profiling!

Synopsis:

"Serial Crime: Theoretical and Practical Issues in Behavioral Profiling" successfully connects concepts and creates links to criminal behavior across crimes murder, sexual assault, and arson something no other book available does. The connection of serial behavior to profiling, the most useful tool in discovering behavior patterns, is new to the body of literature available and serves to examine the ideal manner in which profiling can be used in conjunction with psychology to positively affect criminal investigations. It provides a theoretical and practical foundation for understanding the motivation and dynamics in a range of serial offenses. It illustrates the promise, purposes and pitfalls of behavioral profiling in the investigation of various serial crimes. It includes case examples that offer real-world uses of behavioral profiling in investigations, and highlight a variety of issues in understanding and investigating serial crime.

About this edition

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0120885123
• ISBN 13: 9780120885121
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 280