Criminal Profiling: Developing an Effective Science and Practice (Law and Public Policy - Psychology and the Social Sciences Series) - Hardcover

Book 6 of 13: Law and Public Policy: Psychology and the Social Sciences

Hicks, Scotia J.; Sales, Bruce Dennis

 
9781591473923: Criminal Profiling: Developing an Effective Science and Practice (Law and Public Policy - Psychology and the Social Sciences Series)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1591473926 ISBN 13: 9781591473923
Publisher: American Psychological Association, 2006

Synopsis

"Criminal Profiling: Developing an Effective Science and Practice" aims to transform criminal profiling into a credible science and practice that will reliably aid law enforcement investigation. Authors Scotia J. Hicks and Bruce D. Sales painstakingly critique the state of criminal profiling today and find the practice of criminal profiling to be an art more than an established science, lacking clear links among crime scene evidence and offender motives, personality, and behavior. With no firm scientific basis for their judgments, profilers differ in their conclusions and recommendations, rendering profiling problematic as a law enforcement tool. This book tackles this problem squarely, exploring in detail how a science of profiling may be constructed and tested. The comprehensive new approach offered here builds on existing practice and research and calls for empirical information that can lead to a sound new science of criminal profiling.

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Publisher
American Psychological Association
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1591473926
ISBN 13 
9781591473923
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
288