Profiling in Policy and Practice: v. 2 (Offender Profiling Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1840147822 ISBN 13: 9781840147827

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 1999

Synopsis

Analyzing the system of offender profiling, this book takes into consideration the quality and validity of the information on which police base their decisions, assessing the possibilities for detecting deception. The consistencies of a criminal's behaviour are also studied, with a look at the differences between one offender and another. Other questions asked include what form such groups take and the influence they have on trhe criminal's actions, the role of leaders in crimes or the socio-cultural processes of which they are a part. There are also imortant issues about the implications and use of any answers that may emerge from scientific studies of crimes and their investigation.

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Review

'This book is a "must" for aspiring forensic psychologists.' Science and Justice '...contains a number of interesting chapters outlining a diverse range of new areas of investigative psychology.' Forensic Update

About the Author

David Canter, University of Huddersfield , UK and Laurence Alison, University of Liverpool, UK Laurence Alison, David Canter, Petrus van Duyne, Nigel Fielding, Ray Aldridge-Morris, Joy P. Aked, Anthony J. Sanford, Nichola Smith, Kathleen Cox, David Ormerod.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1840147822
• ISBN 13: 9781840147827
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Canter David V., Alison Laurence J.