Offender profiling and crime analysis
Publisher: Willan Pub.
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cullompton
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781843924630
Subjects: Prediction of Criminal behavior
Description: Offender Profiling and Crime Analysis' provides a highly readable account of the subject -- and a picture of profiling which by no means accords with popular views and representations of what is involved. The book provides an overview of profiling techniques, offering some fascinating insights into the various approaches to profiling, and schools of thought, which have emerged -- looking particularly at the work of the FBI, and of British and Dutch profilers.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Offender profiling; title: separating myth from reality; 2 Criminal behaviour and its motivation; 3 Environmental influences and patterns of offending; 4 Problems and pitfalls in the gathering of data; 5 Crime mapping and geographical profiling; 6 Early apporaches to profiling; 7 Investigative psychology and the work of David Canter; 8 Clinical and other approaches to profiling; 9 Current developments and future prospects; Conclusions; References; Index.