Offender profiling and crime analysis
By: Peter B. Ainsworth.
Publisher: Willan; Willan Publishing (UK)
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Devon; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: Criminal behavior, Prediction of.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-194) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 Offender profiling - separating myth from reality; title: Is there consensus on what constitutes profiling?; title: What does profiling involve?; title: What do 'profiles' look like?; title: Can the goals of profiling be identified?; title: Are there different kinds of profiling?; title: What knowledge do profilers need?; title: Concluding comments; title: Further reading; title: 2 Criminal behaviour and its motivation; title: Explanations of criminal behaviour; title: Genetic and individual factors; title: Twin studies; title: Family influences; title: Personality theories; title: Social learning theories; title: Concluding comments; title: Further reading; title: 3 Environmental influences and patterns of offending; title: The influence of the environment; title: Defensible space; title: Is the environment entirely deterministic?; title: Modern housing and its possible effects; title: People's needs and environmental provision; title: Designing environments which might reduce; title: crime levels; title: Situational crime prevention; title: Crime displacement; title: Environmental effects on target selection; title: Is crime 'normal?; title: Repeat victimisation; title: Concluding comments; title: Further reading; title: 4 Problems and pitfalls in the gathering of data; title: The reporting and recording of offences; title: False reporting of 'crimes'; title: How can we know how much crime is committed?; title: Police recording of crime; title: Other ways in which biases may be produced; title: Human perception and memory; title: The interviewing of suspects; title: Concluding comments; title: Further reading; title: 5 Crime mapping and geographical profiling; title: The geography of crime; title: The Chicago School; title: The importance of place; title: Crime hot spots; title: Combining geographical and temporal information; title: on crime; title: Is such information useful?; title: Problems and difficulties with geographic profiling; title: Concluding comments; title: Further reading; title: 6 Early approaches to profiling; title: The development of the FBI's first profiling system; title: Other classifications - selfish v unselfish rapists; title: Further classification of rapists; title: What functions might categorisation have?; title: How useful is the FBI's approach?; title: Concluding comments; title: Further reading; title: 7 Investigative psychology and the work of David Canter; title: The psychological underpinnings of Canter's work; title: Canter's work on crime locations; title: Concluding comments; title: Further reading; title: 8 Clinical and other approaches; title: The Dutch approach to profiling; title: Contributions from forensic psychiatry and clinical; title: psychology; title: The work of Paul Britton; title: Comparing different approaches to profiling; title: Concluding comments; title: Further reading; title: 9 Current developments and future prospects; title: Canter's more recent work; title: Other recent British work; title: Stalking; title: Concluding comments; title: Further reading; title: Conclusions; title: How useful is offender profiling?; title: References; title: Index.