Offender Profiling and Crime Analysis

ISBN-13: 9781903240229 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 208 str.

Peter B. Ainsworth; P. Ainsworth

Opis

Offender profiling is a set of techniques used by law enforcement agencies to try to identify perpetrators of serious crime. There has been a rapidly growing interest in this subject over recent years. Profiling techniques have been used increasingly by police forces in many parts of the world, while fictional representations in films and television series like Silence of the Lambs, and Cracker have generated an enormous popular fascination with the topic.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Offender profiling − 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 approaches to profiling 7. Investigative psychology and the work of David Canter 8. Clinical and other approaches 9. Current developments and future prospects 10. Conclusions

O autorze

Peter Ainsworth