Profiling and Serial Crime: Theoretical and Practical Issues

Profiling and Serial Crime: Theoretical and Practical Issues

Petherick, Wayne

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The third edition of Profiling and Serial Crime illustrates the promise, purposes, and pitfalls of behavioral profiling in the investigation of serial crime, and provides a theoretical and practical foundation for students. Part one, on profiling, examines inductive and deductive reasoning, profiling methods (including geographic profiling), metacognition, expert evidence, and more. Part two examines serial crime in detail, including cyber-bullying, stalking, rape, murder, and arson. This edition has been thoroughly revised throughout to reflect the latest research in criminal profiling and serial crime. Specific updates include six all-new chapters, including serial harassment and cyber-bullying and the motivations of victim and offender, and two replacement chapters on serial rape and serial arson. Provides a theoretical and practical foundation for understanding the motivation and dynamics in a range of serial offensesAncillary online materials for instructors and students, including lecture slides, test bank and case studies Numerous case examples show the real world uses of behavioral profiling in investigations INDICE: PART I: CRIMINAL PROFILING Chapter 1:  Criminal Profiling: A Continuing History by Gareth Norris Chapter 2:  Induction and Deduction in Criminal Profiling by Wayne Petherick Chapter 3:  Behavioural Consistency, The Homology Assumption, and the Problems of Induction by Wayne Petherick and Claire Ferguson Chapter 4:  Criminal Profiling Methods by Wayne Petherick Chapter 5:  Geographic Profiling - From Maps and Pins to GIS by Gareth Norris NEW Chapter 6:  The Fallacy of Accuracy in Criminal Profiling by Wayne Petherick Chapter 7:  Case Linkage by Michael McGrath NEW Chapter 8:  Staged Crime Scenes by Claire Ferguson NEW Chapter 9:  Investigative Relevance by Claire Ferguson Chapter 10:  Metacognition in Criminal Profiling by Barry Woodhouse and Wayne Petherick Chapter 11:  Criminal Profiling as Expert Evidence by Wayne Petherick, David Field, Andrew Lowe and Elizabeth Fry Chapter 12:  Where to From Here by Wayne Petherick PART II: SERIAL CRIME Chapter 13: Serial Harassment and Bullying by Wayne Petherick and Yolande Huntingdon NEW Chapter 14:  Serial Stalking:  Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places by Wayne Petherick Chapter 15:  Serial Rape, Alicia Jenkins and Wayne Petherick New replacement chapter Chapter 16:  Understanding Serial Sexual Murder:  A Biopsychsocial Approach by Robert J Homant and Daniel B Kennedy Chapter 17:  Serial Arson by Ross Brogan New replacement chapter Chapter 18: Motivations: The Offender's Perspective by Wayne Petherick and Grant Sinnamon NEW Chapter 19: Motivations: The Victim's Perspective by Wayne Petherick and Grant Sinnamon NEW Glossary of Terms

  • ISBN: 978-1-4557-3174-9
  • Editorial: Anderson
  • Encuadernacion: Rústica
  • Páginas: 480
  • Fecha Publicación: 08/03/2013
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés