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Criminal profiling : principles and practice /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kocsis, Richard N.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [2006]
Subjects:
Criminal Psychology > methods.
Crime > psychology.
Forensic Psychiatry > methods.
Personality Assessment.
Violence > psychology.
Criminal behavior, Prediction of.
Criminal investigation > Psychological aspects.
Violent offenders > Psychology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Peface : The evolution of crime action profiling
  • What is criminal profiling?
  • Smoke and mirrors : the illusions of accuracy in criminal profiles
  • Rhetoric vs reality : investigating the skills and accuracy of criminal profiling
  • The components and processes of criminal profiling
  • Defining serial violent crime
  • Operational interpretation of the CAP models
  • Criminal profiling of serial rape offenses
  • Criminal profiling of sexual murder offenses
  • Criminal profiling of serial arson offenses
  • Offense location patterns : geographic profiles
  • Procedural considerations and format guidelines
  • Fighting fire with fire
  • Understanding descriptive and inferential statistics : a beginner's guide
  • Variable and coding tables.