Criminal Profiling Principles and Practice /

• Main Author: Kocsis, Richard N. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2006.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Forensic medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; Forensic Medicine.

Criminal Profiling: Principles and Practice provides a compendium of original scientific research on constructing a criminal profile for crimes that are not readily resolvable by conventional police investigative methods. Leading profiling expert Richard N. Kocsis, PhD, utilizes a distinct approach...

Table of Contents:

• What Is Criminal Profiling?
• Smoke and Mirrors
• Rhetoric vs Reality
• 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
• Procedural Considerations and Format Guidelines.