Criminal profiling : international theory, research and practice

Dedication Preface List of Contributors Table of Contents Section (I) Profiling crimes of violence 1/ Homicidal syndromes: A clinical psychiatric perspective. George B. Palermo 2/ Offender profiles and crime scene patterns in Belgian sexual murders. Fanny Gerard, Christian Mormont and Richard N. Kocsis 3/ Profiling sexual fantasy: Fantasy in sexual offending and the implications for criminal profiling. Dion Gee and Aleksandra Belofastov 4/ Murder by manual and ligature strangulation: Profiling crime scene behaviors and offender characteristics. HelinS HSkkSnen 5/ Criminal propensity and criminal opportunity: An investigation of crime scene behavior of sexual aggressors of women. Eric Beauregard, Patrick Lussier and Jean Proulx Section (II) New techniques and applications 6/ Case linkage: Identifying crimes committed by the same offender. Jessica Woodhams, Ray Bull and Clive R. Hollin 7/ Predicting offender profiles from offense and victim characteristics. David P. Farrington and Sandra Lambert 8/ Criminal profiling in a terrorism context. Geoff Dean 9/ Geographic profiling of terrorist attacks. Craig Bennell and Shevaun Corey Section (III) Legal and policy considerations to criminal profiling 10/ Criminal profiling as expert evidence: An international case law perspective. Caroline B. Meyer 11/ Criminal profiling: Impact on mock juror decision making and implications for admissibility. Anne Marie R. Paclebar, Bryan Myers and Jocelyn Brineman 12/ The phenomenon of serial murder and the judicial admission of criminal profiling in Italy. Anglo Zappala and Dario Bosco 13/ Criminal profiling and public policy. Jeffrey B. Bumgarner 14/ The observations of the French judiciary: A critique of the French Ministry of Justice policy report into criminal analysis. LaurentMontet 15/ The image of profiling: Media treatment and general impressions. James S. Herndon Section (IV) Critiques and conceptual dimensions to criminal profiling 16/ Contemporary problems facing criminal profiling. Richard N. Kocsis and George B. Palermo 17/ Fine-Tuning geographical profiling. Jasper J. van der Kemp and Peter J. van Koppen 18/ Skills and accuracy in criminal profiling. Richard N. Kocsis 19/ Investigative experience and profile accuracy: A replication study. David Gogan 20/ Ideological schools of thought to criminal profiling. Richard N. Kocsis