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An Introduction to Behavioral Evidence Analysis
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Third Edition
By
Brent Turvey, Forensic Solutions LLC, Sitka, AK, USA
Description
Now in its third edition, Criminal Profiling is established as an industry standard text. It moves evidence-based criminal profiling
into a full embrace of the scientific method with respect to examining and interpreting behavioral evidence. If focuses on criminal profiling
as an investigative and forensic process, helping to solve crime through an honest understanding of the nature and behavior of the most
violent criminals. Throughout the text, the author outlines specific principles and practice standards for Behavioral Evidence Analysis,
focusing on the application of theory and method to real cases.
Criminal Profiling, Third Edition, is an ideal companion
for students and professionals alike, including investigators, forensic scientists, criminologists, mental health professionals, and
attorneys. With contributing authors representing law enforcement, academic, mental health, and forensic science communities, it offers
a balanced perspective not found in other books on this subject. Readers will use it as a comprehensive reference text, a handbook for
evaluating physical evidence, a tool to bring new perspectives to cold cases, and as an aid in preparing for criminal trials.
Audience
Students in programs such as: forensic science, psychology, sociology, criminal profiling, or investigative strategy in serial crime;
and as a supplement to courses involving criminology, arson, stalking, sex crimes or death investigation. Forensic consultants, forensic
scientists, law enforcement.
Contents
A History of Criminal Profiling
Criminal Profiling, The Scientific Method and Logic
Nomothetic Methods of Criminal Profiling
Forensic
Psychology, Forensic Psychiatry, and Criminal Profiling
Behavioral Evidence Analysis: An Ideo-Deductive Method of Criminal Profiling
An
Introduction to Crime Reconstruction
Crime Scene Analysis
Wound Pattern Analysis
Staged Crime Scenes
Criminal Motivation
Case
Linkage: Offender Modus Operandi & Signature
Victimology
False Reports
The Psychological Autopsy
Fire and Explosives:
Behavioral Aspects
Stalking
Domestic Homicide
Mass Homicide
Introduction to Terrorism: Understanding and Interviewing Terrorists
Offender
Characteristics: Rendering the Profile
Psychopathy and Sadism: Interpreting Psychopathic & Sadistic Behavior in the Crime Scene
Sexual
Asphyxia
Serial Crime
Cyberpatterns: Criminal Behavior on the Internet
Criminal Profiling on Trial: The Admissibility of Criminal
Profiling Evidence
Ethics and the Criminal Profiler
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Hardbound, 816 pages, publication date: APR-2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-374100-4
ISBN-10: 0-12-374100-9
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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