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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; Wound Pattern Analysis; Staged Crime Scenes; Criminal Motivation; Case Linkage: Offender Modus
Operandi & Signature; Victimology; False Reports; The Psychological Autopsy; Explosives: Behavioral Aspects; Stalking; Domestic Homicide;
Mass Homicide; An Introduction to Terrorism; Offender Characteristics: Rendering the Profile; Psychopathy and Sadism: Interpreting Psychopathic & Sadistic Behavior in the Crime Scene; Sexual Asphyxia; Serial Crime: Investigating Patterns; Cyberpatterns: Criminal Behavior on the
Internet; Criminal Profiling on Trial: The Admissibility of Criminal Profiling Evidence; Ethics and the Criminal Profiler
Bibliographic & ordering Information
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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USD 79.95
EUR 66.95
GBP 45.99
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Last update: 13 Jul 2008
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