Criminal Psychology & Personality Profiling
Criminal Psychology & Personality Profiling

Author: Joan Esherick

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-09-02

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 1422289494

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Television programs and feature films present criminal psychology and profiling as a blend of psychic visions, supernatural intuition, and evidence analysis. The reality, however, is quite different. Using true-crime case studies from history and the present, examples from current and former FBI profilers, and informative sidebars, Criminal Psychology & Personality Profiling explores the many roles and responsibilities criminal psychologists and profilers fill as they support other professionals in addressing crime and its consequences. From crime-scene analysis to offering expert testimony in court, these behavioral scientists offer an understanding of crime, the criminal mind, and those affected by crime.

Criminal & Behavioral Profiling
Criminal & Behavioral Profiling

Author: Curt R. Bartol

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2012-08-29

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1412983088

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"'Criminal & Behavioral Profiling, ' written by well-established authors Curt and Anne Bartol, presents a realistic and empirically based look at the theory, research, and practice of modern criminal profiling, or, as it's more professionally termed, behavioral analysis or behavioral investigative analysis. Designed for use in a variety of criminal justice and psychology courses, the book delves into the process of identifying distinctive behavioral tendencies, geographical locations, demographic, and biographical descriptors of offenders, and personality traits, based on characteristics of the crime. Timely literature and case studies from the rapidly growing international research in criminal profiling help students understand the best practices, major pitfalls, and psychological concepts that are key to this process."--Back cover.

Criminal Profiling
Criminal Profiling

Author: Connor Whiteley

Publisher: CGD Publishing

Published: 2021-06-14

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Whether you’re a forensic psychology student, trained professional or a person interested in forensic psychology. This book is for you! · Do you want to know about criminal profiling? · Do you want to know the truth about FBI profiling? · Do you want to know what the two types of criminal profiling are? If the answer to these questions and more is yes. Then you will love this book. As it explains criminal profiling in an engaging and easy to understand way. This is not a hyped-up book about the brilliance of profiling. This is a book about what are the two types of profiling and what the research says about them. Of course, this is a lot more interesting than your textbooks from university! By the end of this forensic psychology book, you’ll know: · What are the types of criminal profiling? · What FBI profiling is? · How effective profiling is in the real world? · What statistical and geographical profiling is? · And much more… If you love forensic and criminal psychology and want to learn about criminal profiling, you need to read this great and interesting book from a passionate psychology author. BUY IT NOW! Criminal Profiling: A Forensic and Criminal Psychology Guide To FBI And Statistical Profiling Content Introduction Part One: FBI Profiling 1.1- Introduction to FBI Profiling 1.2- The Process of FBI Profiling, Their Methodology and The Process of Police Investigations 1.3- FBI Profiling Example 1.4- What Research Says About Profiling? 1.5- What Do the Police and Psychologists Think About Profiling? Part Two: Statistical and Geographical Profiling 2.1- Investigative Psychology and Statistical and Geographical Profiling 2.2- Geographical Profiling 2.3- The Research Base of Profiling 2.4- The Homology Issue and Basic Theory 2.5- Personality and Profiling Conclusion

Evidence-Based Offender Profiling
Evidence-Based Offender Profiling

Author: Bryanna Fox

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-02-18

Total Pages: 101

ISBN-13: 1000049671

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Offender profiling is an investigative tool used to narrow down the range of potential suspects for a crime by predicting the personality, behavioral, and demographic characteristics that an offender is likely to possess, based upon information collected at the crime scene. While offender profiling has been popularized by TV shows and movies such as Criminal Minds, Silence of the Lambs, and Mindhunter, the real-world impact of offender profiling is largely unknown. This book discusses the history of offender profiling, summarizes research on offender profiling methods, and reviews offender profiling evaluations of accuracy and applied impact. This book also describes a promising new offender profiling methodology called evidence-based offender profiling. This new method relies upon empirical data and scientific methods to develop, evaluate, and replicate offender profiles, thereby increasing offender profiling’s accuracy and utility for active police investigations. It uses prior information about statistical regularities between types of offenders and types of offenses to predict the characteristics of offenders in unsolved cases. A discussion of the future of offender profiling research and implications for law enforcement is also included. This book also explains how practitioners can benefit from the use of empirically tested and validated profiles in their unsolved investigations and how the use, continued research, and evaluation of evidence-based offender profiling can advance the quality, prestige, and utility of the field of offender profiling.

Applied Criminal Psychology
Applied Criminal Psychology

Author: Richard N. Kocsis

Publisher: Charles C Thomas Publisher

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 0398092362

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Applied Criminal Psychology provides the reader with a comprehensive and practical guide to psychological research and techniques. It is introductory and wide-ranging and covers important forensic aspects of psychology, psychiatry, and behavioral sciences. Many key forensic issues are covered, including personality disorders, risk assessment, the forensic psychologist as an expert witness, detecting deception, eyewitness memory, cognitive interviewing, forensic hypnosis, false confessions, criminal profiling, and crisis negotiation. With this new edition and starting with the first two chapters, significant focus has been placed upon Psychopathy and the closely associated DSM category of Anti-Social Personality Disorder. Another new chapter has also been included dedicated to the principles of law associated with an accused person's mental status. The book is international and interdisciplinary in its scope and focus. Many of the contributors to this book are well known scholars and/or practitioners. It will be of great interest to psychologists, psychiatrists, criminologists, legal professionals, law enforcement personnel and students who are planning careers in forensic psychology, criminology, and policing.

Offender Profiling
Offender Profiling

Author: Janet L. Jackson

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Most incidents of violent crime occur between people who know each other, but in other cases (fortunately much less frequent) there are no obvious ties between the victim and the criminal, and these cases cause a great deal of social fear and uncertainty. They also result in large-scale, costly investigations and, increasingly, police are collaborating with other professionals in a process of offender profiling which might help their investigation. This book is a substantial, unique and critical account of the scope and practice of offender profiling, and its limitations. Professionals worldwide, from psychiatry, psychology, criminology and policing, have contributed accounts of their experience and knowledge across a range of approaches to offender profiling. Some use a clinical approach, based on the application of established theories of personality and psychopathy. Others argue for the effectiveness of the objective analysis of offence records to predict future offending. Some of the police contributions provide a frank description of their methods, others address the difficult issues relating to the use of offender profiling. This is a controversial subject, full of potent myth, and the object of this book is to provide a cool overview of the related scientific knowledge, now spread over many journals and reports, as well as accounts of the process and difficulties of offender profiling. It will be useful and interesting to most scientists and professionals in the field of criminal justice. This book is in the Wiley Series in the Psychology of Crime, Policing and Law.

Sexual Murderers
Sexual Murderers

Author: Jean Proulx

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2007-09-10

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 0470059532

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Little is known about Sexual Murderers – those who kill in a sexual context. Recent studies have compared their backgrounds and characteristics with that of rapists and/or violent (non-sexual) offenders. This translation of a French original by the renowned Jean Proulx challenges existing knowledge on sexual murders, offers new tools for profiling and interrogation, and helps to establish a new research base. Current theories of sexual murder, its prevalence, reasons including attachment theories, profiling and interrogation techniques are all addressed in Proulx’s distinctive, thought-provoking style.

Foundations of Psychological Profiling
Foundations of Psychological Profiling

Author: Richard Bloom

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2013-02-22

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1482209446

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Profiling is a hot topic today. The post-9/11 "War on Terrorism" has engendered political, ethical, and scientific controversy over its use. The proliferation of recent films, television programs, and books is a sociocultural indicator of widespread interest. Designed for a diverse audience including law enforcement officers, intelligence and secur

Forensic Psychologists Casebook
Forensic Psychologists Casebook

Author: Laurence Alison

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-07-23

Total Pages: 439

ISBN-13: 1134028865

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book aims to demonstrate how forensic psychology contributes to police investigations, providing practical information about the type of reports provided by psychologists and behavioural advisors, and set within a broader theoretical context. It asks the question 'What do practitioners actually do when they provide advice for the police and the courts and how do they do it?' The contributors to the book are all experts in the field of offender profiling and behavioural investigative advice. The chapters provide valuable insights into particular case details, the ethical and legal consequences of advice, coverage of the relevant theoretical context, explanations for conclusions drawn, practical difficulties in preparing reports, potential pitfalls, and an account of how cases are resolved.

Criminal Profiling
Criminal Profiling

Author: Richard N. Kocsis

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-06-30

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1603271465

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In this book, renowned profiler Dr. Richard Kocsis presents a distinct approach to profiling called Crime Action Profiling or CAP. The volume explains the scope and methodology employed in the studies that the author has undertaken over the past decade and a half. CAP adopts the view that profiling essentially represents a psychological technique that has its foundations in the disciplinary knowledge of forensic psychology.