Criminal profiling : principles and practice / Richard N. Kocsis. Foreword by George B. Palermo.

Totowa, NJ : Humana Press Inc., U.S., 2006.

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Criminal behavior, prediction of -- United States.

Criminal investigation -- Psychological aspects.

1. What is criminal profiling?

2. Smoke and mirrors: the illusions of accuracy in criminal profiles

3. Rhetoric vs reality: investigating the skills and accuracy of criminal profiling

4. The components and processes of criminal profiling

5. Defining serial violent crime

6. Operational interpretation of the CAP models

7. Criminal profiling of serial rape offenses

8. Criminal profiling of sexual murder offenses

9. Criminal profiling of serial arson offenses

10. Offense location patterns: geographic profiles

11. Procedural considertions and format guidelines

Epilogue. Fighting fire with fire.

This book provides a compendium of original scientific research on constructing a criminal profile for crimes that are not readily resolvable by conventional police investigative methods.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9781588296399

xxi, 273 p. : ill. ; 24 cm