Principles of geographical offender profiling / edited by David Canter and Donna Youngs.

Aldershot, Hampshire : Ashgate Publishing, c2008.

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Geographical offender profiling.

Criminal investigation -- Psychological aspects.

1. --2. --3. --4. --5. --6. --7. --8. --9. --10. --11. --12. --13. --14. --15. Geographical offender profiling: origins and principles Navigational ideas and the Yorkshire Ripper investigation Excerpt from: On the mode of communication of cholera Home-range and movements of leopards (Panthera pardus) on a livestock ranch in Kenya Notes on the geometry of crime Delinquency and distance Crime and mobility: an empirical study Place, space, and police investigations: hunting serial violent criminals The road to nowhere: the evidence for travelling criminals Distance decay reexamined Geographical profiling of criminals Identifying the residential location of rapists Spatial patterns of serial murder: an analysis of disposal site location choice Criminals' mental maps Putting crime in its place: psychological process in crime site selection.

This book is a collection of papers which lay out the concepts and foundations of the field of geographical offender profiling, in which the examination of where offences take place is used to formulate views on the nature of the offender.

Table of contents and index are taken from the published work with the permission of the publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780754625490

xvi, 290 p. : ill. ; 22 cm