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Profiling and Serial Crime Theoretical and Practical Issues

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ISBN-10: 1455731749

ISBN-13: 9781455731749

Edition: 3rd 2014

Authors: Wayne Petherick

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Profiling and Serial Crime illustrates the promise, purposes, and pitfalls of behavioral profiling in the investigation of serial crime and provides a theoretical and practical foundation for students. Part I, on profiling, examines the history, crucial issues, methods, theory, and treatment in the mainstream media. Part II examines serial crime in detail, including cyber-bullying, stalking, rape, murder, and arson. In addition to the new and replacement chapters, this edition has been thoroughly revised throughout to reflect the latest research in criminal profiling and serial crime. NEW TO THIS EDITION: Six all-new chapters, including serial harassment and cyber-bullying and the…    
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Book details

List price: $72.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
Publication date: 3/8/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.156
Language: English

Wayne Petherick is Associate Professor of Criminology at Bond University in Australia. Wayne's areas of interest include forensic criminology, forensic victimology, criminal motivations, criminal profiling, and applied crime analysis. He has worked on risk and threat cases, a mass homicide, stalking, rape, and a variety of civil suits involving premises liability and crime prevention. He has presented to audiences in Australia and abroad, and has published in a variety of areas including social science and legal works in the areas of criminal profiling, expert evidence, stalking, serial crimes, criminal motivations, and victimology. Wayne is co-editor of Forensic Criminology, and editor of…    

Criminal Profiling
Criminal Profiling: A Continuing History
Induction and Deduction in Criminal Profiling
Behavioural Consistency, The Homology Assumption, and the Problems of Induction
Criminal Profiling Methods
Geographic Profiling - From Maps and Pins to GIS
The Fallacy of Accuracy in Criminal Profiling
Case Linkage
Staged Crime Scenes
Investigative Relevance
Metacognition in Criminal Profiling
Criminal Profiling as Expert Evidence
Where to From Here
Serial Crime
Serial Harassment and Bullying
Serial Stalking: Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
Serial Rape
Understanding Serial Sexual Murder: A Biopsychsocial Approach
Serial Arson
Motivations: The Offender's Perspective
Motivations: The Victim's Perspective
Glossary of Terms