"Criminal Profiling: An Introduction to Behavioral Evidence Analysis" is a unique work centered on the deductive profiling method developed by the author. Deductive profiling is different from other forms of profiling because it centers the process on forensic evidence, and does not involve the use of averaged, statistical profiles. It approaches each criminal incident as its own universe of behaviors and relationships. Criminal Profiling includes a thorough rendering of the features of the deductive profiling method, an overview of the legal aspects involved in profiling, and an exploration into specific profiling issues that arise in different types of serial crime. It also includes the author's unique analysis of the Whitechapel murders of 1888 and the JonBenet Ramsey case. This book is an indispensable resource for students and professionals in the law enforcement, mental health, criminological, and legal communities.
This book places offender profiling within a more realistic, balanced context. Initial chapters introduce a theoretical, empirical basis for the approach, and are followed by chapters illustrating the pros and cons of its use in an applied, operational setting. It presents two basic ideas: that offender profiling is not an end in itself, but is purely an instrument for steering an investigation in a particular direction, and that the process of developing a profile depends on a combination of investigative experience together with objective findings from behavioral science research.
Hunting Serial Predators: A Multivariate Classification Approach to Profiling Violent Behavior examines this new method in-depth. It presents a facet classification of serial murderers and their crime scene actions based on empirical and repeatable studies, and argues that such an empirical process to analyzing their behavior is necessary to make logical decisions on how to detect and apprehend them. With its new, cutting-edge classification system, as well as thorough review of existing models, Hunting Serial Predators helps facilitate significant advances in homicide investigation, etiology, and treatment.
This authoritative book represents the data, findings, and implications of a long-term F.B.I.-sponsored study of serial sex killers. Specially trained F.B.I. agents examined thirty-six convicted, incarcerated sexual murderers to build a valuable new bank of information which reveals the world of the serial sexual killer in both quantitative and qualitative detail. Data was obtained from official psychiatric and criminal records, court transcripts, and prison reports, as well as from extensive interviews with the offenders themselves. Featured in this book is detailed information on the F.B.I.'s recently developed Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (VICAP) and a sample of an actual VICAP Crime Analysis Report Form.
A guide for students and professionals in criminology and criminal justice to constructing a psychological profile of someone who perpetrated a crime. The method incorporates such social factors as age, race, sex, occupation, and education. The second edition includes new chapters on geography, the use of computers, arson, and pedophilia; it also drops the chapter on Satanic murders, which was little used by professionals and much used by zealots to justify witch hunts.
This landmark book classifies the three major felonies--murder, arson, and sexual assault--based upon the motivation of the offender, standardizing in one place, for the first time, the language and terminology used throughout the criminal justice system. A decade in development, this work forms the basis of contemporary investigative "profiling," the highly acclaimed strategy enabling law enforcement personnel to solve a crime by generating a "profile" of the suspect. This will provide police officers and other law enforcement personnel, as well as mental health professionals, in any size community, access to the same information as used by the FBI to coordinate their investigations.
This book is an overview of the career of the FBI man who nearly single-handedly created the system for personality profiling of violent offenders. If there's a big-time multiple murderer from about 1950 until now who hasn't been interviewed by Robert Ressler, he probably refused the honor. Indispensable reading for serial killer mavens, and better written than John Douglas and Mark Olshaker's Mindhunter, this book is packed with fascinating details from dozens of cases: The killer John Joubert, for example, started his life of cruelty as a kid one day when he was riding his bike with a sharpened pencil in his hand. He rode up next to a little girl who was walking, and stabbed her in the back with the pencil.
Robert Keppel explores in unflinching detail the monstrous patterns, sadistic compulsions, and depraved motives of serial killers. From the Lonely Hearts Killer who hunted the most desperate of women in 1950s America to such infamous symbols of evil as Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, and John Gacy, these are the cases--horrifying, graphic and unforgettable--that Keppel ingeniously taps to shed light on the darkest corners of the pathological mind.
D. Kim Rossmo is the Detective Inspector in charge of the Vancouver Police Department's Geographic Profiling Section. Over the course of his 20-year policing career, he has worked assignments in organized crime intelligence, emergency response, patrol, crime prevention, and community liaison. He has appeared on NBC's "Dateline," the BBC, and CBC, and is featured by name as the investigator in Burnt Bones, the latest novel in the bestselling Michael Slade series.
