Criminal Profiling - Principles and Practice (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006)

Criminal Profiling: Principles and Practice provides a compendium of original scientific research on constructing a criminal profile for crimes that are not readily resolvable by conventional police investigative methods. Leading profiling expert Richard N. Kocsis, PhD, utilizes a distinct approach referred to as Crime Action Profiling (CAP), a technique that has its foundations in the disciplinary knowledge of forensic psychology. The initial four chapters examine the skills, accuracy, components, and processes surrounding the construction of a criminal profile. The next two chapters focus on CAP research, the methods developed for the profiling of violent crimes and describing a systematic method for the interpretation and use of the CAP models. The subsequent three chapters canvass the respective CAP studies undertaken for crimes of serial rape, serial/sexual murder, and serial arson. An explanation for how each of the models is developed is also given. The final chapters of the book are devoted to the geographical analysis of crime patterns and to a discussion of the format conventions and procedural guidelines for developing a criminal profile. Offering a scientifically grounded method for the construction of a criminal profile, Criminal Profiling: Principles and Practice provides law enforcement personnel, forensic psychologists and psychiatrists, criminologists, and forensic investigators with a step-by-step, practical guide for understanding and applying CAP techniques for the construction of a criminal profile in a systematic and replicable manner.

General

Imprint:	HumanaPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2010
First published:	2006
Authors:	Richard N Kocsis
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	274
Edition:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006
ISBN-13:	978-1-61737-689-4
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Forensic medicine
LSN:	1-61737-689-2
Barcode:	9781617376894

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