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Offender profiling is an investigative tool used to narrow down the
range of potential suspects for a crime by predicting the
personality, behavioral, and demographic characteristics that an
offender is likely to possess, based upon information collected at
the crime scene. While offender profiling has been popularized by
TV shows and movies such as Criminal Minds, Silence of the Lambs,
and Mindhunter, the real-world impact of offender profiling is
largely unknown. This book discusses the history of offender
profiling, summarizes research on offender profiling methods, and
reviews offender profiling evaluations of accuracy and applied
impact. This book also describes a promising new offender profiling
methodology called evidence-based offender profiling. This new
method relies upon empirical data and scientific methods to
develop, evaluate, and replicate offender profiles, thereby
increasing offender profiling's accuracy and utility for active
police investigations. It uses prior information about statistical
regularities between types of offenders and types of offenses to
predict the characteristics of offenders in unsolved cases. A
discussion of the future of offender profiling research and
implications for law enforcement is also included. This book also
explains how practitioners can benefit from the use of empirically
tested and validated profiles in their unsolved investigations and
how the use, continued research, and evaluation of evidence-based
offender profiling can advance the quality, prestige, and utility
of the field of offender profiling.
This book brings together an international group of experts to
present cutting-edge psychological research on crime, policing and
courts. With contributors from the UK, Germany, Italy, Norway,
Cyprus, Israel, Canada and the USA, this volume explores some of
the most interesting and contemporary areas of criminological and
legal psychology. The Psychology of Crime, Policing and Courts is
divided into three parts. Part I explores crime and anti-social
behaviour, including the concentration of offending within
families, juvenile delinquency, adolescent bullying, cyberbullying,
violence risk assessment, and psychopathy. Part II examines
policing and the detection of deception, with chapters on
interrogational practices, police interviews of children, and
modern detection methods. Part III focuses on courts and
sentencing, with chapters exploring wrongful convictions, the role
of juries, extra-legal factors in sentencing decisions and an
examination of sentencing itself. Representing the forefront of
research in developmental criminology and criminological and legal
psychology, this book is a comprehensive resource for undergraduate
and postgraduate students studying psychology and criminology, with
particular value for those studying forensic psychology. This book
is also a valuable resource for psychologists, lawyers, social
scientists and law enforcement personnel.
This volume is the result of an EU project involving two different
European countries (Italy and Cyprus) on risk and needs assessment
for juvenile violent offenders. The book is based on a longitudinal
data base of juveniles who have committed violent crimes and who
have been followed up after six months to measure their recidivism
rate. The aim of this book is to provide practitioners who are
dealing with juvenile (violent) offenders, with
scientifically-based theories and knowledge derived from results
about risk assessment. In particular it shows how a newly developed
and tested instrument/approach, the EARN (European Assessment of
Risk and Needs) works and how it can be used to help practitioners.
Recidivism of violence in juveniles is based on several risk
factors and is reduced on the basis of protective factors.
Efficient legal intervention and treatment are more and more
tailored according to the risk factors but also to the needs of
juveniles. Juvenile Justice Systems in Europe tend to approach the
juvenile who has committed a crime not only from a sanction point
of view but more as an opportunity for the juvenile, his or her
family and the social context in general, to reduce the risk of
recidivism. This book will be of interest to researchers, students,
social workers, police officers and lawyers.
Offender profiling is an investigative tool used to narrow down the
range of potential suspects for a crime by predicting the
personality, behavioral, and demographic characteristics that an
offender is likely to possess, based upon information collected at
the crime scene. While offender profiling has been popularized by
TV shows and movies such as Criminal Minds, Silence of the Lambs,
and Mindhunter, the real-world impact of offender profiling is
largely unknown. This book discusses the history of offender
profiling, summarizes research on offender profiling methods, and
reviews offender profiling evaluations of accuracy and applied
impact. This book also describes a promising new offender profiling
methodology called evidence-based offender profiling. This new
method relies upon empirical data and scientific methods to
develop, evaluate, and replicate offender profiles, thereby
increasing offender profiling's accuracy and utility for active
police investigations. It uses prior information about statistical
regularities between types of offenders and types of offenses to
predict the characteristics of offenders in unsolved cases. A
discussion of the future of offender profiling research and
implications for law enforcement is also included. This book also
explains how practitioners can benefit from the use of empirically
tested and validated profiles in their unsolved investigations and
how the use, continued research, and evaluation of evidence-based
offender profiling can advance the quality, prestige, and utility
of the field of offender profiling.
This volume is the result of an EU project involving two different
European countries (Italy and Cyprus) on risk and needs assessment
for juvenile violent offenders. The book is based on a longitudinal
data base of juveniles who have committed violent crimes and who
have been followed up after six months to measure their recidivism
rate. The aim of this book is to provide practitioners who are
dealing with juvenile (violent) offenders, with
scientifically-based theories and knowledge derived from results
about risk assessment. In particular it shows how a newly developed
and tested instrument/approach, the EARN (European Assessment of
Risk and Needs) works and how it can be used to help practitioners.
Recidivism of violence in juveniles is based on several risk
factors and is reduced on the basis of protective factors.
Efficient legal intervention and treatment are more and more
tailored according to the risk factors but also to the needs of
juveniles. Juvenile Justice Systems in Europe tend to approach the
juvenile who has committed a crime not only from a sanction point
of view but more as an opportunity for the juvenile, his or her
family and the social context in general, to reduce the risk of
recidivism. This book will be of interest to researchers, students,
social workers, police officers and lawyers.
This book brings together an international group of experts to
present cutting-edge psychological research on crime, policing and
courts. With contributors from the UK, Germany, Italy, Norway,
Cyprus, Israel, Canada and the USA, this volume explores some of
the most interesting and contemporary areas of criminological and
legal psychology. The Psychology of Crime, Policing and Courts is
divided into three parts. Part I explores crime and anti-social
behaviour, including the concentration of offending within
families, juvenile delinquency, adolescent bullying, cyberbullying,
violence risk assessment, and psychopathy. Part II examines
policing and the detection of deception, with chapters on
interrogational practices, police interviews of children, and
modern detection methods. Part III focuses on courts and
sentencing, with chapters exploring wrongful convictions, the role
of juries, extra-legal factors in sentencing decisions and an
examination of sentencing itself. Representing the forefront of
research in developmental criminology and criminological and legal
psychology, this book is a comprehensive resource for undergraduate
and postgraduate students studying psychology and criminology, with
particular value for those studying forensic psychology. This book
is also a valuable resource for psychologists, lawyers, social
scientists and law enforcement personnel.
Now in its fourth edition, Psychology and Law is a comprehensive
guide to the complex interactions between psychology and criminal
law. Andreas Kapardis explores contemporary psycho-legal issues
both in and out of the courtroom, from eyewitness testimony,
investigative interviewing, jury decision making, and sentencing as
a human process, to restorative justice, terrorism, police
prejudice and offender profiling. The book draws upon sources from
Europe, North America and Australia to investigate the subjectivity
and human fallibility inherent in our systems of justice. It
suggests ways of minimising undesirable influences on judicial
decision making, and discusses procedures for dealing with
witnesses and suspects. Fully revised and with greater emphasis on
relevant law, Psychology and Law remains the leading text on legal
psychology for students and practitioners in psychology, law,
criminology, social work and law enforcement.
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