Profiling and Serial Crime - Theoretical and Practical Issues

Informationen zum Autor 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 Profiling and Serial Crime: Theoretical and Practical Issues, now in its third edition. Klappentext Profiling and Serial Crime examines the principles of behavioral profiling and then applies them to serial crime. 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 bullying! stalking! rape! murder! and arson. The title of this edition reflects the focus on profiling as well as serial crime and has been updated throughout with the latest research. Zusammenfassung Illustrates the promise! purposes! and pitfalls of behavioral profiling in the investigation of serial crime. This edition reflects the research in criminal profiling and serial crime. It provides a theoretical and practical foundation for understanding the motivation and dynamics in a range of serial offenses.

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• Authors: Wayne Petherick, Wayne (Associate Professor of Criminology Petherick, Wayne (Bond University Petherick, Wayne (PhD Associate Professor of Criminology Faculty of Society and Design Bond University Petherick, Wayne (PhD; Associate Professor of Criminology; Faculty of Society and Design; Bond University Petherick, Wayne A. (Associate Professor of Criminology Petherick, Petherick Wayne
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.03.2013
• EAN: 9781455731749
• ISBN: 978-1-4557-3174-9
• No. of pages: 480
• Series: Anderson Publishing
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Criminal or forensic psychology, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology