Offender Profiling and Crime Analysis

Informationen zum Autor Peter Ainsworth Klappentext This book provides a highly readable account of offender profiling. It presents an overview of profiling techniques, and offers insights into the various approaches to profiling and schools of thought which have emerged. Zusammenfassung This book provides a highly readable account of offender profiling. It presents an overview of profiling techniques, and offers insights into the various approaches to profiling and schools of thought which have emerged. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction  1. Offender profiling ¿ separating myth from reality  2. Criminal behaviour and its motivation  3. Environmental influences and patterns of offending  4. Problems and pitfalls in the gathering of data  5. Crime mapping and geographical profiling  6. Early approaches to profiling  7. Investigative psychology and the work of David Canter  8. Clinical and other approaches  9. Current developments and future prospects  10. Conclusions

Product details

• Authors: Peter Ainsworth, Ainsworth Peter
• Publisher: Willan Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9781903240212
• ISBN: 978-1-903240-21-2
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, Criminal or forensic psychology, Offenders, Offenders / Criminals