The majority of the available published accounts of serial murderers are not in scholarly or technical publications. Even such few academic reviews as do exist typically commence with reference to fictional accounts so that the profile of a serial murderer is typically far from clear or precise.
Hunting Serial Predators is unique in that each chapter, written in detail, explains how to research and interpret, psychologically, the crime scene actions of serial killers. The book provides the reader an empirical facet model of the crime scene actions of American serial murderers based on information available to a police inquiry; an overview of the related scientific knowledge, introducing a new method to classify the serial predator, and accounts of the process and difficulties of profiling the serial murderer.
By presenting a classification model of serial murderers and their crime scene behaviors based on empirical and repeatable studies, this book makes significant advances in the areas of police investigations, etiology, and treatment possible.
The empirical process used to analyze serial murderers' crime scene actions described in Hunting Serial Predators makes it possible to make logical decisions about how to detect, apprehend, and eventually access their dangerousness.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
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978-1-315-89414-0 (9781315894140)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
1. Motives For Murder: What Differentiates Killers 2. Reliability, Validity, and Utility of Extant Serial Murderer Classification 3. A Thematic Facet Model of Serial Murder 4. Research Objectives 5. Data Acquisition and Content Analysis 6. Research Design and Methodology 7. Descriptive Statistics of Victims 8. Descriptive Statistics of Offenders 9. Elements of Crime Scene Behavior 10. Smallest Space Analysis (SSA-I) of Crime Scene Behaviors 11. Partial Order Scalogram Analysis of Crime Scene Behaviors 12. Consistency in Serial Murderers and Their Crime Scene Behaviors 13. Modeling Crime Scene Behavior and Background Characteristics 14. Applications To Police Investigations 15. General Discussion and Conclusions