
Criminal Profiling
How Psychological Profiling Helps Solve True Crimes
Amber Books (Publisher)
Published on 14. September 2022
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-83886-220-6 (ISBN)
Description
Is there such a thing as a criminal type? Are criminals born genetically predisposed to commit crimes, or are they fashioned by their circumstances? Physicians, psychologists and criminologists have been asking these questions for many centuries, without finding a definitive answer.
Criminal Profiling is packed with intriguing case histories that demonstrate the variety, sophistication and effectiveness of criminal profiling. The book includes chapters on the search for the criminal personality, early criminal profiling and the latest theories of criminality, and features the stories of Ted Bundy, Peter Sutcliffe and Andrei Chikatilo, among many others.
Illustrated with 200 colour and black-and-white photographs, Criminal Profiling is a wide-ranging, authoritative history of this fascinating subject, from the first efforts at physical profiling to today's computer-generated geographic mapping techniques.
Criminal Profiling is packed with intriguing case histories that demonstrate the variety, sophistication and effectiveness of criminal profiling. The book includes chapters on the search for the criminal personality, early criminal profiling and the latest theories of criminality, and features the stories of Ted Bundy, Peter Sutcliffe and Andrei Chikatilo, among many others.
Illustrated with 200 colour and black-and-white photographs, Criminal Profiling is a wide-ranging, authoritative history of this fascinating subject, from the first efforts at physical profiling to today's computer-generated geographic mapping techniques.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Amber Books Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Interest Age: From 18 to 99 years
Product notice
With printed dust jacket
Illustrations
Index; Halftones, color; Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 208 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
1065 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83886-220-6 (9781838862206)
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06/2024
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Persons
Brian Innes trained as a scientist and worked as a biochemical researcher before turning to writing. He published a large number of articles and books on forensic science. He died in 2014. Lucy Doncaster is the editor and author of numerous history and popular science books, with topics ranging from greatest mysteries of the unexplained, Churchill's army and the history of the world to DNA, big data, and deep space.
Content
Contents
Introduction
The Search for the Criminal Personality
The Psychologists Investigate
Whoever Fights Monsters
A System of Identification
The Intuitive Approach to Crime Analysis
Behavioural Evidence Analysis
Geographic Profiling
The Criminal World
Modern Theories of Criminality
Negotiation and Interrogation
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
The Search for the Criminal Personality
The Psychologists Investigate
Whoever Fights Monsters
A System of Identification
The Intuitive Approach to Crime Analysis
Behavioural Evidence Analysis
Geographic Profiling
The Criminal World
Modern Theories of Criminality
Negotiation and Interrogation
Bibliography
Index