NCJ Number
175354
Editor(s)
D V Canter,
L J Alison
Date Published
1997
Length
569 pages
Annotation
This volume brings together publications that lay the groundwork for social science contributions to criminal detection.
Abstract
The book includes 39 articles, presented in 10 sections: The Investigation of Crime; Psychological Autopsy; Investigative Interviewing; Detecting Deception; Evaluating Testimony; Delinquents' Characteristics; Typologies of Criminals; Property Crime; Violent Crime; and Inferring Offender's From Offense Characteristics. The articles examine a variety of subjects, including: (1) certain qualities essential to an investigator; (2) the extent and nature of psychological services in police departments; (3) refining the cognitive interview; (4) towards a sociological model of the police informant; (5) differentiation of truthful and deceptive criminal suspects in behavior analysis interviews; (6) retracted confessions; (7) insurance fraud; (8) a comparison of murderers and their brothers; (9) psychological profiling; (10) the environmental range of serial rapists; (11) hunting serial violent criminals; and (12) psychic crime detectives. References, notes, figures, tables, appendixes, bibliographies, index