NCJ Number
207218
Editor(s)
John H. Campbell,
Don DeNevi
Date Published
2004
Length
377 pages
Annotation
This book offers a collection of law enforcement profiling articles written between 1976 and 2004 by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) profilers and city homicide investigators.
Abstract
Intended for the general public, the chapters of this book offer critical behind-the-scenes insights into how difficult cases are solved from the perspectives of pioneers in the field of investigative analysis. Part 1 presents a collection of 11 chapters that comprise the “original behavioral science articles on criminal profiling.” Among these chapters is a description of the criminal profiling process, an exploratory study on the background characteristics of sexual murders, a comparative analysis of sexual murderers with and without sexual abuse histories, and a discussion of interviewing techniques for homicide investigations. Other chapters in part 1 offer an analysis of sexual homicide and crime scene patterns, an analysis of the structure of conscious motives for murder and what happens when the fantasy of murder is played out, and an analysis of the two personality types that commit lust murders: the organized nonsocial personality and the disorganized asocial personality. Part 2 offers 11 chapters that comprise “contemporary articles on criminal profiling.” Included in these chapters are tips on how to interview serial murderers, case studies of sexual fatalities involving suicide and murder, a description of the criminal investigative analysis process, and case analyses of 10 eye gougers. One chapter identifies a multidisciplinary approach to solving cold cases, while another chapter presents the characteristics of 128 elderly women who were murdered by 110 offenders, as well as the characteristics of their crime scenes. Other chapters in part 2 offer an update on the use of geographic profiling to spatially map crime, an analysis of the demographic characteristics of nonfamily child abductor murderers, and a definitional analysis of lethal predators. Tables, notes, references