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Criminal profiling : developing an effective science and practice / Scotia J. Hicks, Bruce D. Sales.
Van Pelt Library HV8073.5 .H53 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hicks, Scotia J.
- Series:
- Law and public policy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criminal behavior, Prediction of.
- Criminal investigation--Psychological aspects.
- Criminal investigation.
- Physical Description:
- x, 293 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [2006]
- Summary:
- The authors painstakingly critique the state of criminal profiling today and find the practice of criminal profiling to be an art more than an established science, lacking clear links among crime scene evidence and offender motives, personality, and behavior.
- Contents:
- The roots of modern profiling
- Profiling today
- Current nonscientific models of profiling
- Problems with nonscientific profiling models
- The current model of scientific profiling
- Problems with the scientific model of profiling
- The future of profiling
- From goals to theory
- Crime scene evidence
- Offender characteristics : the constructs of motives, personality, and behavior
- Motive and behavior
- Personality and behavior
- A scientific model of profiling
- Steps toward testing a scientific model of profiling
- Conclusion: recommendations for practice.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-272) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1591473926
- OCLC:
- 61500015
- Publisher Number:
- 9781591473923
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