Revised edition of: Serial crime : theoretical and practical issues in behavioral profiling / Wayne Petherick, editor ; contributors, Wayne Petherick [and others]. 2nd ed.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Profiling. The evolution of criminal profiling: from Whitechapel to Quantico and beyond. Introduction -- Early beginnings -- James Brussel and forensic psychiatry -- The Federal Bureau of Investigation and crime scene analysis -- David Canter and investigative psychology -- Kim Rossmo and geographic profiling -- Brent Turvey and behavioral evidence analysis -- Induction and deduction in criminal profiling -- Behavioral consistency, the homology assumption, and the problems of induction -- Criminal profiling methods -- Georaphical profiling: from pins in maps to GIS -- The fallacy of accuracy -- Offender signature and case linkage -- Staged crime scenes-literature and types -- Investigative relevance -- Metacognition in criminal profiling -- Criminal profiling as expert evidence -- Where to from here? -- Serial crime. Serial harassment and bullying -- Serial stalking: looking for love in all the wrong places? -- Serial rape -- Understanding serial sexual murder: a biopsychosocial approach -- Serial arson -- Motivations: offender and victim perspectives.