Applied criminal profiling: an introduction -- Criminal profiling: fraud and failures -- Behavioral evidence analysis: basic protocols for the criminal profiler -- The IAFC criminal profiler professional certification act -- Using a cold homicide case to teach criminal profiling -- Mexico: criminal profiling and forensic criminology -- Portugal: applications of behavioral evidence analysis and forensic criminology -- Colombia: criminal profiling applications -- Threshold assessments -- Equivocal death analysis -- Investigating staged crime scenes -- Investigating fetish burglaries -- Applied crime scene analysis -- Examining allegations of sexual assault -- Examining sexual homicides -- Applied case linkage analysis -- Criminal profiling and crime scene analysis in postconviction review
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"The criminal profiling community can easily be split into two separate groups: those that have written criminal profiles and those that have not. It is an important distinction, because report writing is one of the most important requirements of good scientific practice. The process of writing up findings helps to reveal flaws in an examiner's logic so that they can be amended or revisited; the final report memorializes findings and their underlying basis at a fixed point in time; and as a document a forensic report provides the best mechanism for transparency and peer review. The problem is that many criminal profilers have not written criminal profiles, and still more prefer that this remain the case, often to conceal their lack of methodology"--Back cover