Applications of Geographical Offender Profiling: Psychology, Crime and Law
Autor Donna Youngs Editat de David Canteren Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 mar 2008
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780754627241
ISBN-10: 0754627241
Pagini: 274
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 153 x 219 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:New ed.
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Psychology, Crime and Law
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0754627241
Pagini: 274
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 153 x 219 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:New ed.
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Psychology, Crime and Law
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Contents: Preface; Part 1 Empirical Bases: Geographical offender profiling: applications and opportunities, David Canter and Donna Youngs; A multivariate analysis of serial murderers' disposal site location choice, Samantha Lundrigan and David Canter; Offender characteristics and spatial mobility: an empirical study and some policy implications, Thomas Gabor and Ellen Gottheil; The environmental range of serial rapists, David Canter and Paul Larkin; The road to robbery: travel patterns in commercial robberies, Peter J. van Koppen and Robert W.J. Jansen. Part 2 Stylistic Variations: Crime scene and distance correlates of serial rape, Janet Warren, Roland Reboussin, Robert R. Hazelwood, Andrea Cummings, Natalie Gibbs and Susan Trumbetta; An examination of the relationship between distance travelled and motivational aspects of arson, Katarina Fritzon; The journey to rape: geographic distance and the rapist's method of approaching the victim, James L. LeBeau; Characteristics of serial arsonists and crime scene geography in Japan, Masayuki Tamura and Mamoru Suzuki. Part 3 Investigative Directions: Predicting serial killers' home base using a decision support system, David Canter, Toby Coffey, Malcolm Huntley and Christopher Missen; Linking commercial burglaries by modus operandi: tests using regression and ROC analysis, Craig Bennell and David Canter; Predicting home location of serial offenders: a preliminary comparison of the accuracy of human judges with a geographical profiling system, Brent Snook, David Canter and Craig Bennell; Commentary - confusing operational predicaments and cognitive explorations: comments on Rossmo and Snook, et al., David Canter; A comparison of the efficacy of different decay functions in geographical profiling for a sample of US serial killers, David Canter and Laura Hammond: Bibliography of geographical profiling; Index.
Notă biografică
David Canter is Professor of Psychology, University of Huddersfield, UK. He is editor of the International Library of Psychology and the Offender Profiling series, and is one of the leading experts in the field of criminal profiling. Donna Youngs is Research Fellow at the International Centre for Investigative Psychology and Vice-President of the International Academy for Investigative Psychology.
Descriere
This book brings together major papers published in the field of Geographical Offender Profiling to explain its scope and application in different criminal contexts. For the first time 'classic' papers have been collected together with an introduction that provides an up-to-the-minute context and an extensive bibliography.