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9780754627203

Applications of Geographical Offender Profiling

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  • ISBN13:

    9780754627203

  • ISBN10:

    0754627209

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-04-28
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface
Empirical Bases
Geographical offender profiling: applications and opportunities
A multivariate analysis of serial murderers' disposal site location choice
Offender characteristics and spatial mobility: an empirical study and some policy implications
The environmental range of serial rapists
The road to robbery: travel patterns in commercial robberies
Stylistic Variations
Crime scene and distance correlates of serial rape
An examination of the relationship between distance travelled and motivational aspects of arson
The journey to rape: geographic distance and the rapist's method of approaching the victim
Characteristics of serial arsonists and crime scene geography in Japan
Investigative Directions
Predicting serial killers' home base using a decision support system
Linking commercial burglaries by modus operandi: tests using regression and ROC analysis
Predicting home location of serial offenders: a preliminary comparison of the accuracy of human judges with a geographical profiling system
Commentary - confusing operational predicaments and cognitive explorations: comments on Rossmo and Snook, et al.
A comparison of the efficacy of different decay functions in geographical profiling for a sample of US serial killers
Bibliography of geographical profiling
Index
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