Criminal Psychology and Forensic Technology: A Collaborative Approach to Effective Profiling

by Godwin; Grover Maurice

• ISBN13: 9780849323584
• ISBN10: 0849323584
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-29
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

Offender profiling has been developing slowly as a possible investigative tool since 1841 and the publication of Edgar Allen Poe's The Murder in the Rue Morgue. In this book, detective C. Auguste Dupin demonstrates the ability to follow the thought patterns of a companion while they stroll through Paris for 15 minutes without speaking a word. Today profiling is an important investigative tool. Nevertheless, it often represents a less than educated attempt to provide law enforcement agencies with detailed information about the behavior of an unknown individual who has committed a crime. Criminal Psychology and Forensic Technology: A Collaborative Approach to Effective Profiling introduces alternative approaches to improving the way crimes are investigated and offender profiles are generated. It shows forensic evidence experts how to work with profilers to combine discrete data into a more meaningful picture. The contributors address both their own specialty, such as anthropology, and then demonstrate how working in conjunction with criminal psychologists can provide more effective offender profiles.This book is unique in that it provides you with an array of articles that fuse aspects of criminal psychology and several forensic science methods in a collaborative effort to improve profiling. Written in a format that is simple and straightforward, it utilizes actual case studies to show how specific procedures relate to police investigations.The only book on the market that shows a team approach to criminal profiling, Criminal Psychology and Forensic Technology: A Collaborative Approach to Effective Profiling is a reference perfect for students interested in learning criminal profiling techniques and professionals wishing to sharpen their skills. Whatever your reason for choosing this book, it will enlighten you about alternative investigative tools.

Author Biography

Thomas W. Adair is a senior laboratory technician at Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office, Littleton, Colorado. He is also employed in the Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado Jonathan D. Alston holds an M.A. degree in criminology from Simon Fraser University in Canada. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in criminology at The University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Michael D. Biderman is assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He has special interests in computer analysis, mathematical models, and multivariate scaling techniques Carl E. Booth earned a B.S. degree in psychology from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and has been a detective with the Chattanooga Police Department since 1968. Detective Booth is also a consultant with Police Research Consultants Lynn Barkley Burnett is a health science professor, medical educator, and clinical ethicist. He has served as the medical advisor to the Fresno County Sheriff's Department for more than two decades. Dr. Burnett has been a participant in numerous suspicious death investigations and hundreds of forensic autopsies, and has presented papers at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences examining homicide and sudden death David Canter is professor of psychology at the University of Liverpool, where he is director of the Investigative Psychology program Stephen Coleman is a fellow of the Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics and a lecturer in ethics at Charles Stuart University's School of Police Studies, New South Wales Margaret Cox is a reader in archaeological sciences in the School of Conservation Sciences at Bournemouth University, England. She is the course leader in the master of science degree in Forensic Archaeology. She is a senior archaeologist at Gifford and Partners Andrew Day is a clinical and forensic psychologist currently working for the National Health Service in the U.K. He has previously worked in a number of forensic settings, including the prison service in both the U.K. and Australia, and in an offender treatment unit Kriss A. Drass is a professor of criminal justice at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Charles Frost is professor emeritus of justice systems at Truman State University (Kirksville, Missouri) and visiting associate professor of criminal justice at Westfield (MA) State College Edward J. Green is professor and head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Andrew F. Hayes earned his Ph.D. in social psychology from Cornell University in 1996. He is currently a research statistician at the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College Tom Henderson is a senior registrar in psychiatry at Greater Glasgow Community and Mental Health Services, NHS Trust Terry Hutter is a geoscientist specializing in palynology, paleontology, and visual organic geochemistry. Dr. Hutter holds a Ph.D. in geology and palynology from Greenwich University. He is president of T.H. Geological Services, Inc., Sand Springs, Oklahoma Harvey Irwin is an associate professor of psychology at the University of New England, Australia, where he teaches a course in psychopathology Tim Jordan is a lecturer in sociology at Open University in England Brian Kidd is a consultant psychiatrist, Community Addiction Service, Bellsdyke Hospital, Central Scotland Health Care Richard N. Kocsis is a lecturer in violent crime investigation at the New South Wales Police Academy, Charles Stuart University. He is also unit chief of the Criminal Profiling Research Unit Gordon Meyer began researching the computer underground in the mid 1980s. Today, Gordon lives in the Silicon Valley where he works as a human interface designer for a well-known computer company Terance D. Miethe is a professor of criminal justice at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Ronald Nunn has been an officer in the New South Wales police service for the past 39 years. He is commander of the New England area command Brodie Paterson is a lecturer at Forth Valley Campus, Stirling University, Scotland Cameron Stark is a consultant in public health medicine in Scotland Paul Taylor is a lecturer in sociology at the University of Salford in England Arvind Verma holds a Ph.D. in criminology. Before joining the faculty at Indiana University, Professor Verma was a senior officer of the Indian Police Service. He served for 17 years in various capacities in law enforcement Paul Whetham is a lecturer for the counseling program at the University of South Australia. He is a qualified clinical psychologist and has previously worked in social welfare settings and with young offenders in residential settings

Table of Contents

Forensic Science and Criminal Investigations	1	(41)
Forensic Archeology: A United Kingdom Perspective	1	(14)
Palynology: A New Tool for the Forensic Investigator	15	(14)
Forensic Entomology: A Valuable Resource for Death Investigation	29	(12)
Criminal Profiling: from Art to Science	41	(64)
Criminal Intelligence-The Vital Resource: An Overview	41	(8)
Construction of Offender Profiles Using Fuzzy Logic	49	(12)
Reliability, Validity, and Utility of Extant Serial Murderer Classification	61	(18)
Criminal Psychology Profiling in Violent Crime Investigations: A Comparative Assessment of Accuracy	79	(26)
Classifying Crime Scene Behavior: New Directions	105	(72)
Exploring the Social Context of Instrumental and Expressive Homicides: An Application of Qualitative Comparative Analysis	105	(20)
Death by Detail: A Multivariate Model of U.S. Serial Murderers' Crime Scene Actions	125	(28)
Cluster Analysis of Burglars' Modus Operandi (M/O)	153	(24)
Profiling and Linking Crimes	177	(30)
One Offender-Five Victims: Linking the Offenses of the Serial Killer John Williams	177	(16)
Nurses Who Kill: Serial Murder in Health Care Institutions	193	(6)
Weaknesses in Computerized Linking Data Bases	199	(8)
Cyber-Crimes	207	(24)
Hackers, Phreakers, and Pirates: The Semantics of the Computer Underground	207	(6)
Sociology of Hackers	213	(18)
Psycho-Geographical Profiling	231	(72)
The Serial Rapist's Pattern of Target Selection	231	(20)
Victim Target Networks as Solvability Factors in Serial Murder	251	(8)
Encounter and Death: The Spatial Behavior of U.S. Serial Killers	259	(16)
Geographical Profiling	275	(14)
A Psycho-Geographical Profile of a Series of Unsolved Murders in Raleigh, North Carolina	289	(14)
Ethics in Profiling	303
The Role of Ethics in Criminal Profiling	303
Ethics and Forensic Psychology	311
The Unexplored Ethics of Criminal Psychological Profiling	323