Forensic Psychologists Casebook: Psychological profiling and criminal investigation

by Alison; Laurence

• ISBN13: 9781843921134
• ISBN10: 1843921138
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-06-01
• Publisher: Willan

Summary

Offender profiling has been used increasingly by law enforcement agencies in many parts of the world, and it has a high public and media profile. But there is often a very misleading impression of what offender profiling is about and what it can achieve, and in several high profile cases it has fallen short of the expectations many people have had of its potential in crime investigation.This book aims to address some of these misconceptions by demonstrating how forensic psychology contributes to police investigations. It provides a fascinating casebook of examples and case studies illustrating the type of information provided by forensic psychologists and behavioural advisers, backed up with a wider analysis of the theoretical context within which this needs to be understood. It seeks to provide an answer to the question, 'What do practitioners actually do when they provide advice for the police and the courts and how do they do it?'. It will be essential reading for those involved in both the provision and the use of this information, and anybody else with an interest in discovering what the work of forensic psychologists in the context of criminal investigation is really about.The Forensic Psychologist's Casebook includes contributions from a number of the UK's leading forensic psychologists, with chapters devoted to a number of well known cases, from Jack the Ripper through to the Rachel Nickell murder case.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	xiii
Preface	xix
Part One The Context of Criminal Investigation
1 From trait-based profiling to psychological contributions to apprehension methods	3	(20)
Laurence Alison
2 Jack the Ripper and the Whitechapel murders: a very Victorian critical incident	23	(24)
Jonathan Ogan and Laurence Alison
3 Psychological research and police investigations: does the research meet the needs?	47	(21)
Emma C. Barrett
4 Suspect prioritization in the investigation of sex offences: from clinical classification and profiling to pragmatism	68	(22)
Georgia Wilson and Laurence Alison
5 The range of issues in crime analysis	90	(24)
Nina Cope
6 The interpersonal dynamics of police interviewing	114	(29)
Laurence Alison and Joanne Howard
7 Policing the police: theoretical and practical contributions of psychologists to understanding and preventing corruption	143	(27)
Louise E. Porter
8 Working with the courts: advice for expert witnesses	170	(27)
David Ormerod and Jim Sturman QC
Part Two Advising on Investigations
9 Rhetorical shaping in an undercover operation: the investigation of Colin Stagg in the Rachel Nickell murder enquiry	197	(38)
Laurence Alison and David Canter
10 Guidelines for profilers	235	(43)
Laurence Alison, Alasdair Goodwill and Emily Alison
11 Assessing the reliability of interviews with vulnerable witnesses	278	(19)
Katarina Fritzon
12 Malingering or memory loss in a major collision investigation: reconstructing accounts of suspects, victims and witnesses	297	(18)
Laurence Alison
13 Suicide or murder? Implicit narratives in the Eddie Gilfoyle case	315	(19)
David Canter
14 A stalking management programme: preparing advisory material for non-psychologists	334	(34)
Emily Alison and Laurence Alison
15 Consent, inference and patterns of abuse in a case of domestic violence	368	(12)
Emily Alison and Laurence Alison
16 Conclusions: personal reflections on the last decade	380	(13)
Adrian West and Laurence Alison
Index	393