Criminal profiling: developing an effective science and practice
The report provides a comprehensive review and critique of the state of criminal profiling today. It finds the practice to be an art more than an established science, lacking clear links among crime scene evidence and offender motives, personality, and behavior. With no firm scientific basis for their judgments, profilers differ in their conclusions and recommendations, rendering profiling problematic as a law enforcement tool. This problem is then discussed, as is the possible ways that a scie…
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- Full title :Criminal profiling : developing an effective science and practice / Scotia J. Hicks, Bruce D. Sales.
Summary
The report provides a comprehensive review and critique of the state of criminal profiling today. It finds the practice to be an art more than an established science, lacking clear links among crime scene evidence and offender motives, personality, and behavior. With no firm scientific basis for their judgments, profilers differ in their conclusions and recommendations, rendering profiling problematic as a law enforcement tool. This problem is then discussed, as is the possible ways that a science of profiling might be constructed and tested.
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- Publication Date:©2006.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):American psychological Association
- Place of Publication:Washington (D.C.)
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2006.
Notes
Bibliogr. p. 259-272.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 v. (X-293 p.) ; : 26 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1591473926, 9781591473923
- oclc:ocn470802719
- LC Classification:HV8073.5
- Dewey Decimal:363.25/8
Table of Contents
The roots of modern profiling -- Profiling today -- Current non-scientific models of profiling -- Problems with non-scientific profiling models -- The current model of scientific profiling -- Problems with the scientific model of profiling -- The future of profiling -- From goals to theory -- Crime scene evidence -- Offender characteristics : the constructs of motives, personality and behavior -- Motive and behavior -- Personality and behavior -- A scientific model of profiling -- Steps toward testing a scientific model of profiling -- Conclusion: recommendations for practice.
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