This book is chiefly about the deductive profiling method developed by the author. This method differs from other forms of profiling because it centres on forensic evidence rather than relying on averaged statistical profiles. The book begins with a thorough explanation of the features of the deductive profiling method and goes on to give an overview of the legal aspects involved in profiling. Turvey also discusses the specific profiling issues that arise in different types of serial crime and his own experience in high-profile cases. This book is aimed at detectives, lawyers and clinicians.

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Criminal Psychology and Forensic Technology shows hard evidence experts how to work with profilers to combine discrete data into a more meaningful picture. The contributors address their own specialities, such as anthropology, and how working in conjunction with criminal psychologists can provide more effective offender profiles. This volume is a unique book in that it presents an array of articles that fuse aspects of criminal psychology and forensic science methods in a collaborative effort to improve profiling. Written in a simple and straightforward format, it examines alternative ways in which solving crimes can be approached as well as new research that could contribute to making profiling a science. This reference is perfect for students interested in criminal profiling techniques and professionals wishing to expend their knowledge of alternative investigative methods.

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Professor Canter describes the use of psychological techniques as the new investigative science of criminal psychological profiling. He gives an insight into Britain's most notorious serial-killer investigations and provides a unique understanding of what turns people into violent criminals.
In 1985 he was called in for the first time to help the police catch the now infamous `Railway Murderer'. As a result he provided them with the description of John Duffy, the man eventually convicted of the crimes. Canter has now been consulted in over 70 cases and his book takes the reader step by step through his new method of analysis in which the psychological traces surrounding the crime and patterns of behaviour, indicate the personality of the offender, his hobbies, his job and his address.

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This book is an introduction to geographic profiling, which is a technique for analysing the locations of a connected series of crimes to determine the most likely area of offender residence. Rossmo explains the theories behind geographic profiling before placing within the framework of criminal profiling, behavioural science, environmental criminology and the geography of crime. This book is aimed at police officers and crime analysts as well as at academic researchers so the approach is straightforward and practical examples are given.

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Offender Profiling is a set of techniques used by law enforcement agencies to try to identify perpetrators of serious crime. Profiling techniques have been used increasingly by police forces in many parts of the world, while fictional representations in films and television series like Silence of the Lambs and Cracker have generated an enormous popular fascination with the topic. Offender Profiling and Crime Analysis provides a highly readable account of the subject, and a picture of profiling which by no means accords with popular views and representations of what is involved. The book provides an overview of profiling techniques, offering some fascinating insights into the various approaches to profiling, and schools of though which have emerged, looking particularly at the work of the FBI, and British and Dutch profilers. Key themes throughout are a concern to assess whether profiling should be treated as a scientific endeavour, or merely educated guesswork; and a view that a key to an understanding of offender profiling is the need to examine the subject within a broader context of crime analysis, and a wider understanding of criminal behaviour. Particular attention is paid to methods of gathering data on offences, and in identifying the problems and pitfalls involved in this process.

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This book provides the basic elements of profiling and acquaints the reader with the general principles of profiling. The author prefers to use the term "socio-pyschological" profiling rather than psychological profiling as he believes a profile should offer more than a person's personality and includes social demographics as well.

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The editors intend this book to be used by undergraduate and graduate students who need "a comprehensive, up-to-date, and fairly high-level review of psychological theory and research bearing on the courtroom trial". It will be most useful to students and researchers within the fields of social science, forensic psychology, applied psychology, criminal psychology and law. Each chapter has been written by a behavioural scientist from within the field, and focuses solely on roles or problems that affect the courtroom. Topics include jury selection, the effect of defendants' and victims' personal characteristics on jurors' verdicts, the reliability of eyewitness testimony and the social psychology of jury deliberations and judging.

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