Main description:

In this book, renowned profiler Dr. Richard Kocsis presents a distinct approach to profiling called Crime Action Profiling or CAP. The volume explains the scope and methodology employed in the studies that the author has undertaken over the past decade and a half. CAP adopts the view that profiling essentially represents a psychological technique that has its foundations in the disciplinary knowledge of forensic psychology.

Contents:

Dedication

Preface

List of Contributors

Table of Contents

Section (I) Profiling crimes of violence

1/ Homicidal syndromes: A clinical psychiatric perspective.
George B. Palermo

2/ Offender profiles and crime scene patterns in Belgian sexual murders.
Fanny Gerard, Christian Mormont and Richard N. Kocsis

3/ Profiling sexual fantasy: Fantasy in sexual offending and the implications for criminal profiling.
Dion Gee and Aleksandra Belofastov

4/ Murder by manual and ligature strangulation: Profiling crime scene behaviors and offender characteristics.
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5/ Criminal propensity and criminal opportunity: An investigation of crime scene behavior of sexual aggressors of women.
Eric Beauregard, Patrick Lussier and Jean Proulx

Section (II) New techniques and applications

6/ Case linkage: Identifying crimes committed by the same offender.
Jessica Woodhams, Ray Bull and Clive R. Hollin

7/ Predicting offender profiles from offense and victim characteristics.
David P. Farrington and Sandra Lambert

8/ Criminal profiling in a terrorism context.
Geoff Dean

9/ Geographic profiling of terrorist attacks.
Craig Bennell and Shevaun Corey

Section (III) Legal and policy considerations to criminal profiling

10/ Criminal profiling as expert evidence: An international case law perspective.
Caroline B. Meyer

11/ Criminal profiling: Impact on mock juror decision making and implications for admissibility.
Anne Marie R. Paclebar, Bryan Myers and Jocelyn Brineman

12/ The phenomenon of serial murder and the judicial admission of criminal profiling in Italy.
Anglo Zappala and Dario Bosco

13/ Criminal profiling and public policy.
Jeffrey B. Bumgarner

14/ The observations of the French judiciary: A critique of the French Ministry of Justice policy report into criminal analysis.
LaurentMontet
15/ The image of profiling: Media treatment and general impressions.
James S. Herndon

Section (IV) Critiques and conceptual dimensions to criminal profiling

16/ Contemporary problems facing criminal profiling.
Richard N. Kocsis and George B. Palermo

17/ Fine-Tuning geographical profiling.
Jasper J. van der Kemp and Peter J. van Koppen

18/ Skills and accuracy in criminal profiling.
Richard N. Kocsis

19/ Investigative experience and profile accuracy: A replication study.
David Gogan

20/ Ideological schools of thought to criminal profiling.
Richard N. Kocsis