Research Catalog

Title

Hunting serial predators : a multivariate classification approach to profiling violent behavior / Grover Maurice Godwin.

Author

Godwin, Grover Maurice.

Publication

Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, c2000.

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Description

xxxii, 310 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.

Summary

"Hunting Serial Predators: A Multivariate Classification Approach to Profiling Violent Behavior examines this new method in-depth. It presents a facet classification of serial murderers and their crime scene actions based on empirical and repeatable studies, and argues that such an empirical process to analyzing their behavior is necessary to make logical decisions on how to detect and apprehend them." "With its new, cutting-edge classification system, as well as thorough review of existing models, Hunting Serial Predators helps facilitate significant advances in homicide investigation, etiology, and treatment."--Jacket.

Subject

• Criminal behavior > United States
• Criminal behavior, Prediction of > United States
• Criminals > United States > Classification
• Criminology
• Forecasting > methods
• Homicide > psychology
• Multivariate Analysis
• Serial murderers > United States > Psychology

Genre/Form

Classification

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-297) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Motives For Murder: What Differentiates Killers? -- 2. Reliability, Validity, and Utility of Extant Serial Murderer Classifications -- 3. A Thematic Facet Model of Serial Murder -- 4. Research Objectives -- 5. Data Acquisition and Content Analysis -- 6. Research Design and Methodology -- 7. Descriptive Statistics of Victims -- 8. Descriptive Statistics of Offenders -- 9. Elements of Crime Scene Behavior -- 10. Smallest Space Analysis (SSA-I) of Crime Scene Behaviors -- 11. Partial Order Scalogram Analysis of Crime Scene Behaviors -- 12. Consistency in Serial Murderers and Their Crime Scene Behaviors -- 13. Modeling Crime Scene Behavior and Background Characteristics -- 14. Applications To Police Investigations -- 15. General Discussion and Conclusions -- App. A. Crime Scene Variables -- App. B. Victim and Offender Background Characteristics.

ISBN

0849313988 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^99031298^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library