Research Catalog

Title

Criminal profiling : developing an effective science and practice / Scotia J. Hicks, Bruce D. Sales.

Author

Hicks, Scotia J.

Publication

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, c2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

Sales, Bruce Dennis

Description

x, 293 p. : ill.; 27 cm.

Summary

"This book aims to transform criminal profiling into a credible science and practice that will reliably aid law enforcement investigation. Authors Scotia J. Hicks and Bruce D. Sales painstakingly critique the state of criminal profiling today and find the practice of criminal profiling 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. Criminal Profiling tackles this problem squarely, exploring in detail how a science of profiling may be constructed and tested. The comprehensive new approach offered here builds on existing practice and research and calls for empirical information that can lead to a sound new science of criminal profiling. This is the latest volume in the Law and Public Policy: Psychology and the Social Sciences series."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Law and public policy

Uniform Title

Law and public policy

Subject

• Criminal behavior, Prediction of
• Criminal investigation > Psychological aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-272) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The roots of modern profiling -- Profiling today -- Current nonscientific models of profiling -- Problems with nonscientific 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.

ISBN

• 1591473926
• 9781591473923

LCCN

^^2005026517

OCLC

• 61500015
• SCSB-13259025

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library