Table of Contents

Profiling Crimes of Violence.- Homicidal Syndromes.- Offender Profiles and Crime Scene Patterns in Belgian Sexual Murders.- Profiling Sexual Fantasy.- Murder by Manual and Ligature Strangulation.- Criminal Propensity and Criminal Opportunity.- New Techniques and Applications.- Case Linkage.- Predicting Offender Profiles From Offense and Victim Characteristics.- Criminal Profiling in a Terrorism Context.- Geographic Profiling of Terrorist Attacks.- Legal and Policy Considerations for Criminal Profiling.- Criminal Profiling as Expert Evidence?.- Criminal Profiling.- The Phenomenon of Serial Murder and the Judicial Admission of Criminal Profiling in Italy.- Criminal Profiling and Public Policy.- The Observations of the French Judiciary.- The Image of Profiling.- Critiques and Conceptual Dimensions to Criminal Profiling.- Contemporary Problems in Criminal Profiling*.- Fine-Tuning Geographical Profiling.- Skills and Accuracy in Criminal Profiling*.- Investigative Experience and Profile Accuracy.- Schools of Thought Related to Criminal Profiling.

Reviews

From the reviews: "Criminal Profiling: International Theory, Research and Practice, is a compilation of scholarly works by some 30 contributors from around the globe. … The book contains a mix of both interesting and insightful chapters … . this book may be of interest to those looking for international grounding or to academics looking for avenues for future research. Richard Kocsis should be commended on his continued efforts to lend scientific rigour to a field that is often a difficult research subject." (Melissa Martineau, Canadian Society of Forensic Science, May, 2008) "Richard Kocsis presents us with a balanced, thoughtful, and insightful collection of papers dealing with the state of the art in criminal profiling at this point in time, along with suggestions about where future research needs to go. … In summary, this is a very intriguing and thoughtful book that has some excellent and very thought-provoking chapters. … this book is an excellent contribution to what is often a very misrepresented field." (David L. Shapiro, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 53 (15), 2008) "This book describes criminal profiling from the perspective of authors from many different countries. … The book is intended as a reference for forensic scientists, consultant forensic psychologists, and students. … deals with a broad spectrum of issues in the field of criminal profiling from an international perspective. It is full of research that links theory to practice. … is really for serious students of criminology. … enhanced by the contributions of authors from many different countries, providing cross-cultural comparisons." (Gary B Kaniuk, Doody’s Review Service, November, 2007)