Table of Contents

1. A History of Criminal Profiling
2. Inductive Criminal Profiling
3. Deductive Criminal Profiling
4. Case Assessment
5. An Introduction to Crime Reconstruction
6. Evidence Dynamics
7. Wound Pattern Analysis
8. Victimology
9. The Psychological Autopsy
10. False Reports
11. Crime Scene Characteristics
12. Organized vs. Disorganized - A False Dichotomy
13. Understanding Modus Operandi
14. Staged Crime Scenes
15. Understanding Offender Signature
16. Criminal Motivation
17. Offender Characteristics
18. Criminal Profiling in Court
19. Fire and Explosives: Behavioral Aspects
20. Psychopathic Behavior
21. Sadistic Behavior
22. Domestic Homicides
23. Sexual Asphyxia
24. Stalking
25. Serial Homicide
26. Sadistic Rape
27. Cyberpatterns: Criminal Behavior on the Internet
28. Ethics and the Criminal Profiler
Appendix I: The Academy of Behavioral Profiling: Criminal Profiling Guidelines
Appendix II: The Estate of Samuel H. Sheppard v. Ohio
Criminal Profiling in the Death of Marilyn Reese Sheppard
Appendix III: Threshold Assessment: Wisconsin v. John Maloney
Post Conviction Review of an Alleged Arson-Murder
Appendix IV: Threshold Assessment: Leanne S. Holland, Homicide
Post Conviction Review of Child Sexual Homicide in Australia
Appendix V: Threshold Assessment: Illinois v. Gerald Simonson
Post Conviction Review of a Sexual Homicide
Appendix VI: Linkage Analysis: California v. Wayne Adam Ford
Post Conviction Review of an Alleged Arson-Murder
Glossary

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A unique approach - centred on the author's Deductive Profiling method
The work addresses related issues, such as ethics, clinical perspectives and the essential role of the task force
Written in a style accessible to a wide audience - from the detective performing hands-on casework to the academic in the classroom
Ideal text for courses on criminal profiling or investigative strategy in serial crime and as a supplement to courses involving criminology, arson, stalking, sex crimes or death investigation.

About the Author

Brent Turvey, PhD is the author of Criminal Profiling: An Introduction to Behavioral Evidence Analysis, 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Editions (1999, 2002, 2008, 2011); co- author of the Rape Investigation Handbook, 1st and 2nd Editions (2004, 2011), Crime Reconstruction 1st and 2nd Editions (2006, 2011), Forensic Victimology (2008) and Forensic Fraud (2013) - all with Elsevier Science. He hold an MS in Forensic Science and a PhD in Criminology. He is a full partner, Forensic Scientist, Criminal Profiler, and Instructor with Forensic Solutions, LLC, and The Forensic Criminology Institute.
Dr. Turvey also maintains a caseload of femicides (e.g., sexual homicides, gender motivated homicides), pre-femicidal violence, trafficking, and human rights cases in Latin America. Many of these are related to drug trafficking and human trafficking. This involves the implementation of the UN Model Protocol for Femicide Investigation in Latin America, with The Forensic Criminology Institute’s Behavioral Science Lab (BSL). In operation since 2019, the BSL collaborates with USAID, The United Nations, and The Attorney Generals Office in Bogota DC, providing international support and training to attorneys , investigators and forensic professionals.

Reviews

from:Praise for the First Edition
"This text documents the principles of proper criminal profiling and undertakes to establish definite criteria for professionalization...should be reviewed by anyone intent on becoming a professional criminal profiler." --AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY

"...a thorough grounding in what is a relatively new field. This is more than a basic text and...should be required reading for all criminal investigators." --CRIME AND JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL

"...an important contribution to the systematic study of the behavioural evidence linked to the perpetration of serious crimes...Brent Turvey's opus is a major and much needed step toward professionalism [of criminal profiling.]" --THE EXPERT