David Canter, Donna Youngs

Principles of Geographical Offender Profiling

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Geographical Profiling (GP) is the name that has emerged for the examination of where offences take place and the use of that examination to formulate views on the nature of the offender and where s/he might be based. This book brings together a cross-section of the major papers published in the field.

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Examining Geographical Offender Profiling (GOP) and all that it encompasses, this book brings together a cross-section of the major papers published in the field with an introduction that puts the papers into an overall context and a concluding extensive bibliography of the publications relevant to this rapidly growing area.

Produktdetails

• Psychology, Crime and Law
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 219mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 536g
• ISBN-13: 9780754625490
• ISBN-10: 0754625494
• Artikelnr.: 26450417

Autorenporträt

David Canter is Professor of Psychology, University of Huddersfield, UK. He is editor of the International Library of Psychology and the Offender Profiling series, and is one of the leading experts in the field of criminal profiling. Donna Youngs is Research Fellow at the International Centre for Investigative Psychology and Vice-President of the International Academy for Investigative Psychology.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface; Geographical offender profiling: origins and principles,
David Canter and Donna Youngs. Part 1 Spatial Patterns in Behaviour:
Navigational ideas and the Yorkshire Ripper investigation, Stuart S. Kind;
Excerpt from:On the Mode of Communication of Cholera, John Snow; Home-range
and movements of leopards (Panthera pardus) on a livestock ranch in Kenya,
F Mitzutani and P.A. Jewell; Notes on the geometry of crime, Patricia L.
Brantingham and Paul J. Brantingham. Part 2 Offenders' Geography:
Delinquency and distance, Stanley Turner; Crime and mobility: an empirical
study, William M. Rhodes and Catherine Conly; Place, space and police
investigations: hunting serial violent criminals, D. Kim Rossmo; The 'road
to nowhere': the evidence for travelling criminals, Paul Wiles and Andrew
Costello; Distance decay re-examined, George F. Rengert, Alex R. Piquero
and Peter R. Jones. Part 3 Key Concepts in Geographical Offender Profiling:
Geographical profiling of criminals, David Canter; Identifying the
residential location of rapists, David Canter and A. Gregory; Spatial
patterns of serial murder: an analysis of disposal site location choice,
Samantha Lundrigan and David Canter; Criminals' mental maps, David Canter
and Samantha Hodge; Putting crime in its place: psychological process in
crime site selection, David Canter and Karen Shalev; Bibliography of
geographical profiling; Index.