An edition of Offender profiling and crime analysis
(2001)
Offender profiling and crime analysis
by Peter B. Ainsworth
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1 Offender profiling - separating myth from reality
Is there consensus on what constitutes profiling?
What does profiling involve?
What do 'profiles' look like?
Can the goals of profiling be identified?
Are there different kinds of profiling?
What knowledge do profilers need?
Concluding comments
Further reading
2 Criminal behaviour and its motivation
Explanations of criminal behaviour
Genetic and individual factors
Twin studies
Family influences
Personality theories
Social learning theories
Concluding comments
Further reading
3 Environmental influences and patterns of offending
The influence of the environment
Defensible space
Is the environment entirely deterministic?
Modern housing and its possible effects
People's needs and environmental provision
Designing environments which might reduce
crime levels
Situational crime prevention
Crime displacement
Environmental effects on target selection
Is crime 'normal?
Repeat victimisation
Concluding comments
Further reading
4 Problems and pitfalls in the gathering of data
The reporting and recording of offences
False reporting of 'crimes'
How can we know how much crime is committed?
Police recording of crime
Other ways in which biases may be produced
Human perception and memory
The interviewing of suspects
Concluding comments
Further reading
5 Crime mapping and geographical profiling
The geography of crime
The Chicago School
The importance of place
Crime hot spots
Combining geographical and temporal information
on crime
Is such information useful?
Problems and difficulties with geographic profiling
Concluding comments
Further reading
6 Early approaches to profiling
The development of the FBI's first profiling system
Other classifications - selfish v unselfish rapists
Further classification of rapists
What functions might categorisation have?
How useful is the FBI's approach?
Concluding comments
Further reading
7 Investigative psychology and the work of David Canter
The psychological underpinnings of Canter's work
Canter's work on crime locations
Concluding comments
Further reading
8 Clinical and other approaches
The Dutch approach to profiling
Contributions from forensic psychiatry and clinical
psychology
The work of Paul Britton
Comparing different approaches to profiling
Concluding comments
Further reading
9 Current developments and future prospects
Canter's more recent work
Other recent British work
Stalking
Concluding comments
Further reading
Conclusions
How useful is offender profiling?
References
Index.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-194) and index.
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