Criminal Profiling: How Psychological Profiles Help Solve Crime

Criminal Profiling: How Psychological Profiles Help Solve Crime
ISBN-10
183886220X
ISBN-13
9781838862206
Series
Criminal Profiling
Category
Psychology
Pages
256
Language
English
Published
2022-10-11
Publisher
Amber Books
Authors
Brian Innes, Lucy Doncaster

Description

Criminal Profiling is a wide-ranging, authoritative history of this fascinating subject, from the first efforts at physical profiling to today's computer-generated geographic mapping techniques. Is there such a thing as a criminal type? Are criminals born genetically predisposed to commit crimes or are they fashioned by their circumstances? Physicians, psychologists, and criminologists have been asking these questions for many centuries without finding a definitive answer. Criminal Profiling is packed with intriguing case histories that demonstrate the variety, sophistication, and effectiveness of this fascinating science. The book includes chapters on the search for the criminal personality, early criminal profiling, and the latest theories of criminality, and features the stories of serial killers Ted Bundy, Peter Sutcliffe, and Andrei Chikatilo, among many others.

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