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Criminal Profiling

An Introduction to Behavioral Evidence Analysis

  • 5th Edition - October 4, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Brent E. Turvey
  • Language: English

Criminal Profiling: An Introduction to Behavioral Evidence Analysis, Fifth Edition, maintains the same core foundation that made previous editions best sellers in the profes… Read more

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Criminal Profiling: An Introduction to Behavioral Evidence Analysis, Fifth Edition, maintains the same core foundation that made previous editions best sellers in the professional and academic community worldwide. Written for practicing behavioral analysts and aspiring students alike, this work emphasizes an honest understanding of crime and criminals. Newly updated, mechanisms for the examination and classification of both victim and offender behavior have been improved. In addition to refined approaches toward international perspectives, chapters on psychological autopsies, scene investigation reconstruction, court issues and racial profiling have also been added.

Key features

  • Outlines the scientific principles and practice standards of BEA-oriented criminal profiling, with an emphasis on applying theory to real cases
  • Contains contributions from law enforcement, academia, mental health fields, and forensic science communities
  • Includes a complete glossary of terms, along with an instructor website and student companion site

Readership

Primary: Advanced undergraduate and post-graduate students in forensic science programs; criminal profiling, psychology, sociology programs.Secondary: Practicing forensic scientists, forensic practitioners, law enforcement and legal practitioners.

Table of contents

Section 1: An Intro to Criminal Profiling

1. A History of Criminal Profiling

2. Criminal Profiling: Science, Logic, and Cognition

3. Alternative Methods of Criminal Profiling

4. Forensic Psychology, Forensic Psychiatry and Criminal Profiling

5. Applied Behavioral Evidence Analysis: International Perspectives

Section 2: Forensic Victimology

6. Forensic Victimology

7. Sexual Deviance

8. Sexual Asphyxia

9. False Allegations

10. Psychological Autopsies

Section 3: Crime Scene Analysis

11. Crime Scene Investigation and Reconstruction

12. Crime Scene Analysis

13. Crime Scene Characteristics

14. Cyberpatterns: Criminal Behavior on the Internet

15. Fire and Explosives: Behavioral Aspects

16. Case Linkage

Section 4: Offender Characteristics

17. Interpreting Offender Motive

18. Psychopathic and Sadistic Behavior at the Crime Scene

19. Offender Characteristics: Rendering a Criminal Profile

20. Examining Mass Homicide

21. Serial Cases

22. An Introduction to Terrorism

Section 5: Professional Issues

23. Criminal Profiling in Court

24. Criminal Profiling: Post-Graduate Education and Certification

25. Criminal Profiling: Ethical Standards and Practice

26. Racial Profiling

Product details

  • Edition: 5
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 4, 2022
  • Language: English

About the author

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Brent E. Turvey

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.
Affiliations and expertise
MS in Forensic Science and a PhD in Criminology; Forensic Scientist, Criminal Profiler, and Instructor with Forensic Solutions, LLC, and The Forensic Criminology Institute, USA

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