Criminal Profiling: An Introduction to Behavioral Evidence Analysis / Edition 5

by Brent E. Turvey

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128155837
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	10/10/2022
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	920
Product dimensions:	7.70(w) x 9.40(h) x 1.90(d)

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword     ix
Preface     xvii
Acknowledgments     xlvii
About the Authors     xlix
A History of Criminal Profiling   Brent E. Turvey, M.S.     1
Criminal Profiling, the Scientific Method, and Logic   Wayne A. Petherick, Ph.D.   Brent E. Turvey, M.S.     43
Nomothetic Methods of Criminal Profiling   Wayne A. Petherick, Ph.D.   Brent E. Turvey, M.S.     75
Forensic Psychology, Forensic Psychiatry, and Criminal Profiling: The Mental Health Professional's Contribution to Criminal Profiling   Michael McGrath, M.D.   Angela Torres, Ph.D.     113
Behavioral Evidence Analysis: Ideo-Deductive Method of Criminal Profiling   Wayne A. Petherick, Ph.D.   Brent E. Turvey, M.S.     133
An Introduction to Crime Reconstruction   W. Jerry Chisum, B.S.   Brent E. Turvey, M.S.     155
Crime Scene Analysis   Brent E. Turvey, M.S.     187
Wound Pattern Analysis   Brent E. Turvey, M.S.     223
Staged Crime Scenes   Brent E. Turvey, M.S.     241
Criminal Motivation   Wayne A. Petherick, Ph.D.   Brent E. Turvey, M.S.     273
Case Linkage: Offender Modus Operandi and Signature   Brent E. Turvey, M.S.     309
Victimology   Wayne A. Petherick, Ph.D.   Brent E. Turvey, M.S.     357
False Reports   Brent E. Turvey, M.S.     395
The Psychological Autopsy   Dana S. La Fon, Psy.D.     419
Fire and Explosives: Behavioral Aspects   Brent E. Turvey, M.S.     431
Stalking   Wayne Petherick, Ph.D.     449
Domestic Homicide   Brent E. Turvey, M.S.     483
Mass Homicide   Brent E. Turvey, M.S.     507
Introduction to Terrorism: Understanding and Interviewing Terrorists   Brent E. Turvey, M.S.     523
Offender Characteristics: Rendering the Profile   Brent E. Turvey, M.S.     539
Psychopathy and Sadism: Interpreting Psychopathic and Sadistic Behavior in the Crime Scene   Brent E. Turvey, M.S.     569
Sexual Asphyxia   Michael McGrath, M.D.   Brent E. Turvey, M.S.     605
Serial Crime   Brent E. Turvey, M.S.     629
Cyberpatterns: Criminal Behavior on the Internet   Eoghan Casey, M.A.     669
Criminal Profiling on Trial: The Admissibility of Criminal Profiling Evidence   Craig M. Cooley, M.S., J.D.     689
Ethics and the Criminal Profiler   Brent E. Turvey, M.S.     717
Index     745

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The Second Edition of this bestselling text—revised, expanded, and featuring new case examples

Editorial Reviews

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"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

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