Criminal Profiling
How Psychological Profiling Helps Solve True Crimes
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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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Criminal Profiling: How Psychological Profiles Help Solve Crime by Brian Innes and Lucy Doncaster is a very engrossing introduction into the many types of Profiling used to track, capture and convict the guilty criminals. So many different types of profiling are examined, providing both the positive and negative areas of each effort. It is surprising to discover how far criminal profiling has evolved in the past century and exciting to see the new techniques just being tested. From psychological profiling to geographical profiling and beyond, this book will keep you reading well past your bedtime. The case studies of how certain profiling styles helped catch famous killers, rapists and more, certainly helps in understanding scientific principles brought to light.
Although some of the terminology was difficult to grasp, each chapter was extremely fun and informative. I highly recommend Criminal Profiling for anyone with an interest in how the world seeks its worst offenders.