| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 273 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Book Cover -- Title -- Contributors -- Part I. : Professionalizing the process -- 1. Taming the beast: The UK approach to the management of behavioural investigative advice -- 2. What Behavioural Investigative Advisers actually do -- 3. BIA support to investigative decision making -- 4. Pragmatic solutions to offender profiling and behavioural investigative advice -- 5. The cognitive expertise of Behavioural Investigative Advisers in the UK and Germany -- 6. The cognitive expertise of Geographic Profilers -- 7. Familial DNA prioritization -- 8. Child pornography offenders: Towards an evidenced-based approach to prioritizing the investigation of indecent image offences -- Part II. : Professionalizing the product -- 9. What do Senior Investigating Police Officers want from Behavioural Investigative Advisers? -- 10. Interpreting claims in offender profiles: The role of probability phrases, base-rates and rerceived dangerousness -- 11. Stereotyping, congruence and presentation order: Interpretative biases in utilizing offender profiles -- 12. An evaluation and comparison of claims made in behavioural investigative advice reports compiled by the National Policing Improvement Agency in the United KingdomConclusions and next steps |
| Summary |
Offender profiling is now viewed as an integral part of serious crime investigations by many law enforcement agencies across the world and continues to attract a high public and media profile. Despite almost three decades of research and developments in the field, the public impression of offender profiling is still influenced by misleading media portrayals, which fail to acknowledge the significant developments in theory, research and practice.This book is the only book on the market to illustrate in detail the actual practice of Behavioural Investigative Advice, its diversit |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Criminal psychology.
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Criminal behavior, Prediction of.
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Criminal profilers.
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Criminal investigation -- Psychological aspects
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LAW -- Forensic Science.
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Criminal behavior, Prediction of
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Criminal investigation -- Psychological aspects
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Criminal profilers
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Criminal psychology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Alison, Laurence J.
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Rainbow, Lee.
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| ISBN |
9780415668781 |
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0415668786 |
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9780415668798 |
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0415668794 |
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9780203809259 |
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0203809254 |
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9781136674181 |
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1136674187 |
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9781136674136 |
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1136674136 |
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9781136674174 |
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1136674179 |
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