Hunting Serial Predators: A Multivariate Classification Approach to Profiling Violent Behavior - Rilegato

Godwin, Grover Maurice

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ISBN 10: 0849313988 ISBN 13: 9780849313981

Casa editrice: CRC Press, 1999

Riassunto

The majority of the available published accounts of serial murderers are not in scholarly or technical publications. Even such few academic reviews as do exist typically commence with reference to fictional accounts so that the profile of a serial murderer is typically far from clear or precise. Hunting Serial Predators is unique in that each chapter, written in detail, explains how to research and interpret, psychologically, the crime scene actions of serial killers. The book provides the reader an empirical facet model of the crime scene actions of American serial murderers based on information available to a police inquiry; an overview of the related scientific knowledge, introducing a new method to classify the serial predator, and accounts of the process and difficulties of profiling the serial murderer. By presenting a classification model of serial murderers and their crime scene behaviors based on empirical and repeatable studies, this book makes significant advances in the areas of police investigations, etiology, and treatment possible. The empirical process used to analyze serial murderers' crime scene actions described in Hunting Serial Predators makes it possible to make logical decisions about how to detect, apprehend, and eventually access their dangerousness.

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Contenuti

Motives For Murder: What Differentiates Killers
Reliability, Validity, and Utility of Extant Serial Murderer Classifications
A Thematic Facet Model of Serial Murder
Research Objectives
Data Acquisition and Content Analysis
Research Design and Methodology
Descriptive Statistics of Victims
Descriptive Statistics of Offenders
Elements of Crime Scene Behavior
Smallest Space Analysis (SSA-I) of Crime Scene Behaviors
Partial Order Scalogram Analysis of Crime Scene Behaviors
Consistency in Serial Murderers and Their Crime Scene Behaviors
Modeling Crime Scene Behavior and Background Characteristics
Applications To Police Investigations
General Discussion and Conclusions
Appendix A: Crime Scene Variables
Appendix B: Victim and Offender Background Characteristics
References
Index

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Maurice Godwin holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Behavioral Science from Trevecca Nazarene University, a Master's of Science Degree in Criminology from Indiana State University, and a Ph.D. in Investigative Psychology from the University of Liverpool, England. In his professional capacity, Dr. Godwin was a police officer in the State of North Carolina, and later was the Project Coordinator in Indiana for the first federally funded grant on community policing in a rural area. Dr. Godwin's private consulting group has provided psychological and geographical profiles in several serial murder cases. Dr. Godwin is currently an Adjunct Professor at Vermont College of Norwich University, where he serves as a field faculty mentor for the Master's of Arts Graduate Degree program with a concentration in criminal investigative psychology.

Product Description

Book by Godwin Grover Maurice

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: CRC Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0849313988
• ISBN 13: 9780849313981
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 344
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile