Criminal Profiling: Developing an Effective Science And Practice (LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY: PSYCHOLOGY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES)

Hicks, Scotia J.,Sales, Bruce D.

ISBN 10: 1591473926 / ISBN 13: 9781591473923

Editore: Amer Psychological Assn, 2006

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• Titolo: Criminal Profiling: Developing an Effective Science And Practice (LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY: PSYCHOLOGY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES)
• Editore: Amer Psychological Assn
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1591473926
• ISBN 13: 9781591473923
• Rilegatura: hardcover
• Condizione: Good

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Riassunto

This book aims to transform criminal profiling into a credible science and practice that will reliably aid law enforcement investigation. Authors Scotia J. Hicks and Bruce D. Sales painstakingly critique the state of criminal profiling today and find the practice of criminal profiling to be an art more than an established science, lacking clear links among crime scene evidence and offender motives, personality, and behavior. With no firm scientific basis for their judgments, profilers differ in their conclusions and recommendations, rendering profiling problematic as a law enforcement tool. Criminal Profiling tackles this problem squarely, exploring in detail how a science of profiling may be constructed and tested. The comprehensive new approach offered here builds on existing practice and research and calls for empirical information that can lead to a sound new science of criminal profiling. This is the latest volume in the Law and Public Policy: Psychology and the Social Sciences series.

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Book by Hicks Scotia J Sales Bruce Dennis