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Title: Geographical Profiling

Price: $79.95

ISBN: 0849381290

Publication Date: 1999

# of Pages: 376

  • Includes extensive tables and figures (Modus Operandi Matrix, Serial Killer Characteristics, Criminal Hunting Typology, Serial Murder Rates by State), as well as a glossary
  • Examines investigative applications such as task force management, data searches, DNA screens, and neighborhood canvasses
  • Addresses serial murder, rape and arson; forensic behavioral science; criminal profiling; behavioral geography; predator patterns, and more
  • Includes case descriptions of some of the most notorious serial killers in the records of American justice, from Albert DeSalvo and David Berkowitz to Aileen Wuornos and Jeffrey Dahmer
  • Includes a thorough and extensive bibliography on serial murder, rape, and arson; the geography of crime; and environmental criminology
  • Concludes with a discussion of the Jack the Ripper murders and the surprising results of their geographic profile

    As any police officer who has ever walked a beat or worked a crime scene knows, the street has its hot spots, patterns, and rhythms: drug dealers work their markets, prostitutes stroll their favorite corners, and burglars hit their favorite neighborhoods. But putting all the geographic information together in cases of serial violent crime (murder, rape, arson, bombing, and robbery) is highly challenging. Just ask the homicide detectives of the Los Angeles Police Department who hunted the Hillside Stranglers, or law enforcement officers in Louisiana who tracked the brutal South Side rapist.

    Geographic Profiling introduces and explains this cutting-edge investigative methodology in-depth. Used to analyze the locations of a connected series of crimes to determine the most likely area of offender residence, geographic profiling allows investigators and law enforcement officers to more effectively manage information and focus their investigations.

    This extensive and exhaustive work explains geographic profiling theories and principles, and includes an extensive review of the literature and research in the areas of criminal profiling, forensic behavioral science, serial violent crime, environmental criminology, and the geography of crime. For investigators and police officers deployed in the field, as well as criminal analysts, Geographic Profiling is a "must have" reference.
   
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