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The Third Edition is a thorough revision, as is appropriate in such a fast-moving field. New chapters cover criminal behavior theories and psychological profiling; autoerotic deaths; occult crimes; plus two new chapters detailing two infamous unsolved crimes: Jack the Ripper and the Jon Benet Ramsay case. The authors continuing research and activities in the field result in new case studies for the book, often as boxed inserts.

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• Psychological Profiling
• An Introduction
• Profiling in Fantasy and Fact
• Criminal Theories and Psychological Profiling
• The Rationale for Psychological Profiling
• The Analysis of the Crime Scene
• Profiling Serial Murder
• Arson and Psychological Profiling
• Psychological Profiling and Rape
• Pedophilia and Psychological Profiling
• Geography, Profiling, and Predatory Criminals
• Computer Database Construction for Psychological Profiling
• The Victim in Psychological Profiling
• Profiling and the Future

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Holmes, one of the few academic experts in this field, contends that profiling crime with the assistance of computerized monitoring can become a scientifically sophisticated method for criminal investigation. He draws upon his experience with more than 50 homicide and rape cases and interviews with convicted murderers, framed within concepts from the behavioral sciences (frustration/aggression, the criminal personality, psychopathy, and strain theory) to support his thesis. Arguments for a wider employment of profiling are prefaced with caveats: "Profiles are not as neat as in fiction. . . . There is little empirical data to substantiate a criminal syndrome"; the FBI found profiling useful only 15 of the time. The author notes that profiling is not suitable for all cases, yet he contends that it may be practical in assisting the police in those cases where "motives of normal' killings are absent" and where the "unknown perpetrator has exhibited signs of psychopathy." Despite this flawed assumption (i.e., the validity of psychopathology), the book is well written albeit with fascinating and chilling descriptions of heinous crimes, and it provides models for the analysis of crime scenes--serial murders, rape, satanic murder, and the role of the victim--in criminal investigation. Community college, undergraduate, and public libraries. P. M. Wickman SUNY College at Potsdam

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He is Professor of Justice Administration at the University of Louisville. He is Vice President of the National Center for the Study of Unresolved Homicides. He received his doctorate from Indiana University.

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