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Following the fictionalized account presented in the bestselling The silence of the lambs, Jeffers examines the actual work of the special agents in the Behavioral Science Unit of the FBI's National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime through the analysis of some of their investigations, beginning with the case of "Precious", one of several young prostitutes slain by a serial murderer in the Washington, DC area over the course of one weekend. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Jeffers delves into some of the high-tech methods used by the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit (set up in the 1970s and eventually formalized as the Crime Analysis and Criminal Personality Profiling program, CACPPP) to track mass murderers, serial killers, and other criminals. Jeffers handles the subject a bit unevenly, giving scant information about a number of sensational murders like the University of Florida case, yet devoting over 50 pages to the USS Iowa tragedy. He notes that the agents of the CACPPP are artists as well as scientists and that good old-fashioned detective work more often turns up the killers. Such was the case in finding the murderer of ``Precious,'' a young prostitute killed by a serial murderer. For crime collections.-- Belinda Pugh, Kings Bay Submarine Base Lib., Ga. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Publishers Weekly Review

In 1983 the FBI inaugurated the behavioral science unit of the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime. The principal function of this group, reports Jeffers ( Murder Along the Way ), is to draw profiles of criminals, especially serial killers, rapists, arsonists and terrorists. Such profiles are composed on the basis of general psychological principles and interviews with people incarcerated for similar crimes. The unit has won some remarkable successes, even anticipating the type of clothing a perpetrator will wear when apprehended, but the special branch came a-cropper when it endorsed a Navy report that, on flimsy evidence, attributed the explosion of a gun turret on the USS Iowa to a suicidal homosexual. An interesting if gloomy read. Photos not seen by PW. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved