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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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• 1 Introduction(p. 1)
• 2 Serial Murder(p. 5)
• 2.1 Serial Murder(p. 5)
• 2.1.1 Definitions and Typologies(p. 6)
• 2.1.1.1 Characteristics(p. 9)
• 2.1.2. Incidence, Population, and Growth(p. 10)
• 2.1.3. Theories(p. 16)
• 2.1.4. Victimology(p. 26)
• 2.2 Child Murder(p. 30)
• 2.3 Murder and Distance(p. 33)
• 3 Serial Rape and Arson(p. 35)
• 3.1 Serial Rape(p. 37)
• 3.2 Serial Arson(p. 45)
• 4 Forensic Behavioural Science(p. 49)
• 4.1 Investigative Difficulties(p. 49)
• 4.2 Police Strategies(p. 52)
• 4.2.1 Linkage Analysis(p. 53)
• 4.2.1.1 Physical Evidence(p. 54)
• 4.2.1.2 Offender Description(p. 55)
• 4.2.1.3 Crime Scene Behaviour(p. 57)
• 4.2.2 Other Investigative Tactics(p. 64)
• 5 Criminal Profiling(p. 67)
• 5.1 Development of Profiling(p. 69)
• 5.2 Organized and Disorganized Crime Scenes(p. 71)
• 5.3 Applications of Profiling(p. 73)
• 5.4 Critiques(p. 74)
• 5.5 Evaluation Studies(p. 76)
• 5.6 Profiling and Probability(p. 80)
• 5.7 Expert Testimony(p. 81)
• 5.8 Future of Profiling(p. 85)
• 6 Behavioural Geography(p. 87)
• 6.1 Movement and Distance(p. 87)
• 6.2 Mental Maps(p. 89)
• 6.3 Awareness and Activity Spaces(p. 90)
• 6.3.1 Anchor Points(p. 91)
• 6.4 Centrography(p. 91)
• 6.5 Nearest Neighbour Analysis(p. 94)
• 7 Geography of Crime(p. 97)
• 7.1 Geography and Crime Studies(p. 98)
• 7.1.1 Journey-to-Crime Research(p. 99)
• 7.2 Environmental Criminology(p. 111)
• 7.2.1 Routine Activity Theory(p. 112)
• 7.2.2 Rational Choice Theory(p. 114)
• 7.2.3 Crime Pattern Theory(p. 116)
• 8 Target and Hunt(p. 123)
• 8.1 Target Patterns(p. 123)
• 8.1.1 Place and Space(p. 123)
• 8.1.2 Hunting Grounds(p. 126)
• 8.1.3 Target Backcloth(p. 127)
• 8.1.4 Crime Sites(p. 128)
• 8.1.5 Body Disposal(p. 129)
• 8.1.6 Learning and Displacement(p. 132)
• 8.1.7 Offender Type(p. 134)
• 8.2 Hunting Methods(p. 135)
• 8.2.1 Target Cues(p. 135)
• 8.2.2 Hunting Humans(p. 138)
• 8.2.3 Search and Attack(p. 139)
• 8.2.4 Predator Hunting Typology(p. 142)
• 9 Predator Patterns(p. 145)
• 9.1 Spatial Typologies(p. 145)
• 9.2 Geography of Serial Murder(p. 151)
• 9.2.1 Methodology(p. 152)
• 9.2.1.1 Serial Killer Data(p. 152)
• 9.2.1.2 Newspaper Sources(p. 152)
• 9.2.1.3 Offender, Victim, and Location Data(p. 154)
• 9.2.2 Serial Killer Characteristics(p. 155)
• 9.2.2.1 State Comparisons(p. 156)
• 9.2.3 Case Descriptions(p. 157)
• 9.2.3.1 Richard Chase(p. 160)
• 9.2.3.2 Albert DeSalvo(p. 160)
• 9.2.3.3 Clifford Olson(p. 161)
• 9.2.3.4 Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi(p. 162)
• 9.2.3.5 Peter Sutcliffe(p. 169)
• 9.2.3.6 Richard Ramirez(p. 163)
• 9.2.3.7 David Berkowitz(p. 164)
• 9.2.3.8 Jeffrey Dahmer(p. 165)
• 9.2.3.9 Joel Rifkin(p. 165)
• 9.2.3.10 John Collins(p. 166)
• 9.2.3.11 Aileen Wuornos(p. 167)
• 9.2.3.12 Ian Brady and Myra Hindley(p. 167)
• 9.2.3.13 Jerry Brudos(p. 168)
• 9.4 Serial Murder Characteristics(p. 168)
• 9.4.1 Offenders(p. 168)
• 9.4.2 Victims(p. 170)
• 9.4.3 Locations(p. 173)
• 9.4.4 Crime Parsing(p. 178)
• 9.4.5 Clusters(p. 179)
• 9.4.6 Trip Distance Increase(p. 181)
• 10 Geographic Profiling(p. 185)
• 10.1 Mapping and Crime Analysis(p. 185)
• 10.2 Geography and Crime Investigation(p. 188)
• 10.3 Offender Residence Prediction(p. 195)
• 10.3.1 Criminal Geographic Targeting(p. 195)
• 10.3.2 Performance(p. 202)
• 10.3.3 Validity, Reliability, and Utility(p. 204)
• 10.3.3.1 Validity(p. 204)
• 10.3.3.2 Reliability(p. 208)
• 10.3.3.3 Utility(p. 209)
• 10.4 Geographic Profiling(p. 211)
• 10.4.1 Profiling Considerations(p. 212)
• 10.4.2 Operational Procedures(p. 216)
• 10.4.2.1 Information Requirements(p. 216)
• 10.4.2.2 Requesting A Geographic Profile(p. 218)
• 10.4.3 Understudy Training Program(p. 220)
• 10.4.4 The Rigel Computer System(p. 222)
• 11 Investigative Applications(p. 225)
• 11.1 Strategies and Tactics(p. 225)
• 11.1.1 Suspect Prioritization(p. 225)
• 11.1.2 Police Information Systems(p. 226)
• 11.1.3 Task Force Management(p. 227)
• 11.1.4 Sex Offender Registries(p. 228)
• 11.1.5 Government and Business Databases(p. 228)
• 11.1.6 Motor Vehicle Registrations(p. 229)
• 11.1.7 Patrol Saturation and Stakeouts(p. 229)
• 11.1.8 Response Plans(p. 230)
• 11.1.9 Mail Outs(p. 231)
• 11.1.10 Neighbourhood Canvasses(p. 231)
• 11.1.11 News Media(p. 232)
• 11.1.12 Bloodings(p. 233)
• 11.1.13 Peak-of-Tension Polygraphy(p. 233)
• 11.1.14 Fugitive Location(p. 233)
• 11.1.15 Missing Bodies(p. 234)
• 11.1.16 Trial Court Expert Evidence(p. 234)
• 11.2 Jack the Ripper(p. 235)
• 12 Conclusion(p. 241)
• Appendices(p. 245)
• Appendix A Serial Murder Data Set(p. 245)
• Appendix B Data Coding Forms(p. 251)
• Glossary(p. 255)
• Bibliography(p. 267)
• Index(p. 335)

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