This volume brings together interesting analyses that have been undertaken in countries such as the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Italy, by drawing together the work of international authors in the field of criminal profiling. The book highlights differing perspectives and challenges facing profiling by discussing work that has been undertaken to date and, identify the research that remains to be done if criminal profiling is to develop into a robust, scientific endeavor.

Preface

Notes on Contributors

PART | PROFILING CRIMES OF VIOLENCE

CHAPTER 1

Homicidal Syndromes: A Clinical Psychiatric Perspective

George B. Palermo

CHAPTER 2

Offender Profiles and Crime Scene Patterns in Belgian Sexual Murders

Fanny Gerard, Christian Mormont, and Richard N. Koesis

CHAPTER 3

Profiling Sexual Fantasy: Fantasy in Sexual Offending

and the Implications for Criminal Profiling

Dion Gee and Aleksandra Belofastov

CHAPTER 4

Murder by Manual and Ligature Strangulation: Profiling Crime Scene

Behaviors and Offender Characteristics

CHAPTER 5

Criminal Propensity and Criminal Opportunity: An Investigation

of Crime Scene Behaviors of Sexual Aggressors of Women

Eric Beauregard, Patrick Lussier, and Jean Proulx

PART II NEW TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS

CHAPTER 6

Case Linkage: Identifying Crimes Committed by the Same Offender

Jessica Woodhams, Ray Bull, and Clive R. HoUin

CHAPTER 7

Predicting Offender Profiles From Offense and Victim Characteristics

David P. Farrington and Sandra Lambert

CHAPTER 8

Criminal Profiling in a Terrorism Context

Geoff Dean

CHAPTER 9

Geographic Profiling of Terrorist Attacks

Craig Bennell and Shevaun Corey

PART III LEGAL AND POLICY CONSIDERATIONS

      FOR CRIMINAL PROFILING

CHAPTER 10

Criminal Profiling as Expert Evidence?: An International Case Law

Perspective

Caroline B. Meyer

CHAPTER 1 l

Criminal Profiling: Impact on Mock Juror Decision Making

and Implications for Admissibility

Anne Marie R. Paclebar, Bryan Myers, and Jocelyn Brineman

CHAPTER 12

The Phenomenon of Serial Murder and the Judicial Admission

of Criminal Profiling in Italy

Angelo Zappala and Dario Bosco

CHAPTER 13

Criminal Profiling and Public Policy

Jeffrey B. Bumgarner

CHAPTER 14

The Observations of the French Judiciary: A Critique

of the French Ministry of Justice Policy Report

into Criminal Analysis

Laurent Montet

CHAPTER 15

The Image of Profiling: Media Treatment and General

Impressions

James S. Herndon

PART IV CRITIQUES AND CONCEPTUAL DIMENSIONS

        TO CRIMINAL PROFILING

CHAPTER 16

Contemporary Problems in Criminal Profiling

Richard N. Kocsis and George B. Palermo

CHAPTER 17

Fine-Tuning Geographical Profiling

Jasper J. van der Kemp and Peter J. van Koppen

CHAPTER 18

Skills and Accuracy in Criminal Profiling

Richard N. Kocsis

CHAPTER 19

Investigative Experience and Profile Accuracy:

A Replication Study

David Gogan

CHAPTER 20

Schools of Thought Related to Criminal Profiling

Richard N. Kocsis

Index