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Title:
Hunting serial predators : a multivariate classification approach to profiling violent behavior
Author:
Godwin, Grover Maurice.
ISBN:
9780849313981

9781439822494

9780367803070
Publication Information:
Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, ©2000.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxxii, 310 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents:
Chapter 1 Motives For Murder -- chapter 2 Reliability, Validity, and Utility of Extant Serial Murderer Classifications -- chapter 3 A Thematic Facet Model of Serial Murder -- chapter 4 Research Objectives -- chapter 5 Data Acquisition and Content Analysis -- chapter 6 Research Design and Methodology -- chapter 7 Descriptive Statistics of Victims -- chapter 8 Descriptive Statistics of Offenders -- chapter 9 Elements of Crime Scene Behavior -- chapter 10 Smallest Space Analysis ( SSA- I) of Crime Scene Behaviors -- chapter 11 Partial Order Scalogram Analysis of Crime Scene Behaviors -- chapter 12 Consistency in Serial Murderers and Their Crime Scene Behaviors -- chapter 13 Modeling Crime Scene Behavior and Background Characteristics -- chapter 14 Applications To Police Investigations -- chapter 15 General Discussion and Conclusions.
Abstract:
The majority of the available published accounts of serial murderers are not in scholarly or technical publications. Even such few academic reviews as do exist typically commence with reference to fictional accounts so that the profile of a serial murderer is typically far from clear or precise.Hunting Serial Predators is unique in that each chapter, written in detail, explains how to research and interpret, psychologically, the crime scene actions of serial killers. The book provides the reader an empirical facet model of the crime scene actions of American serial murderers based on information available to a police inquiry; an overview of the related scientific knowledge, introducing a new method to classify the serial predator, and accounts of the process and difficulties of profiling the serial murderer.By presenting a classification model of serial murderers and their crime scene behaviors based on empirical and repeatable studies, this book makes significant advances in the areas of police investigations, etiology, and treatment possible.The empirical process used to analyze serial murderers' crime scene actions described in Hunting Serial Predators makes it possible to make logical decisions about how to detect, apprehend, and eventually access their dangerousness.
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