Professionalizing offender profiling : forensic and investigative psychology in practice / / edited by Laurence Alison and Lee Rainbow

• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (292 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.25/8
• Soggetto topico: Criminal psychology; Criminal behavior, Prediction of; Criminal profilers; Criminal investigation - Psychological aspects
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: AlisonLaurence J RainbowLee
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; ProfessionalizingOffender Profiling; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures and tables; List of contributors; Preface: Laurence Alison and Lee Rainbow; Acknowledgements; Part I: Professionalizing the process: Lee Rainbow; 1. Taming the beast: the UK approach to the management of behavioural investigative advice: Lee Rainbow; 2. What Behavioural Investigative Advisers actually do: Lee Rainbow and Adam Gregory; 3. BIA support to investigative decision making: Lee Rainbow, Louise Almond and Laurence Alison ; 4. Pragmatic solutions to offender profiling and behavioural investigative advice: Laurence Alison, Alasdair Goodwill, Louise Almond, Claudia van den Heuvel and Jan Winter5. The cognitive expertise of Behavioural Investigative Advisers in the UK and Germany: Susanne Knabe-Nicol, Laurence Alison and Lee Rainbow; 6. The cognitive expertise of Geographic Profilers: Susanne Knabe-Nicol and Laurence Alison; 7. Familial DNA prioritization: Adam Gregory and Lee Rainbow ; 8. Child pornography offenders: towards an evidenced-based approach to prioritizing the investigation of indecent image offences: Michelle McManus, Matthew L. Long and Laurence AlisonPart II: Professionalizing the product: Lee Rainbow; 9.What do Senior Investigating Police Officers want from Behavioural Investigative Advisers?: Terri Cole and Jennifer Brown; 10. Interpreting claims in offender profiles: the role of probability phrases, base-rates and perceived dangerousness: Gaëlle Villejoubert, Louise Almond and Laurence Alison ; 11. Stereotyping, congruence and presentation order: interpretative biases in utilizing offender profiles: Benjamin Marshall and Laurence Alison12. An evaluation and comparison of claims made in behavioural investigative advice reports compiled by the National Policing Improvement Agency in the United Kingdom: Louise Almond, Laurence Alison and Louise Porter; Conclusions and next steps: Lee Rainbow and Laurence Alison; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Offender profiling is now viewed as an integral part of serious crime investigations by many law enforcement agencies across the world and continues to attract a high public and media profile. Despite almost three decades of research and developments in the field, the public impression of offender profiling is still influenced by misleading media portrayals, which fail to acknowledge the significant developments in theory, research and practice.This book is the only book on the market to illustrate in detail the actual practice of Behavioural Investigative Advice, its diversit
• Titolo autorizzato: Professionalizing offender profiling
• ISBN: 1-283-10304-4; 9786613103048; 1-136-67418-7; 0-203-80925-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910456507803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II