Criminal Psychology : a Beginner's Guide

health, for example). These assessments can be used in the man- agement of the offenders’ highlighted risk and needs, informing ...

this development contributing to the design, delivery and man- agement of programmes which attempt to address the offenders’ tho ...

are usually encouraged by their employers to expand their know- ledge of these specialisms by researching them further. The abil ...

We have tried to present a definition of criminal psychology along with information about how various criminal psychologists may ...

Hollin, C. R. (ed.) (2003) The essential handbook of offender assess- ment and treatment. Chichester: John Wiley. Howitt, D. (20 ...

offender profiling and linking crime The term ‘offender profiling’ is one with which most of us are familiar. Its recent appeara ...

referred to by other names including criminal profiling, psycho- logical profiling and specific profile analysis. Offender profi ...

A number of different materials can be used by an offender profiler in constructing a profile or in geographically profiling an ...

Another criminological principle that is used in geographical profiling is the rational choice theory which predicts that offend ...

those who were on foot. By travelling in a car, the journey takes less time and thus the distance to a property seems less. Thes ...

Geographical profiling principles have been developed in England for the marauder type of offender by Professor David Canter and ...

often portrayed in the media. The types of characteristics profiled (as shown in the media and in published reports of profiling ...

offenders that are thought to differ in their offending behaviour and therefore in their characteristics. One such example is th ...

demographic. In such situations the profiler is therefore assuming a relationship between behaviour and demographic characterist ...

As noted above, there are three assumptions that underlie the practice of offender profiling. Some have been adapted from person ...

the offender consistency hypothesis The assumption of consistency across crimes appears to be faring well. This may be because a ...

has been examined using a sample of stranger rapists, but the study found no evidence to support this. Having now considered the ...

being found between behavioural themes and previous criminal histories. It is possible that stronger associations between charac ...

In this section we consider a less publicized way in which criminal psychology can aid police investigations – case linkage. Cas ...

offender profiling and linking crime 31 Linking the crimes of Jack the Ripper In the late nineteenth century in London, eleven w ...