Profiling Violent Crimes: An Investigative Tool
by Ronald M. Holmes
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The second edition of Profiling Violent Crimes combines social and behavioural theory with practical criminology research to acquaint professionals and students with the general principles of profiling. New to this edition are chapters on the use of computers in profiling geoforensic information, paedophilia and arson. The authors provide a practical approach to assessing violent crimes and outlines crime scene elements which offer insight not only to the type of crime involved but also to show more the person who may have been involved in the commission of such a crime. They argue that profiling should be used as `yet another forensic tool to compliment a thorough investigation′. show lessTags
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I might have done better to find a more recent edition of this. My edition (written in I think about 1993 or 1994) and what it says about computers is quaintly out-of-date. It tells you how to write code to construct your own text-only computer database to compare different crimes, and speculates that one day in the far distant future there might be some kind of statewide or nationwide system that could monitor criminals and sort out suspects that match the profile.
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He is Professor of Justice Administration at the University of Louisville. He is Vice President of the National Center for the Study of Unresolved Homicides. He received his doctorate from Indiana University. 050
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- Nonfiction, Politics and Government, Sociology, General Nonfiction
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- 364.3 — Society, government, & culture Social problems and social services Crime Criminals
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- HV8073.5 .H65 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminal justice administration Police. Detectves. Constabulary Police duty. Methods of protection Investigation of crimes. Examination
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