Now in its third edition, Criminal Profiling is established as an industry standard text. It moves evidence-based criminal profiling into a full embrace of the scientific method with respect to examining and interpreting behavioral evidence. If focuses on criminal profiling as an investigative and forensic process, helping to solve crime

The volume explains the scope and methodology employed in the studies that the author has undertaken. The studies canvassed throughout the this book represent the author's original, empirically based work on the topic of criminal profiling.

Describes common criminal profiling techniques that aid in solving crimes.

Before police can solve a crime, they need to find their suspects. In especially difficult cases, law enforcement officials use criminal profiling to help catch their perpetrators. The science of criminal profiling combines forensics and psychology to understand the type of person who commits crimes. Through thoroughly-researched text, including informative

Criminal profilers when, why, and where crimes take place. They study the criminal mind to not only track down perpetrators but also to figure out ways to reduce the crime rate. In this book, readers explore theories of criminology and examine how these concepts are being employed in police work.