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Most approaches to crime analysis focus on geographical crime mapping, which is helpful in identifying crime clusters and allocating police resources, but does not explain why a particular crime took place. Applied Crime Analysis presents a model that brings statistical anchoring, behavioral psychopathology, and victimology from the social sciences together with physical and crime scene evidence to provide a complete picture of crime. This hands-on guide takes theoretical principles and demonstrates how they can be put into practice using real case examples. In addition to covering key topics such as staged crime scenes, false reports, and criminal motivations, the book's includes a final chapter on report writing, showing readers how to use their findings to successfully advance to prosecution and succeed in court

This book illustrates the promise, purposes, and pitfalls of behavioral profiling in the investigation of serial crime, and provides a theoretical and practical foundation for students. It examines inductive and deductive reasoning, profiling methods (including geographic profiling), metacognition, expert evidence, and serial crime in detail, including cyber-bullying, stalking, rape, murder, and arson

Intro -- Child Sexual Abuse: Forensic Issues in Evidence, Impact, and Management -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- References -- Foreword -- References -- Acknowledgements -- About the editors -- Contributors -- About the contributors -- Part One: Types of child sexual abuse -- Chapter One: Child sexual abuse: Complexities and contexts -- Definitions -- Defining child sexual abuse -- Defining offenders -- Historical perspectives -- Prevalence of child sexual abuse -- Theories of CSA -- Situational crime prevention -- Finkelhor's four preconditions model -- Ward's pathways model -- Contexts and characteristics of abuse -- Victims vulnerabilities -- Perpetrator characteristics -- Intrafamilial child sexual abuse -- Extrafamilial CSA -- Care and institutional settings -- Stranger-perpetrated abuse CSA -- Female sexual offenders -- Behaviours and strategies in perpetrating CSA -- Cumulative risk and harm in CSA -- Heterogeneity of responses and diversity of management -- Chapter review questions -- References -- Chapter Two: Offender subtypes and theories of child sexual abuse-Illustrations using two Singapore case studies -- Definitions of a child victim -- Child sexual abuse -- Typology of child sexual abusers -- Intrafamilial vs extrafamilial child sexual abusers -- Situational vs preferential child sexual abusers -- Situational child sexual abusers -- Regressed -- Morally or sexually indiscriminate -- Naïve or inadequate -- Preferential child sexual abusers -- Seductive -- Fixated -- Mysoped or sadistic -- Paedophilic -- Theoretical perspectives -- Precondition Theory -- Integrated Theory -- Quadripartite Theory -- Pathways Model -- Integrated Theory of Sexual Offending -- Case studies -- Case study 1: Finding love in all the wrong places-Carl -- Case introduction -- Relevant personal history -- Typology and key motivating factors.

"The Psychology of Criminal and Antisocial Behavior: Victim and Offenders Perspectives is not just another formulaic book on forensic psychology. Rather, it opens up new areas of enquiry to busy practitioners and academics alike, exploring topics using a practical approach to social deviance that is underpinned by frontier research findings, policy, and international trends. From the relationship between psychopathology and crime, and the characteristics of catathymia, compulsive homicide, sadistic violence, and homicide victimology, to adult sexual grooming, domestic violence, and honor killings, experts in the field provide insight into the areas of homicide, violent crime, and sexual predation. In all, more than 20 internationally recognized experts in their fields explore these and other topic, also including discussing youth offending, love scams, the psychology of hate, public threat assessment, querulence, stalking, arson, and cults. This edited work is an essential reference for academics and practitioners working in any capacity that intersects with offenders and victims of crime, public policy, and roles involving the assessment, mitigation, and investigation of criminal and antisocial behavior. It is particularly ideal for those working in criminology, psychology, law and law enforcement, public policy, and for social science students seeking to explore the nature and character of criminal social deviance."--

This new textbook provides students with the basic principles and practice standards of forensic victimology-the scientific study of victims for the purposes of addressing investigative and forensic issues. It provides case-based coverage with original insights into the role that victimology plays in the justice system, moving beyond the traditional theoretical approaches already available. The purpose of this textbook is to distinguish the investigative and forensic aspects of victim study as a necessary adjunct to the field of victimology. It identifies forensic victimologists in the invest

Serial Crime: Theoretical and Practical Issues in Behavioral Profiling examines serial predatory behavior and is comprised of two main parts. The first section deals with behavioral profiling, and covers a variety of critical issues from profiling's history and the theoretical schools of thought to its treatment in the mainstream media. The second edition includes new sections on the problems of induction, metacognition in criminal profiling and investigative relevance. Part two deals more specifically with a number of types of serial crime including stalking, rape, murder and arson. Chapters on each of these crimes provide definitions and thresholds, discussion of the offenders, the crime and its dynamics. Considerations for behavioral profiling and investigations and the development of new paradigms in each area are interwoven throughout. Topics are conceptually and practically related since profiling has typically seen most application in serial crimes and similar investigations. The unique presentation of the book successfully connects the concepts and creates links to criminal behavior across crimes-murder, sexual assault, and arson-something no other title does. The connection of serial behavior to profiling, the most useful tool in discovering behavior patterns, is also new to the body of literature available and serves to examine the ideal manner in which profiling can be used in conjunction with behavioral science to positively affect criminal investigations. * Provides a theoretical and practical foundation for understanding the motivation and dynamics in a range of serial offenses * Illustrates the promise, purposes and pitfalls of behavioral profiling in the investigation of various serial crimes * Numerous case examples show the real world uses of behavioral profiling in investigations, as well as highlighting a variety of issues in understanding and investigating serial crime

Front Cover -- Child Abuse and Neglect: Forensic Issues in Evidence, Impact, and Management -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- About the Authors -- Part 1: Types of Child Abuse -- Chapter 1: Child Abuse: Types and Emergent Issues -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Emotional Abuse -- 3 Foetal Abuse -- 3.1 Intimate Partner Violence -- 3.2 Maternal Substance Abuse -- 4 Neglect -- 5 Physical Abuse -- 6 Sexual Abuse -- 7 Conclusion -- Chapter Review Questions -- References -- Chapter 2: Intimate Partner Violence as a Form of Child Abuse -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Definition and Terminology -- 3 Understanding IPV -- 4 Children's Rights -- 5 Research With Children Living With IPV -- 6 Data and Research Challenges -- 7 IPV and Other Violence in Children's Lives -- 8 Trauma Theory -- 9 Role of Developmental Stage -- 10 Differentiating Children's Experiences by Age and Developmental Stage -- 11 Children's Experiences and Responses -- 12 Nonabusive Caregiver and Their Relationship With the Child -- 13 Postseparation Violence and Fathering -- 14 Children's Voices -- 15 Conclusion -- Chapter Review Questions -- References -- Chapter 3: Keeping Our Eye on Sex, Power, Relationships, and Institutional Contexts in Preventing Institutional Child Sexu ... -- 1 Nature and Extent of Child Sexual Abuse in Institutions -- 1.1 The Nature and Extent of Institutional Child Sexual Abuse -- 2 Organisational, Contextual, Individual Risk Factors: A Situational Crime Prevention Approach -- 3 Institutional Child Sexual Abuse: Similarities and Differences to Other Abuse Contexts and Types -- 3.1 Home and Away: Are the Risks for Child Sexual Abuse Dependent on Location/Context? -- 4 Creating Cultures that Foster Positive Attitudes Towards Sex, Sexuality and Healthy Relationships

Forensic Criminology: the scientific study of crime and criminals for the purposes of addressing investigative and legal issues. It is a science, a behavioral science, and a forensic science. This text is intended to educate students in an applied fashion regarding the nature and extent of forensic casework that is supported by, dependent upon, and interactive with research, theory, and knowledge derived from criminology. It is also intended to act as a preliminary guide for practitioners working with and within related criminal justice professions. Particularly those involved with assisting