According to the book description of Criminal Psychology and Forensic Technology: A Collaborative Approach to Effective Profiling, “Offender profiling has been developing slowly as a possible investigative tool since 1841 and the publication of Edgar Allen Poe's The Murder in the Rue Morgue. In this book, detective C. Auguste Dupin demonstrates the ability to follow the thought patterns of a companion while they stroll through Paris for 15 minutes without speaking a word. Today profiling is an important investigative tool. Nevertheless, it often represents a less than educated attempt to provide law enforcement agencies with detailed information about the behavior of an unknown individual who has committed a crime. Criminal Psychology and Forensic Technology: A Collaborative Approach to Effective Profiling introduces alternative approaches to improving the way crimes are investigated and offender profiles are generated. It shows forensic evidence experts how to work with profilers to combine discrete data into a more meaningful picture. The contributors address both their own specialty, such as anthropology, and then demonstrate how working in conjunction with criminal psychologists can provide more effective offender profiles. This book is unique in that it provides you with an array of articles that fuse aspects of criminal psychology and several forensic science methods in a collaborative effort to improve profiling. Written in a format that is simple and straightforward, it utilizes actual case studies to show how specific procedures relate to police investigations. The only book on the market that shows a team approach to criminal profiling, Criminal Psychology and Forensic Technology: A Collaborative Approach to Effective Profiling is a reference perfect for students interested in learning criminal profiling techniques and professionals wishing to sharpen their skills. Whatever your reason for choosing this book, it will enlighten you about alternative investigative tools.”

According to one reader of Tracker: Hunting Down Serial Killers, “Tracker describes the intricacies of Dr. Godwin's style of geographic and psychological profiling, and then documents how it has been successfully used in various cases. Tracker is not redundant because it does not cover old territory; rather, it explodes the myths about profiling and introduces a new discussion on profiling from a scientific viewpoint--all in a reader-friendly tone. What makes Tracker unique is that it is the only profiling book that uses scientifically valid quantitative data for profiling, versus qualitative information; challenges the hallowed pronouncements of FBI profilers; and discusses the next quantum step in tracking criminals--geographic profiling. Finally, as a reader who found this book refreshing, I find it odd that the other reviewers failed mentioned the many cases that Dr. Godwin has assisted on (pro bono) to help bring some resolution to missing persons' families.”

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According to the book description of Hunting Serial Predators: A Multivariate Classification Approach to Profiling Violent Behavior, “The majority of the available published accounts of serial murderers are not in scholarly or technical publications. Even such few academic reviews as do exist typically commence with reference to fictional accounts so that the profile of a serial murderer is typically far from clear or precise. Hunting Serial Predators is unique in that each chapter, written in detail, explains how to research and interpret, psychologically, the crime scene actions of serial killers. The book provides the reader an empirical facet model of the crime scene actions of American serial murderers based on information available to a police inquiry; an overview of the related scientific knowledge, introducing a new method to classify the serial predator, and accounts of the process and difficulties of profiling the serial murderer. By presenting a classification model of serial murderers and their crime scene behaviors based on empirical and repeatable studies, this book makes significant advances in the areas of police investigations, etiology, and treatment possible. The empirical process used to analyze serial murderers' crime scene actions described in Hunting Serial Predators makes it possible to make logical decisions about how to detect, apprehend, and eventually access their dangerousness.”