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Offender Profiling : Theory, Research and Practice
Overview
This book places offender profiling within a more realistic, balanced context. Initial chapters introduce a theoretical, empirical basis for the approach, and are followed by chapters illustrating the pros and cons of its use in an applied, operational setting. It presents two ba sic ideas: that offender profiling is not an end in itself, but is pur ely an instrument for steering an investigation in a particular direct ion, and that the process of developing a profile depends on a combina tion of investigative experience together with objective findings from behavioral science research.
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- ISBN-13: 9780471975656
- ISBN-10: 0471975656
- Publisher: Wiley
- Publish Date: December 1997
- Dimensions: 9.01 x 6.01 x 0.65 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.86 pounds
- Page Count: 256
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