Profilers: Leading Investigators Take You Inside the Criminal Mind

by John H. Campbell (Editor), Don Denevi (Editor)

Overview

In this compilation of expert articles, internationally recognized homicide investigators, most of them pioneers in developing the science and the art of profiling, share their insights gained from years of experience tracking the perpetrators of some of the most notorious crimes. Among the subjects discussed are: dealing with hostage situations, child abduction and murder in the David Meirhofer case, interviewing Jeffrey Dahmer, autoerotic murder, the challenges of creating psychological profiles, the use of forensic linguistics to track the Unabomber, assaultative eye injury ("enucleation"), and geographic profiling.A must for readers of true crime, forensic investigations, and murder mysteries, this unique collection of revealing articles offers a chilling and unparalleled glimpse into the workings of the criminal mind.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781615920266
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	05/28/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	377
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

John H. Campbell, Ph.D. (St. Cloud, MN), is a professor in the criminal justice department at St. Cloud State University, the former Unit Chief of the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit, and the coauthor (with Don DeNevi) of Into the Minds of Madmen.

Don DeNevi (Menlo Park, CA) is the author, or coauthor, of thirty-five books, including Into the Minds of Madmen (with John H. Campbell) and Mob Nemesis: How the FBI Crippled Organized Crime (with FBI Special Agent in Charge Joe Griffin). Having previously taught in the criminal justice department at San Francisco State University, he now teaches and counsels the condemned on San Quentin’s death row.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	9
Part 1	The Original Behavioral Science Articles on Criminal Profiling
Chapter 1.	Criminal Profiling from Crime Scene Analysis	13
Chapter 2.	Offender Profiles: A Multidisciplinary Approach	35
Chapter 3.	Sexual Homicide: A Motivational Model	41
Chapter 4.	Murderers Who Rape and Mutilate	61
Chapter 5.	The Men Who Murdered	73
Chapter 6.	The Split Reality of Murder	83
Chapter 7.	Classifying Sexual Homicide Crime Scenes: Interrater Reliability	91
Chapter 8.	Crime Scene and Profile Characteristics of Organized and Disorganized Murderers	99
Chapter 9.	Interviewing Techniques for Homicide Investigations	109
Chapter 10.	Crime Problems: The Lust Murderer	115
Chapter 11.	Rape and Rape-Murder: One Offender and Twelve Victims	123
Part 2	Contemporary Articles on Criminal Profiling
Chapter 12.	How to Interview a Cannibal	135
Chapter 13.	Sexual Fatalities	179
Chapter 14.	Using a Forensic Linguistic Approach to Track the Unabomber	193
Chapter 15.	Criminal Profiling: The FBI Uses Criminal Investigative Analysis to Solve Crimes	223
Chapter 16.	Assaultive Eye Injury and Enucleation	229
Chapter 17.	A Multidisciplinary Approach to Solving Cold Cases	243
Chapter 18.	Sexual Homicide of Elderly Women	267
Chapter 19.	Geographic Profiling Update	291
Chapter 20.	Nonfamily Child Abductors Who Murder Their Victims: Offender Demographics from Interviews with Incarcerated Offenders	313
Chapter 21.	Lethal Predators: Psychopathic, Sadistic, and Sane	335
Chapter 22.	Fire, Filicide, and Finding Felons	363

Editorial Reviews

A bone-chilling conversation with Jeffrey Dahmer is just one highlight from this anthology of seasoned examinations of one of law enforcement's grimmest challenges. Campbell and DeNevi's second collaboration (after Into the Minds of Madmen) casts a wide net; although famous profilers like John Douglas contribute several of the 28 essays here, most are written by accomplished but little-known specialists. The result is a no-nonsense, technically oriented but readable look at how cops grapple with the worst felonies, including hostage taking, serial rape and murder, and child abduction/murder. The contributors take a measured tone toward the lethal predators they examine, as in Robert Ressler's discussion of his Dahmer interviews: "We must never forget that... there are many Jeffrey Dahmers walking among us." James Fitzgerald gives an account of using forensic linguistics to decode more than 200 of the Unabomber's writings, such as elusive marks like "indented writing," marks left by writing on another piece of paper over the examined one. FBI Special Agent Mary Ellen O'Toole offers a useful overview of the often misunderstood science of profiling ("Contrary to the current television and movie depictions..., a successful profiler is not psychic"). Other chapters offer updates on multidisciplinary approaches to cold cases and geographic profiling innovations. This is a rigorous and disturbing collection, accessible but compiled with law enforcement professionals in mind. Illus. (Nov.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

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