Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Forensic psychology:
- Part I Psychological underpinnings
- Part II Assessments
- 2.1 Child victims of sexual abuse
- 2.2 Credibility
- 2.3 Crime pattern analysis
- 2.4 Evaluating violence risk in young people
- 2.5 Eyewitness testimony
- 2.6 False memory
- 2.7 Intellectual disabilities and offending
- 2.8 Interrogative suggestibility and false confessions
- 2.9 Investigative interviewing
- 2.10 Mental health
- 2.11 Mentally disordered offenders
- 2.12 Memory
- 2.13 Offender profiling
- 2.14 Parenting capacity and conduct
- 2.15 Parole decision making
- 2.16 Personality and crime
- 2.17 Personality disorder classification in forensic settings
- 2.18 Polygraphy
- 2.19 Post-traumatic stress disorder
- 2.20 Psychopathy
- 2.21 Risk and dangerousness in adults
- 2.22 Sexual offender assessment
- 2.23 Statement validity analysis
- 2.24 Suicide risk in adolescents and adults
- 2.25 Vulnerable adults’ capacity
- Part III Interventions
- Part IV Psychology and criminal behaviour
- Part V Psychology and civil law
- Part VI Special topics
- Part VII Professional practice
- Part VIII Research practice
- Author index
- Subject index
2.13 - Offender profiling
from Part II - Assessments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Forensic psychology:
- Part I Psychological underpinnings
- Part II Assessments
- 2.1 Child victims of sexual abuse
- 2.2 Credibility
- 2.3 Crime pattern analysis
- 2.4 Evaluating violence risk in young people
- 2.5 Eyewitness testimony
- 2.6 False memory
- 2.7 Intellectual disabilities and offending
- 2.8 Interrogative suggestibility and false confessions
- 2.9 Investigative interviewing
- 2.10 Mental health
- 2.11 Mentally disordered offenders
- 2.12 Memory
- 2.13 Offender profiling
- 2.14 Parenting capacity and conduct
- 2.15 Parole decision making
- 2.16 Personality and crime
- 2.17 Personality disorder classification in forensic settings
- 2.18 Polygraphy
- 2.19 Post-traumatic stress disorder
- 2.20 Psychopathy
- 2.21 Risk and dangerousness in adults
- 2.22 Sexual offender assessment
- 2.23 Statement validity analysis
- 2.24 Suicide risk in adolescents and adults
- 2.25 Vulnerable adults’ capacity
- Part III Interventions
- Part IV Psychology and criminal behaviour
- Part V Psychology and civil law
- Part VI Special topics
- Part VII Professional practice
- Part VIII Research practice
- Author index
- Subject index
Summary
By the 1970s police forces throughout the USA were referring to the process of speculating about the characteristics of offenders they were looking for as 'offender profiling'. Accounts of 'offender profiling' have always been confused by the mixture of myth and reality that exist within Thomas Harris' and many subsequent fictional portrayals. Drawing on a background in social and environmental psychology, the author has demonstrated in Criminal Shadows that the central question of offender profiling is to establish the basis for making inferences from offence actions to offender characteristics. The range of scientific questions inherent in offender profiling have been shown by Canter to be a subset of a broader range of issues in psychology that are relevant to police investigations. This places offender profiling within a more general field named Investigative Psychology. This more academically grounded approach is opening up the potential applications of psychological science.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology , pp. 236 - 241Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010
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