criminal behavior, prediction of

Shares guidelines for protecting oneself from physical, legal, and professional harm, outlining methods for everything from responding to random threats and hiring babysitters to finding honest investment advisors and seeking employment.

A student introduction to profiling which includes definitions, an overview, a history, and other pertinent information to the study and use of criminal profiling.

Presents an introduction to forensic science, explaining how investigators use case studies from history, FBI profiles, and behavioral science to recover information and solve crimes and other mysteries.

A guide to criminal profiling. Describes how profilers identify psychological clues, use physical evidence, predict behavior patterns, and search for suspects. Covers fifty real criminal cases from around the world.

Examines how serial killers are caught, explaining related statistics, techniques, and careers; and discussing notorious serial murderers.

Dr. Godwin shares how he developed his program for psycho-geographic profiling, which helps the FBI track serial killers by creating profiles of the killers with information on where the murderer lives and where they may strike next.

Presents opposing viewpoints on the subject of crime and how it may be affected by poverty, genetics, drug use, and easy access to guns.

This book describes cases involving criminal profiling, such as the I-95 sniper shootings in Washington, D.C., "Green River Killer" Gary Leon Ridgway, serial killer William Heirens, David Berkowitz ("Son of Sam" killer), serial killer Ted Bundy, and serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.

Examines the techniques used by law enforcement to create and apply criminal profiles in investigations of violent crime, exploring the origins of profiling, methods, motive, modus operandi, and signature, and discusses real cases.