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A Psychological Assessment of Crime Profiling Kindle Edition

by James Reese (Author), Richard Ault (Author), www.all-about-psychology.com (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition
3.5 3.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
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In the early 1970s, Special Agent Howard Teten and others in the FBI began to apply the insights of psychological science to violent criminal behavior. In 1972, the FBI Academy launched a Behavioral Science Unit—later called the Behavioral Analysis Unit—which began looking for patterns in the behavior of serial rapists and killers. Agents John Douglas and Robert Ressler conducted systematic interviews of serial killers like John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, and Jeffrey Dahmer to gain insight into their modus operandi, motivations, and backgrounds. This collected information helped agents draw up profiles of violent criminals eluding law enforcement.

By the 1980s, the concept of criminal investigative analysis was maturing into a full-fledged investigative tool for identifying criminals and their future actions by studying their behaviors, personalities, and physical traits. Accordingly, in July 1984, the Bureau opened the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC) on the campus of the FBI Academy to provide sophisticated criminal profiling services to state and local police for the first time.

A Psychological Assessment of Crime Profiling is one of a series of landmark articles written by members of the Behavioral Science Units, National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime, at the FBI Academy.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004MME4GI
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ www.all-about-psychology.com (February 6, 2011)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 6, 2011
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 83 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 17 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.5 3.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings

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Phil Love
5.0 out of 5 stars Good reference
Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2013
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This was a great reference, one that I used to gain more insight into my study of Public Safety Emergency Management, and Criminal Justice. I will pass the text to others through donating it to the public library and after completing my Doctoral Degree.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Not what was expected
Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2011
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This is a very short piece that details why criminal profiling is important to law enforcement. It does not give any information on criminal profiling itself though the introduction makes it seem like it plans to. Not really informative in the long run. I read it to the end hoping to get more information, really it seems more like a persuasive short essay detailing why law enforcement needs criminal profiling.
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S.B.
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2014
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Great stuff
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JWaterz
1.0 out of 5 stars Shortened by mistake
Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2015
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I could only download 5 pages. I think something happened in the transfer. I know this man and he has many many stories to tell that are spell-binding. Something went way wrong.
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Dayo
4.0 out of 5 stars A Psychological Assessment of Crime Profiling
Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2012
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Chose this book from the Amazon 'other people who purchased....' guide and I was pleased enough with the read, however, I was expecting a book... instead I got a pamphlet. It would be nice if the quantity of pages was somewhere in the description or am I being picky? I don't think so. A good read but far too short.
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Christina O'Rourke
2.0 out of 5 stars Basic
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 17, 2015
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Basic information at best, not what I was looking for, definitely not worth paying for. Would be better as a leaflet!
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