Geographic Profiling

D. Kim Rossmo (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

532 Seiten

2025 | 2nd edition
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-34739-4 (ISBN)

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Geographic Profiling explores this cutting-edge investigative methodology for determining the most probable area of an offender’s residence by analyzing the locations of a series of connected crimes. Geoprofiling allows police detectives and law enforcement officers to prioritize suspects, focus their investigations, and manage information overload. This extensive and exhaustive work explains the underlying theories and operational principles of the methodology. To provide context, extensive reviews of the research on serial murder, rape, and arson, stranger child murder, behavioral/psychological profiling, linkage analysis, and the geography of crime are included.

As any police officer who has walked a beat or worked a crime scene knows, streets have hot spots, patterns, and rhythms. Understanding the varied geographic information in a crime series can be challenging. Renowned expert D. Kim Rossmo explains the concepts and applications of geographic profiling, and in this second edition updates his groundbreaking book with informative and engaging figures, tables, and examples. A range of applications are discussed including suspect prioritization, database searches, tactical response plans, missing person investigations, clandestine grave identification, and the role of geography in wrongful conviction reviews. Dr. Rossmo discusses the nature of police inquiries, criminal evidence, investigative challenges and failures, and more. The book explores the application of geographic profiling to violent and property crime, single offenses, epidemiology, counterterrorism/insurgency, and even earthquake epicenter and pirate base prediction. Fascinating new case studies include the Golden State Killer, Operation Lynx, the Zodiac Killer, the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, the DC Snipers, and the Austin Midnight Assassin.

Geographic Profiling is a must-have reference for detectives, crime analysts, and law enforcement officers who want to follow the geographic clues in their cases. Its clear presentation makes it ideal for college courses, police training, university scholars, and students of true crime.

Kim Rossmo is a professor and the Director of the Center for Geospatial Intelligence and Investigation in the School of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Texas State University. He has researched and published in the areas of the geography of crime, criminal investigations, and environmental criminology. He spent 22 years as a member of the Vancouver Police Department, working patrol, the Skid Road beat, organized crime intelligence, the emergency response team, and crime prevention. Dr. Rossmo spent the last five years of his policing career as the Detective Inspector in charge of VPD’s Geographic Profiling Section, which provided investigative support in serial murder, rape, bombing, and arson cases for police departments in Canada, the United States, Great Britain, Europe, Australia, and Africa. These agencies included the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Scotland Yard, the New York Police Department, the Los Angeles Police Department, the Texas Rangers, and the German Bundeskriminalamt. Before joining the Academy, Dr. Rossmo was a management consultant with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Director of Research for the Police Foundation in Washington, DC. He is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police Advisory Committee for Police Investigative Operations and is a full fellow of the International Criminal Investigative Analysis Fellowship. He sits on the editorial board for several academic journals including Homicide Studies, and was a commissioner and chair of the Austin Public Safety Commission. His books include Geographic Profiling, which was translated into Mandarin and Japanese, Criminal Investigative Failures, and (as co-author) the Texas Crime Atlas. Dr. Rossmo received the Outstanding Alumni of the Year Award from Simon Fraser University for his work in developing geographic profiling. He is the recipient of the Paul Tappan Award from the Western Society of Criminology and the Ronald V. Clarke Award for fundamental contributions to environmental criminology and crime analysis. In 2000, he was awarded the Governor General of Canada Police Exemplary Service Medal.

1. Introduction

2. Serial Murder

3. Serial Rape and Arson

4. Criminal Investigation

5. Crime Linkage Analysis

6. Behavioral Profiling

7. Behavioral Geography

8. Geography of Crime

9. Target and Hunt

10. Predator Patterns

11. Geographic Profiling

12. Investigative Strategies

13. Military and Counterterrorism

14. Biology and Epidemiology

15. Case Studies

16. Conclusion

17. Appendices

18. Glossary

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.3.2025
Zusatzinfo	24 Tables, color; 81 Line drawings, color; 29 Halftones, color; 110 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-032-34739-2 / 1032347392
ISBN-13	978-1-032-34739-4 / 9781032347394
Zustand	Neuware