Profiling and Serial Crime (eBook)

Theoretical and Practical Issues

Wayne Petherick (Autor)

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2012 | 3. Auflage
480 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-12-405901-6 (ISBN)

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Profiling and Serial Crime examines the principles of behavioral profiling and then applies them to serial crime. This book is a completely revised and updated edition of an excellent text on behavioral profiling and serial crime. It provides a theoretical and practical foundation for understanding the motivation and dynamics in a range of serial offenses. Part I of the book deals with the history, crucial issues, methods, theory, and treatment in the mainstream media. Part II discusses serial crime in detail, including bullying, stalking, rape, murder, and arson. The title of this edition reflects the focus on profiling as well as serial crime and has been updated throughout with the latest research. New to this edition are five all-new chapters, including serial harassment and cyber-bullying and the motivations of victim and offender; two replacement chapters on serial rape and serial arson; enhanced pedagogy to keep students focused on what's important; and new ancillary materials for both instructor and student. The book consists of ancillary online materials for instructors and students, including lecture slides, test bank and case studies. Numerous case examples are included to show the real world uses of behavioral profiling in investigations. This book will appeal to professionals and students in criminal justice and forensic psychology programs, as well as those taking courses in criminal profiling, especially courses on serial crime. - Provides a theoretical and practical foundation for understanding the motivation and dynamics in a range of serial offenses - Ancillary online materials for instructors and students, including lecture slides, test bank and case studies - Numerous case examples show the real world uses of behavioral profiling in investigations

Wayne Petherick is Associate Professor of Criminology at Bond University in Australia. Wayne's areas of interest include forensic criminology, forensic victimology, criminal motivations, criminal profiling, and applied crime analysis. He has worked on risk and threat cases, a mass homicide, stalking, rape, and a variety of civil suits involving premises liability and crime prevention. He has presented to audiences in Australia and abroad, and has published in a variety of areas including social science and legal works in the areas of criminal profiling, expert evidence, stalking, serial crimes, criminal motivations, and victimology. Wayne is co-editor of Forensic Criminology, and editor of Profiling and Serial Crime: Theoretical and Practical Issues, now in its third edition.

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About the Authors

Wayne Petherick, PhD

Wayne Petherick is currently Associate Professor of Criminology at Bond University on Queensland’s Gold Coast. Wayne teaches in the areas of Alcohol, Drugs, and Crime, Criminal Profiling, Applied Crime Analysis, Criminal Motivations, Crime and Deviance, Forensic Victimology, and Forensic Criminology. Wayne is currently author, editor, or coeditor of three textbooks including this work, Forensic Victimology, and Forensic Criminology.

His research areas of interest include criminal profiling, with his doctoral thesis Criminal Profiling: A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Methods and Content examining profiles to better understand the nature of logic employed and the types of characteristics offered by the different approaches. Other areas include stalking, where he is developing a Response-Outcome model to understand the response style of victims and how this may perpetuate the harassment. In other work, Wayne is examining the relationship between self-esteem, personality disorder, crime, and criminal (and victim) motivations, and in bullying and harassment.

In addition to his teaching and research work, Dr. Petherick also works on a variety of cases including homicides, threat and risk cases, and stalking. He can be contacted via email at [e-mail] or [e-mail].

Ross Brogan, MA (Fire Investigation)

Ross joined the New South Wales (NSW) Fire Brigades, in Australia, in 1970 and worked as a firefighter and officer throughout NSW during that period. Ross was awarded the Australian Fire Service Medal in 2005 for his contribution to fire investigation with the NSW Fire Brigades. He retired in December 2007 after serving the community of NSW for more than 37 years. In June 1987, he successfully completed the Arson Awareness section of NSW Police Detective training course; in August he was appointed to NSW Fire Brigades Fire Investigation Unit as an investigator, a position he held until 2003. In January 1999, Ross was awarded a Graduate Certificate in Fire Investigation; in 2004, he graduated with a Graduate Diploma of Fire Investigation; and in 2008, he graduated with a Master of Arts (Fire Investigation). Since March 2003, Ross has co-presented a 6-day practical fire investigation course for Charles Sturt University to students from the police, the fire service, private investigators, insurance investigators, and forensic science students. Ross continues to teach for Charles Sturt University. Ross is currently a member of the International Association of Arson Investigators, NSW, Victoria, and Queensland chapters; a USA International member; and a member of the Australian & New Zealand Forensic Science Society. He has been qualified by voir dire in both the criminal and the civil jurisdiction of the Supreme Court in NSW to give opinion evidence as an expert witness in fire matters. In all, Ross has attended and given evidence in excess of 100 matters throughout Australia.

Nathan Brooks, GradDip Psych, MPsych (Forensic), BPsychSc

Nathan holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology and a Masters of Psychology (Forensic) from Bond University. He is currently a doctoral candidate in the Psychology Department at Bond University, where he is studying psychopathy in the community and business setting. Nathan has worked with a variety of offenders and his areas of interest include, sexual and violent offenders, personality disorders and risk assessment. Nathan works as a Psychologist in private practice and at Bond University as an Adjunct Teaching Fellow in the Psychology Department. Nathan can be contacted at [e-mail].

Claire Ferguson, PhD

Claire Ferguson holds her Bachelor of Arts degree in honours Psychology from the University of Western Ontario in Canada, her Masters degree in Criminology, and her PhD in Criminology, both from Bond University in Australia. Dr. Ferguson has worked for St. Leonard’s Society, as well as interned with Queensland Fire and Rescue services (Fire Investigation Unit). She also undertook an internship with Forensic Solutions in 2008. She is a Lecturer, researcher and consultant in forensic criminology, and her expertise surrounds Forensic Criminology. Dr. Ferguson’s doctorate (2010) was an analysis of staged crime scenes in homicide cases internationally. This project was the only systematic review of these types of cases to ever be conducted and was viewed with great esteem in the criminological community inside and outside of Bond University.

Dr. Ferguson has been nominated for the ‘Excellence in Teaching and Learning’ award and the ‘UniJobs Lecturer of the Year’ award by her students. Along with teaching, she has also participated in several large scale research ventures involving teams of researchers, complex methodologies and competitive national grants. Two involving the law school at Bond have led to significant policy implications in Queensland. In 2009, she received both the ‘Bond University Research Candidate of the year’ and the ‘Faculty of HSS research Candidate of the year’. Claire is currently doing research and is a project manager for The Australian Centre for Arson Research and Treatment at Bond University.

Elizabeth Fry, MCrim

Elizabeth completed a Joint Honours degree in Criminology and Sociology including a thesis on Education in a Young Offender Institute in the United Kingdom. She has also completed a Master of Criminology which included a thesis on Consistencies in Crime Scene Characteristics and Offender Behaviour in Intimate Partner Homicide in Queensland, Australia. Elizabeth’s current interests include criminal profiling, forensic criminology and juvenile homicide.

Elizabeth is currently working with young offenders and chaotic, homeless youths in a residential setting supporting them to get into education, training and employment and live successfully in the community.

David Field, LLB

David Field is an Associate Professor of Law at Bond University in Gold Coast, Australia. Former Solicitor for Prosecutions for Queensland, stipendiary magistrate for Glasgow, also former prosecutor and defense trial attorney in both Scotland and Australia (Qld and NSW). Author of Evidence Law in Queensland, as well as numerous textbook chapters relating to law end evidence.

Kind to children, considerate towards animals, and environmentally friendly. Available for funerals and bah mitzvas. Happily married, although my wife may not be.

Robert Homant, PhD

Robert has a PhD in Clinical Psychology. After 4 years as a staff psychologist at Michigan State Prison where he was director of the Sex Offender Program, he moved to Wisconsin State Prison as Chief Psychologist. He is currently full professor and chair of the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Detroit Mercy, where he teaches courses in deviant behavior, psychology and law, and corrections. His research interests include workplace violence and suicide by cop, and he has written a number of articles on criminal profiling and factors affecting criminally deviant behavior.

Yolande Huntingdon, BSocSci (Criminology)

Yolande Huntingdon completed Bachelor of Social Science degree (double major Criminology, major Psychology) degree at Bond University, achieving top of class in Australian Criminal Justice System, Forensic Victimology, Applied Behavioural Evidence Analysis and Crime and Deviance in Australia and is currently embarking on her Master of Arts (by Research), with the intention of commencing her PhD endeavours within the next 12 months.

Yolande is on the Board of Directors as criminological consultant for At The Ark, a not-for-profit registered charity dealing with childhood sexual assault victim and family support and has initiated and overseen the commencement of a friendship and focus group for adult survivors of child sexual abuse, now being administered and coordinated by a qualified counsellor.

Furthermore, Yolande has completed a report addressing Australian urban transport crime prevention; this report now having been distributed to unions, transit and government authorities and key stakeholders nationwide. The Minister for Transport has requested that Yolande present these findings at a public forum into the issue of Queensland urban transit safety.

Yolande is a regular speaker, having addressed many groups and organisations on issues such as crime and deviance, crime in the community, the overrepresentation of victims of child abuse in the criminal justice system, crime prevention strategies and online sexual predation of children via social networking sites.

Alicia Jenkins BPsychSci (Hons), PhD Candidate

Alicia Jenkins has Certificate 4 in Justice Administration from the Tafe of South Australia, she also holds her Bachelor of Psychological Science and a Bachelor of Health Science Honours from The University of Adelaide, South Australia. Her Honours thesis evaluated the effectiveness of an Australian Government program ‘We are Family’, aimed at reducing companion animal attacks on babies and children. Her research made suggestions to the state Government of Victoria and South Australia for program and delivery improvements.

She is currently a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science at Bond University, Gold Coast, with her studies focusing on self-esteem and criminal behaviour. Ms Jenkins has worked as a research assistant for the Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.12.2012
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Strafverfahrensrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• ISBN-10: 0-12-405901-5 / 0124059015
• ISBN-13: 978-0-12-405901-6 / 9780124059016