Investigative Psychology: Offender Profiling and the Analysis of Criminal Action

This ground-breaking text is the first to provide a detailedoverview of Investigative Psychology, from the earliest workthrough to recent studies, including descriptions of previouslyunpublished internal reports. Crucially it provides a framework forstudents to explore this exciting terrain, combining NarrativeTheory and an Action Systems framework. It includes empiricallytested models for Offender Profiling and guidance forinvestigations, as well as an agenda for research in InvestigativePsychology.

Investigative Psychology features:

• The full range of crimes from fraud to terrorism, includingburglary, serial killing, arson, rape, and organised crime
• Important methodologies including multi-dimensional scalingand the Radex approach as well as Social NetworkAnalysis
• Geographical Offender Profiling, supported by detailedanalysis of the underlying psychological processes that make thissuch a valuable investigative decision support tool
• The full range of investigative activities, includingeffective information collection, detecting deception and thedevelopment of decision support systems.

In effect, this text introduces an exciting new paradigm for awide range of psychological contributions to all forms ofinvestigation within and outside of law enforcement. Each chapterhas actual cases and quotations from offenders and ends withquestions for discussion and research, making this a valuable textfor undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Applied and ForensicPsychology, Criminology, Socio-Legal Studies and relateddisciplines.