Behavioral Evidence Analysis. International Forensic Practice and Protocols

✍ Scribed by Brent E. Turvey, Manuel Esparza

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 356
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The criminal profiling community can easily be split into two separate groups: those that have written criminal profiles and those that have not. It is an important distinction, because report writing is one of the most important requirements of good scientific practice. The process of writing up findings helps to reveal flaws in an examiner’s logic so that they can be amended or revisited; the final report memorializes findings and their underlying basis at a fixed point in time; and as a document a forensic report provides the best mechanism for transparency and peer review. The problem is that many criminal profilers have not written criminal profiles, and still more prefer that this remain the case, often to conceal their lack of methodology.

The contributors to this volume have travelled the world for more than a decade to lecture on the subjects of crime scene analysis and criminal profiling. The result has been a steady stream of requests from educational institutions and government agencies alike to teach the application of criminal profiling theory. Everyone has read the books, everyone has attended the lecture; but few have experience with hands on practice and application. In other words, there is a growing number of serious professionals who want to know how to put theory into practice and then learn what it means to put their findings into written form.

Behavioral Evidence Analysis: International Forensic Practice and Protocols has been written as a companion text to Turvey’s Criminal Profiling, now in its fourth edition. It is meant to provide the legion of instructors that are teaching criminal profiling as a subject with real world examples of case reports. It is also meant to serve as a desk reference for professionals that are writing crime scene analysis and criminal profiling reports, to enable sampling of structure, terminology, and references.

• One of a kind desk reference containing actual criminal profiles for student and examiner reference
• Contributions prepared by an international group of board-certified criminal profilers
• Reports are prepared in relation to both investigative and forensic contexts
• Demonstrates the utility of criminal profiling in both teaching and casework
• Compliant with practice standards and ethical guidelines published by the International Association of Forensic Criminologists, the Academy of Behavioral Profiling, and the Global Forensic Alliance

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter,Copyright,List of Contributors,Author BiographiesEntitled to full textPart 1: Limits of Profiling MethodologiesChapter 1 - Applied Criminal Profiling: An Introduction, Pages 3-9, B.E. Turvey
Chapter 2 - Criminal Profiling: Fraud and Failures, Pages 11-31, B.E. Turvey
Chapter 3 - Behavioral Evidence Analysis: Basic Protocols for the Criminal Profilera, Pages 33-44, B.E. Turvey
Chapter 4 - The IAFC Criminal Profiler Professional Certification Act, Pages 47-54, B.E. Turvey, W.S. Crowder, M. McGrath, S. Mikulay
Chapter 5 - Using a Cold Homicide Case to Teach Criminal Profiling, Pages 55-61, W.S. Crowder
Chapter 6 - Mexico: Criminal Profiling and Forensic Criminology, Pages 63-77, M.A. Esparza, B.E. Turvey
Chapter 7 - Portugal: Applications of Behavioral Evidence Analysis and Forensic Criminology, Pages 79-112, T. Konvalina-Simas
Chapter 8 - Colombia: Criminal Profiling Applications, Pages 113-121, D.M. Cardona
Chapter 9 - Threshold Assessments, Pages 125-136, W.S. Crowder, B.E. Turvey
Chapter 10 - Equivocal Death Analysis, Pages 137-151, B.E. Turvey
Chapter 11 - Investigating Staged Crime Scenes, Pages 153-169, B.E. Turvey
Chapter 12 - Investigating Fetish Burglaries, Pages 171-176, B.E. Turvey
Chapter 13 - Applied Crime Scene Analysis, Pages 179-220, B.E. Turvey
Chapter 14 - Examining Allegations of Sexual Assault, Pages 221-250, B.E. Turvey, M. McGrath, J. Freeman
Chapter 15 - Examining Sexual Homicides, Pages 251-298, B.E. Turvey, J. Freeman
Chapter 16 - Applied Case Linkage Analysis, Pages 299-335, B.E. Turvey, J. Freeman
Chapter 17 - Criminal Profiling and Crime Scene Analysis in Postconviction Review, Pages 337-357, B.E. Turvey
Index, Pages 359-366

✦ Subjects

Criminal behavior, Prediction of;Criminal profilers