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Scotia J. Hicks, PhD and Bruce D. Sales, PhD, JD
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293 pages
ITEM #: 4316073
ISBN: 1-59147-392-6
ISBN 13: 978-1-59147-392-3
PUBLICATION DATE: March 2006
EDITION: Hardcover
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Criminal Profiling: Developing an Effective Science and Practice aims to transform criminal profiling into a credible science and practice that will reliably aid law enforcement investigation.
Authors Scotia J. Hicks and Bruce D. Sales painstakingly critique the state of criminal profiling today and find the practice of criminal profiling to be an art more than an established science, lacking clear links among crime scene evidence and offender motives, personality, and behavior. With no firm scientific basis for their judgments, profilers differ in their conclusions and recommendations, rendering profiling problematic as a law enforcement tool. This book tackles this problem squarely, exploring in detail how a science of profiling may be constructed and tested. The comprehensive new approach offered here builds on existing practice and research and calls for empirical information that can lead to a sound new science of criminal profiling.
Book Review
The contents offer a refreshing breath of scientific scrutiny in a field that originated in the hocus pocus of fiction writing.
—Doody Enterprises, Inc.
About the Authors
This book is part of the Law and Public Policy: Psychology and the Social Sciences Series.
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