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| NCJ Number:
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NCJ 175354
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| Title:
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Criminal Detection and the Psychology of Crime
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| Editor(s):
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D V Canter ; L J Alison
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| Sale:
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Dartmouth Publishing Co Limited
Gower House, Croft Road
Aldershot
Hants, GU11 3HR, United Kingdom |
| Publication Date:
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1997 |
| Pages:
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569 |
| Origin:
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United Kingdom |
| Language:
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English |
| Publication No.:
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ISBN 1-85521-454-7 |
| Annotation:
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This volume brings together publications that lay the groundwork for social science contributions to criminal detection. |
| Abstract:
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The book includes 39 articles, presented in 10 sections: The Investigation of Crime; Psychological Autopsy; Investigative Interviewing; Detecting Deception; Evaluating Testimony; Delinquents' Characteristics; Typologies of Criminals; Property Crime; Violent Crime; and Inferring Offender's From Offense Characteristics. The articles examine a variety of subjects, including: (1) certain qualities essential to an investigator; (2) the extent and nature of psychological services in police departments; (3) refining the cognitive interview; (4) towards a sociological model of the police informant; (5) differentiation of truthful and deceptive criminal suspects in behavior analysis interviews; (6) retracted confessions; (7) insurance fraud; (8) a comparison of murderers and their brothers; (9) psychological profiling; (10) the environmental range of serial rapists; (11) hunting serial violent criminals; and (12) psychic crime detectives. References, notes, figures, tables, appendixes, bibliographies, index |
| Main Term(s):
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Criminology |
| Index Term(s):
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Sociology ; Violence ; Behavioral science research/ ; Criminal methods ; Behavior typologies ; Personality assessment ; Forensic psychology ; Police policies and procedures ; Offense characteristics ; World criminology |
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