Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Offender profiling − separating myth from reality 2. Criminal behaviour and its motivation 3. Environmental influences and patterns of offending 4. Problems and pitfalls in the gathering of data 5. Crime mapping and geographical profiling 6. Early approaches to profiling 7. Investigative psychology and the work of David Canter 8. Clinical and other approaches 9. Current developments and future prospects 10. Conclusions

About the Author

Peter Ainsworth