Applied Crime Analysis
A Social Science Approach to Understanding Crime, Criminals, and Victims

A practical guide for analyzing and reconstructing criminal events using social science methods

Wayne Petherick (Author)

9780323294607, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 3 July 2014

304 pages
23.4 x 19 x 2 cm, 0.66 kg

"This hands-on guide takes theoretical principles and demonstrates how they can be put into practice using real case examples. In addition to covering key topics such as staged crime scenes, false reports, and criminal motivations, the book includes a final chapter on report writing." --EvidenceMagazine.com, Sep-Oct 2014

Most approaches to crime analysis focus on geographical crime mapping, which is helpful in identifying crime clusters and allocating police resources, but does not explain why a particular crime took place. Applied Crime Analysis presents a model that brings statistical anchoring, behavioral psychopathology, and victimology from the social sciences together with physical and crime scene evidence to provide a complete picture of crime. This hands-on guide takes theoretical principles and demonstrates how they can be put into practice using real case examples. In addition to covering key topics such as staged crime scenes, false reports, and criminal motivations, the book’s includes a final chapter on report writing, showing readers how to use their findings to successfully advance to prosecution and succeed in court.

1. Introduction to Crime Analysis
2. Logic and Reasoning in Crime Analysis
3. Physical Evidence and the Crime Scene
4. Forensic Victimology
5. Staged Crime Scenes
6. Case Linkage
7. False Reports
8. Criminal Motivations
9. Risk Assessment
10. Threat Management
11. Criminal Behavior and Psychopathology
12. Report Writing

Subject Areas: Probability & statistics [PBT]