PROFILE OF A CRIMINAL MIND How Psychological Profiling Helps Solve True Crimes

Hardback. Jeffrey Dahmer, The Rostov Ripper, Ted Bundy, The Vampire of Dusseldorf, The Hillside Stranglers. Some of the world's most devious, dangerous, and notorious criminals have been identified with the use of criminal profiling. Using the crime scene, geographic targeting, plenty of investigative instinct, and other tools, criminologists today are able to construct detailed profiles that help bring criminals to justice. The author explores the use of criminal profiling - from the suppositions of early physicians to the work of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit to the latest developments in computer-aided geographic profiling. This fascinating and authoritative study follows innovative criminologists as they use physical and psychological profiles to track down serial killers, rapists, bombers, and kidnappers. Other case studies include : Jack the Ripper, Richard Trento, John Francis Duffy, Harvey Murray Glatman, Colin Ireland, Edmund Kemper, Henry Lee Lucas, George Metesky, Peter Sutcliffe and Wayne Williams. Profusely Illus. in colour and b/w. With Bibliog. and Index. 256pp. 4to h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. in Vg+ dw. A fairly heavy book which will require additional postage.