Profiling Violent Crimes: An Investigative Tool by Ronald M. Holmes,Stephen T. Holmes

"Excellent e-book, i've got used this for my felony habit direction for a couple of years. Very authoritative."
—Harry Cramer, Quincy University

The Fourth variation of this best-selling textual content presents scholars with the main updated info at the more and more renowned box of mental profiling. recognized authors Ronald M. Holmes and Stephen T. Holmes construct upon their endured examine and involvement in box research as a resource of proper and infrequently high-profile case reviews to demonstrate conception and alertness of the equipment mentioned. The textual content is especially readable and interesting, making common use of illustrative tables and figures and providing occasional photographs.

New to the Fourth Edition

• Offers a brand new bankruptcy on Lizzie Borden (Chapter 14), examining this historical homicide case with clean perception and a special research whereas conserving the bankruptcy on Jack the Ripper, a vintage unresolved serial murderer
• Covers newer occasions equivalent to the killings at Northern Illinois collage and Virginia Tech
• Provides a brand new part on Santeria and the occult to appreciate the dogma and icons of those teachings and investigates purposes in the back of crimes dedicated by way of a few followers
• Offers tips to scholars for on-line graduate courses, seminars, and levels in felony profiling
• Includes up to date tables and crime records during the text
• Presents new pictures to supply real representations of violent crimes and offenders

Intended Audience
This best-seller has lengthy been a winning supplemental textual content for undergraduate criminology and legal justice classes, together with felony research, felony Profiling, Violent Crimes, legal habit, box research, and Forensic Psychology.