Geographic Profiling

by D. Kim Rossmo

As any police officer who has ever walked a beat or worked a crime scene knows, the street has its hot spots, patterns, and drug dealers work their markets, prostitutes stroll their favorite corners, and burglars hit their favorite neighborhoods. But putting all the geographic information together in cases of serial violent crime (murder, rape, arson, bombing, and robbery) is highly challenging. Just ask the homicide detectives of the Los Angeles Police Department who hunted the Hillside Stranglers, or law enforcement officers in Louisiana who tracked the brutal South Side rapist.

Geographic Profiling introduces and explains this cutting-edge investigative methodology in-depth. Used to analyze the locations of a connected series of crimes to determine the most likely area of offender residence, geographic profiling allows investigators and law enforcement officers to more effectively manage information and focus their investigations.

This extensive and exhaustive work explains geographic profiling theories and principles, and includes an extensive review of the literature and research in the areas of criminal profiling, forensic behavioral science, serial violent crime, environmental criminology, and the geography of crime. For investigators and police officers deployed in the field, as well as criminal analysts, Geographic Profiling is a "must have" reference.

Genres: Nonfiction, Crime, True Crime

378 pages, Hardcover

First published December 28, 1999

Reviews

[Royce Ratterman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Most books are rated related to their usefulness and contributions to my research.
Overall, a good book for the researcher and enthusiast.
Read for personal research
- found this book's contents helpful and inspiring - number rating relates to the book's contribution to my needs.

[Rachel Bayles · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great stuff, if you love maps.
Some people are better or worse at spatial thinking, and you will enjoy this book only if you have map brain.

[Hifumi · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love how this book illustrates modern culture and urbanization breeding violence and perversion, also the fact that modern culture shapes our crime, and criminals, in turn, are influenced by both geographical factors (like transportation networks) and psychological ones (like class and race)

[Anx Kwong]

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