Description: Psychiatrist Dr. James A. Brussel is widely credited with undertaking the first systematic offender profile during a criminal investigation. Criminal profiling is an investigative tool used to identify suspects and analyze patterns that can predict future crimes and victims. This book unveils the tools and techniques used by experts to profile crime scenes, victims, and offenders. A fact versus fiction section helps keep concepts rooted in known truths.
Review Quotes: Review: Criminal Profiling "The bold and generous use of graphics and the wonderfully written, accessible prose in this series guarantee that it will become a high-interest, nonfiction page-turner that readers will want to take home."--VOYA, December 2006