Crime Classification Manual

A Standard System for Investigating and Classifying Violent Crime
3. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-30505-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Buch, Englisch, 576 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 760 g

Autoren/Hrsg.

Douglas, John E.

Burgess, Ann W.

Burgess, Allen G.

Ressler, Robert K.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii

PART I CRIME ANALYSIS AND INVESTIGATION

1 Crime Classification: Past and Present 3

2 Criminal Investigative Concepts in Crime Scene Analysis 21
John E. Douglas and Lauren K. Douglas

3 The Impact of the Internet, Technology, and Forensics on Crime Investigation 39
John E. Douglas, Lauren K. Douglas, and Stefan R. Treffers

4 Local, Federal, and International Agencies 59

5 Classifying Crimes by Severity From Aggravators to Depravity 91
Michael Welner

PART II THE CLASSIFICATIONS

6 Criminal Enterprise Homicide 111

7 Personal Cause Homicide 165

8 Sexual Homicide 205

9 Extremist and Medical Homicide 237

10 Group Cause Homicide 263

11 Arson/Bombing 277

12 Rape and Sexual Assault 307

13 Nonlethal Crimes 367

14 Computer Crimes 399
Allen G. Burgess

15 Increased Globalization of Crime 431
Stefan R. Treffers

16 Mass and Serial Homicide 471

17 Poison and Biological Agents as Weapons 491
Arthur E. Westveer, John P. Jarvis, Carl J. Jensen, III, and Anne M. Berger

PART III LEGAL ISSUES

18 Interviewing, Interrogation, and Criminal Confessions 507
Gregory M. Cooper, Michael P. Napier, and Susan H. Adams

19 Wrongful Convictions: Causes, Solutions, and Case Studies 527
Peter Shellem

About the Editors 545

About the Contributors 549

Citation Index 551

Name Index 555

Subject Index 557

We dedicate this edition to chapter contributors Peter Shellem, B. S. (1960–2009) award-wining crime investigative reporter in Pittsburgh, PA and Arthur E. Westveer, M.L.A. (1936–2010) retired FBI supervisory special agent

Über Autor(innen)

JOHN E. DOUGLAS has been an FBI agent for over thirty years. One of the most successful and best-known true crime authors in the country, his many books include the New York Times bestseller Mind Hunter, which first introduced the public to the idea of psychological profiles as a tool in hunting down killers.

ANN W. BURGESS, RN, DNSc, is the author of nine textbooks on psychiatric nursing and crisis intervention and ten books on assessment and treatment of child, adolescent, and adult sexual assault victims and serial offenders.

ALLEN G. BURGESS is a former associate professor in the College of Business Administration at Northeastern University in Boston.

ROBERT K. RESSLER, MS, is a twenty-year veteran of the FBI. He developed many of the programs that led to the formulation of the FBI's National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime.