Applications of Geographical Offender Profiling

Contents: Preface; Part 1 Empirical Bases: Geographical offender profiling: applications and opportunities, David Canter and Donna Youngs; A multivariate analysis of serial murderers' disposal site location choice, Samantha Lundrigan and David Canter; Offender characteristics and spatial mobility: an empirical study and some policy implications, Thomas Gabor and Ellen Gottheil; The environmental range of serial rapists, David Canter and Paul Larkin; The road to robbery: travel patterns in commercial robberies, Peter J. van Koppen and Robert W.J. Jansen. Part 2 Stylistic Variations: Crime scene and distance correlates of serial rape, Janet Warren, Roland Reboussin, Robert R. Hazelwood, Andrea Cummings, Natalie Gibbs and Susan Trumbetta; An examination of the relationship between distance travelled and motivational aspects of arson, Katarina Fritzon; The journey to rape: geographic distance and the rapist's method of approaching the victim, James L. LeBeau; Characteristics of serial arsonists and crime scene geography in Japan, Masayuki Tamura and Mamoru Suzuki. Part 3 Investigative Directions: Predicting serial killers' home base using a decision support system, David Canter, Toby Coffey, Malcolm Huntley and Christopher Missen; Linking commercial burglaries by modus operandi: tests using regression and ROC analysis, Craig Bennell and David Canter; Predicting home location of serial offenders: a preliminary comparison of the accuracy of human judges with a geographical profiling system, Brent Snook, David Canter and Craig Bennell; Commentary - confusing operational predicaments and cognitive explorations: comments on Rossmo and Snook, et al., David Canter; A comparison of the efficacy of different decay functions in geographical profiling for a sample of US serial killers, David Canter and Laura Hammond: Bibliography of geographical profiling; Index.