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The best practices for catching a serial killer. The big secret of all serial killer investigations: police already have the killer's name. How the media can, and usually does, undermine the task force operation.

How serial killer task forces defeat themselves. How crime assessment profiling reveals that psychology. The book covers: The nature of the psychology of a serial killer. Readers, both professionals and students, will benefit from the comprehensive and critical case reviews, the analysis of what went wrong, what went right, and the after-action recommendations of evaluators in the US, UK, and Canada. The author also brings to the book hands-on best practices gleaned from the experience of other task forces.

What is the underlying psychology of a serial killer and why this defeats task force investigations? This is the first book of its kind that combines state-of-the-art psychological assessment experience with the expertise of a homicide investigator who has tracked some of this country's most notorious serial killers. Keppel and Birnes take readers inside the operations of serial killer task forces to learn why. Serial killers like Seattle's Ted Bundy, Maryland's Beltway Sniper, Atlanta's Wayne Williams, or England's Peter Sutcliffe usually outsmart the task forces on their trail for long periods of time. classifies serial killers as organized, methodical, careful, and purposeful-or disorganized, erratic and usually suffering from mental illness (Scheflin, 1998 Taylor et al., 2012 Warf & Waddell, 2002). The collective group of typographies widely accepted by academia include sexual, paraphilic, sadistic, delusion, hate-oriented, thrill, attention seekers, cult-oriented, and instrumental (White, Lester, Gentile, & Jespersen, 2010). For example, Holmes and De Burger (1985) proposed five typographies: the visionary types respond to delusional voices instructing them to commit murder the mission-oriented types target specific victims who are viewed as 'evil', such as prostitutes or particular racial groups ; the hedonistic serial killers seek pleasure or thrill from the killings the control types desire power over their victims and the predator types 'hunt' for their victims and view the killings as a recreational activity (Dogra, Leenaars, Chadha, Manju, Lalwani, THEMIS Sood, Lester, Raina, & Behera, 2012).

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