Criminal Profiling is a wide-ranging, authoritative history of this
fascinating subject, from the first efforts at physical profiling to
today's computer-generated geographic mapping techniques.
Is there such a thing as a criminal type? Are criminals born genetically
predisposed to commit crimes or are they fashioned by their
circumstances? Physicians, psychologists, and criminologists have been
asking these questions for many centuries without finding a definitive
answer. Criminal Profiling is packed with intriguing case histories
that demonstrate the variety, sophistication, and effectiveness of this
fascinating science. The book includes chapters on the search for the
criminal personality, early criminal profiling, and the latest theories
of criminality, and features the stories of serial killers Ted Bundy,
Peter Sutcliffe, and Andrei Chikatilo, among many others.