Hunting Serial Predators: A Multivariate Classification Approach to Profiling Violent Behavior

The majority of the available published accounts of serial murderers are not in scholarly or technical publications. Indeed, even such few academic reviews as do exist typically commence withreference to fictional accounts, such as the X Files or Millennium. It is therefore not surprising that a robust profile of the serial murderer as described in current serial murder books is far from clear or precise.Therefore, what makes this book unique, is the fact that it does not cloud the topic with fictional and semi-autobiographical accounts based on particularexperiences or hunches of the writer. Each chapter is clearly written explaining in detail how to research and interpret, psychologically, the crime scene actions of serial killers. The thrust of the book is to provide the reader an empirical facet model of the crime scene actions of American serial murderers based on information available to a police inquiry. Serial murder is a controversial subject, full of potent myth, and the object of thisbook is to provide an empirical overview of the related scientific knowledge, introducing a new method to classify the serial predator, as well as accounts of the process and difficulties of profiling the serial murderer. It will be useful and interesting to most scientists and professionals in the field of criminology, psychology, criminal justice and police studies. It is the applied side of the book which will make it a standard reference book for many years to come for detectives and police officers.

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