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Criminal Profiling:
An Introduction to Behavioral Evidence Analysis
2nd Edition
by Brent E. Turvey
Hardcover, 715 pages
Published by Academic Press, 2002
ISBN: 0127050418

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REQUIRED TEXT FOR CP501, Criminal Profiling

Brent's notes: Everything you want to know about the process of evidence based criminal profiling, explained with thorough, competent, applied, critical reasoning. Written for use in the classroom and in the field, easily the most comprehensive, multi-disciplinary criminal profiling textbook written to date.

This is not a collection of war stories, or a memoir. It is a textbook and a manual, detailing the deductive method of criminal profiling as developed by the author. The largest portion of material in this work is original, and can be found nowhere else.

Synopsis: Based on a scrapbook collected by a homicide detective with the LAPD from the 1930s to the 1950s, this work recalls film noir-era crimes such as the "Black Dahlia Mystery" and the "Lipstick Murder," as well as on-site forensic photos, mug shots, and previously unreleased photos from such sensational cases as the Lindbergh baby kidnapping and the Valentine's Day massacre.

Family Violence Across the Lifespan: An Introduction
by Ola W. Barnett, Cindy L. Miller-Perrin, Robin D. Perrin
Textbook Binding: 414 pages
Published by Sage Publications
Publication date: January 1997
ISBN: 0761907076

REQUIRED TEXT FOR CP208 Criminal Profiling & Domestic Homicide

Handbook for Death Scene Investigators
by Jay Dix, Mary Fran Ernst (Contributor)
Paperback, 124 pages
Published by Lewis Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: March 1999
ISBN: 0849302986

Book News, Inc., 07/31/89: Explores the historical, legal, and societal aspects of this important phenomenon. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. --This text refers to the paperback (reprint) edition of this title.

Practical Aspects of Munchausen by Proxy and Munchausen Syndrome Investigation
by Kathryn Artingstall
Hardcover, 368 pages
Published by CRC Press
Publication date: September 1998
ISBN: 0849381622

Practical Homicide Investigation: Tactics, Procedures and Forensic Techniques
CRC Series in Practical Aspects of Criminal and Forensic investigation
by Vernon J. Geberth
3rd Edition Hardcover, 700 pages
Published by CRC Pr
Publication date: June 1,1996

REQUIRED TEXT FOR CP505, Serial Homicide Investigation

Summary: Practical Homicide Investigation, Third Edition, is the indispensable guide for students of criminalistics, as well as for professionals involved in homicide investigation. the new edition combines a straightforward presentation of detailed techniques with factual, instructive case studies. No investigator should be without this veritable encyclopedia of homicide investigation.

Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives
by Robert K. Ressler, Ann W. Burgess, John E. Douglas, Horace J. Heafner
Paperback, 234 pages
Reprint edition
Published by Simon & Schuster
Publication date: June 1995
ISBN: 0028740637

Techniques of Crime Scene Investigation
by Barry A.J. Fisher
Hardcover, 552 pages
6th edition
Published by CRC Press
Publication date: January 2000
ISBN: 0849381193

Brent's notes: Okay, big apologies to Barry for not having read this until now. I availed myself to the text and was incredibly impressed. Comprehensive and useful. I don't have my own copy but I'm going to get it just as soon as I can.