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Crime Classification Manual: A Standard System for Investigating and Classifying Violent Crimes
This is the second edition of the landmark book that standardized the language and terminology used throughout the criminal justice system. It classifies the critical characteristics of the perpetrators and victims of major crimes—murder, arson, sexual assault, and nonlethal acts—based on the motivation of the offender. The second edition contains new classifications on computer crimes, religion-extremist murder, and elder female sexual homicide.
This edition also contains new information on stalking and child abduction, the use of biological agents as weapons, cybercrimes, Internet child sex offenders, burglary and rape, and homicidal poisoning. In addition, many of the case studies and crime statistics have been updated.
This edition also contains new information on stalking and child abduction, the use of biological agents as weapons, cybercrimes, Internet child sex offenders, burglary and rape, and homicidal poisoning. In addition, many of the case studies and crime statistics have been updated.
555 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1992
About the author
John E. Douglas
37 books3,053 followersJohn Edward Douglas is a former United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent, one of the first criminal profilers, and criminal psychology author. He also wrote four horror novels in the mid 1990s. -Wikipedia
During his twenty-five year career with the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit, a name he later changed to The Investigative Science Unit (Douglas & Olshaker, 1995), John Douglas became the leading expert on criminal personality profiling and the pioneer of modern criminal investigative analysis. Through his research with serial criminal’s, Douglas learned how criminals think and what makes them do the things that they do, and why. Douglas can determine many personal traits and habits of an offender just by examining the crime scene; it’s evidence and victimology (Douglas & Olshaker, 1995). Interviews John Douglas has conducted hundreds of interviews with some of the world’s most notorious serial offenders, which include: - Charles Manson, and three members of the Manson clan. - Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin of Robert F. Kennedy. - John Wayne Gacy, the serial killer that killed 33 people. - David Berkowitz, the “Son of Sam”. - James Earl Ray, assassin of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - Ted Bundy - Unsuccessful assassins of Gerald Ford and George Wallace (Douglas & Olshaker, 1995). Captured In addition, Douglas’s profiles aided in numerous arrests of serial offenders, some of which include: - Wayne Williams, the .22 caliber killer. - Carlton Gary, the stalking strangler. - Robert Hanson, the Anchorage Alaska baker who would kidnap, hunt, then kill local prostitutes. These are just a few of the cases that John Douglas aided in throughout his twenty-five year career as a profiler with the Behavioral Science Unit, which he later renamed the Investigative Science Unit (Douglas & Olshaker, 1995). Contributions to Psychology Douglas and his colleagues outlined in an article that explained the goals of a serial offender in the September 1980 issue of the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin. They are as follows: - What leads a person to become a sexual offender and what are the early warning signals? - What serves to encourage or to inhibit the commission of his offense? - What types of responses or coping strategies, by an intended victim are successful with what type of sexual offender in avoiding victimization, and - What are the implications for his dangerousness, prognosis, disposition and mode of treatment (Douglas & Olshaker, 1995)?
During his twenty-five year career with the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit, a name he later changed to The Investigative Science Unit (Douglas & Olshaker, 1995), John Douglas became the leading expert on criminal personality profiling and the pioneer of modern criminal investigative analysis. Through his research with serial criminal’s, Douglas learned how criminals think and what makes them do the things that they do, and why. Douglas can determine many personal traits and habits of an offender just by examining the crime scene; it’s evidence and victimology (Douglas & Olshaker, 1995). Interviews John Douglas has conducted hundreds of interviews with some of the world’s most notorious serial offenders, which include: - Charles Manson, and three members of the Manson clan. - Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin of Robert F. Kennedy. - John Wayne Gacy, the serial killer that killed 33 people. - David Berkowitz, the “Son of Sam”. - James Earl Ray, assassin of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - Ted Bundy - Unsuccessful assassins of Gerald Ford and George Wallace (Douglas & Olshaker, 1995). Captured In addition, Douglas’s profiles aided in numerous arrests of serial offenders, some of which include: - Wayne Williams, the .22 caliber killer. - Carlton Gary, the stalking strangler. - Robert Hanson, the Anchorage Alaska baker who would kidnap, hunt, then kill local prostitutes. These are just a few of the cases that John Douglas aided in throughout his twenty-five year career as a profiler with the Behavioral Science Unit, which he later renamed the Investigative Science Unit (Douglas & Olshaker, 1995). Contributions to Psychology Douglas and his colleagues outlined in an article that explained the goals of a serial offender in the September 1980 issue of the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin. They are as follows: - What leads a person to become a sexual offender and what are the early warning signals? - What serves to encourage or to inhibit the commission of his offense? - What types of responses or coping strategies, by an intended victim are successful with what type of sexual offender in avoiding victimization, and - What are the implications for his dangerousness, prognosis, disposition and mode of treatment (Douglas & Olshaker, 1995)?
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August 9, 2021
Libro molto interessante, affascinante, ricco, completo, esaustivo e preziosissimo.
Peccato per l’indecente, vergognosa ed imbarazzante edizione italiana, piena di centinaia e centinaia di refusi, errori grammaticali, lettere e parole mancanti, aggiunte a caso o invertite, che non solo rendono fastidiosa ed irritante la lettura (che altrimenti sarebbe meravigliosa), ma sminuiscono e sviliscono tantissimo questo manuale così importante.
Ennesimo caso di trascuratezza ed inesistenza della figura del correttore di bozze.
E di inadeguatezza di una casa editrice (da 0 stelle) che tratta in questo modo, totalmente inaccettabile, un testo così eccezionale e prestigioso che avrebbe meritato 5 stelle.
Peccato per l’indecente, vergognosa ed imbarazzante edizione italiana, piena di centinaia e centinaia di refusi, errori grammaticali, lettere e parole mancanti, aggiunte a caso o invertite, che non solo rendono fastidiosa ed irritante la lettura (che altrimenti sarebbe meravigliosa), ma sminuiscono e sviliscono tantissimo questo manuale così importante.
Ennesimo caso di trascuratezza ed inesistenza della figura del correttore di bozze.
E di inadeguatezza di una casa editrice (da 0 stelle) che tratta in questo modo, totalmente inaccettabile, un testo così eccezionale e prestigioso che avrebbe meritato 5 stelle.
August 28, 2022
Il Crime Classification Manual è stato (ed è tuttora, perché ogni tanto riprendo a sfogliarlo) una lettura fondamentale per alcuni lavori che sto svolgendo, tanto per l'analisi psico-socio-comportamentale dei soggetti quanto per le procedure investigative dell'FBI (raccolta prove, interrogatori ecc…). Il testo in questione, seppur tecnico, è preciso e veloce e mi sento di dire che possa essere adatto a tutti i curiosi o gli appassionati di true crime, in quanto contiene anche numerosi esempi di delitti reali.
La lettura di questo manuale mi ha davvero aperto un mondo.
La lettura di questo manuale mi ha davvero aperto un mondo.
June 6, 2024
Tomo interessante, con una traduzione molto buona. Fa un piccolo riassunto delle dinamiche che servono a capire e scoprire la maggior parte delle dinamiche criminose di quasi tutti(scrivo così vista la tendenza dell'essere umano a superarsi in cattiveria e malvagità) i casi di omicidi.
Consigliabile, principalmente, a chi sta facendo studi universitari in quella direzione
Consigliabile, principalmente, a chi sta facendo studi universitari in quella direzione
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