Killer Profile: Psychological Aspects of Criminal Profiling

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“Profile of a Killer. Psychological Aspects of Criminal Profiling” is a book about the psychological side of criminal profiling, which in Russia is only just emerging as an independent professional field. The publication is based on an analysis of real criminal cases from the practice of Russian and foreign law-enforcement agencies. You will learn about the motives behind sexual crimes and the factors underlying criminal behavior. Literary and journalistic sketches plunge into the dark depths of a serial killer’s inner world, while analytical chapters allow you to look at an investigation through the eyes of different specialists—an investigator, a psychiatrist, and a psychologist. Can you solve the mystery before the experts?

The authors are a clinical psychologist and a specialist in criminal profiling—Nikolay Dvoryanchikov, Dean of the “Legal Psychology” faculty at MGPPU; a legal psychologist and sexologist—Dmitry Shipitsyn; and a lawyer—Svetlana Nechesova. The book is intended for everyone studying criminal behavior, especially in the context of serial sexual crimes: from interested readers to criminal-investigation officers, psychologists, psychiatrists, sexologists, physiologists, neuropsychologists, researchers of human behavior, experts from forensic institutions, and criminalists. The authors believe the material will help you understand the complex motivations behind such acts more deeply and thereby improve the effectiveness of uncovering them.

An additional PDF material is included with the publication and is available to download from the audiobook page on the website after purchase. Design: LLC “AST Publishing House”, 2023.