Crime Classification Manual

Download or read book Crime Classification Manual written by John E. Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark book classifies the three major felonies--murder, arson, and sexual assault--based upon the motivation of the offender, standardizing in one place, for the first time, the language and terminology used throughout the criminal justice system. A decade in development, this work forms the basis of contemporary investigative "profiling", the highly acclaimed strategy enabling law enforcement personnel to solve a crime by generating a "profile" of the suspect. This will provide police officers and other law enforcement personnel, as well as mental health professionals, in any size community, access to the same information as used by the FBI to coordinate their investigations.