Profile of a Killer. Psychological Aspects of Criminal Profiling

Criminal profiling is just beginning to take shape as a professional activity in Russia. The content of the book Profile of a Killer. Psychological Aspects of Criminal Profiling is based on a review of real criminal cases that have occurred in the practices of domestic and foreign law enforcement agencies. You will learn about the motivations behind sexual crimes and the causes of criminal behavior. Genre sketches will send you into the darkest corners of a serial killer's soul, while professional expert chapters will allow you to engage with events from the perspective of different specialists: investigator, psychiatrist, psychologist. Will you be able to come to the solution before they do? The authors of the book — a specialist in clinical psychology and criminal profiling, Dean of the Faculty of Legal Psychology at MGPPU Nikolai Dvoryanchikov, legal psychologist, sexologist Dmitry Shipitsin, and lawyer Svetlana Nechesova — address the book to those studying the problems of criminal behavior associated with serial sexual crimes. The number of actors in this field is growing every year, ranging from ordinary citizens to workers in criminal investigations, psychologists, psychiatrists, sexologists, physiologists, neuropsychologists, and other representatives of science studying the foundations of human behavior, as well as forensic experts and criminologists. The authors hope that the content of this book will help advance the understanding of the complex motivational component of committing serial sexual crimes, which will contribute to their better resolution.