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Offender profiling
No full textThose investigating crimes have always tried to formulate some idea of the
characteristics of unknown culprits as an aid to finding and convicting them.
This parallels the generals of Ancient Rome building a picture of the Barbarian
leaders they would face in battle. It is therefore not surprising, as discussed by
Canter (1995a), that as long ago as 1888, when Jack the Ripper stalked the
streets of London, some attempt was made to produce a description of the
person who had committed these still unsolved crimes
Contemporary Challenges in Investigative Psychology: Revisiting the Canter Offender Profiling Equations
No full textA quarter of a century ago the FBI drew attention to what investigators have long known: Deductions about the likely perpetrator can be drawn from a consideration, in detail, of the crime itself (Douglas et al., 1986). Although thrown into high relief much earlier in the writings of Arthur Conan Doyle, the FBI drew particular attention to this process and gave it the label ‘Offender Profiling’. Coming from a scientifically grounded psychological perspective, David Canter saw that the process being alluded to was a rather more profound one and, as a first step in unpacking this, tried to specify the central question that was being implied by the profiling process. This led him to the assertion that the relationship between actions and characteristics was one that, in mathematical terms, should be represented as a canonical form (Canter, 1993)
David Hayward, Lisa Neville, Ben Bodna and Meredith Canter, 1995
No full textDr. David Hayward with members of "The People Together" project, which grew out of the Victorian Community Summit held in 1993. Left - Right: David Hayward, Lecturer, Sociology; Lisa Nevile; Ben Bodna and Meredith Canter. Swinburne Staff News 2 March 1995
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The David W. Fentress Family Letters, 1856-1969
No full textTranscript of a letter by an unidentified author to David Fentress regarding sharing federal newspapers and the banning of federal newspapers in some areas. The author passes on the news of the war including the destruction of the Federal merchantmen by the Confederate fleet. He passes along world news: Russia preparing to go to War with Europe and how that could negatively affect the Confederacy. There is also speculation on the future of the war
The David W. Fentress Family Letters, 1856-1969
No full textTranscript of a letter by an unidentified author to David Fentress regarding sharing federal newspapers and the banning of federal newspapers in some areas. The author passes on the news of the war including the destruction of the Federal merchantmen by the Confederate fleet. He passes along world news: Russia preparing to go to War with Europe and how that could negatively affect the Confederacy. There is also speculation on the future of the war
An Overview of Behaviour in Fires
No full textThe major differences between fires in the patterns of behaviour that are associated
with them are not due to variations between the personalities of the people present
or to particular physical details of the design of the buildings involved. Rather they
relate to the type of 'place' in which the fires occur. The term 'place' here is used
in the sense discussed by Canter (1977), implying a combination of social and
physical processes that give any setting its particular qualities. In the parlance of
the fire brigades a place is very similar in meaning to a 'building occupancy',
because each occupancy has its own characteristic physical structure as well as its
own type of organisation and associated fire risk. The following summaries will
therefore consider fires in relation to the type of setting in which they occur.
In order to clarify and elaborate these aspects, details of behaviour in various
types of buildings are worthy of closer consideration
Levels and Variations of Violation in Rape.
No full textThis chapter investigates the variations in crime scene behaviour revealed in a sample of victim statements in cases of stranger sexual assault. Building on previous findings by Canter and Heritage (1990), and Canter (1994), it was hypothesised that there existed a scale of differing levels of violation by the offender. This scale, based upon actions in the offence, ranged from personal violation, through to physical violation and finally, at the most extreme level, sexual violation. Offences could also be differentiated at the personal and physical levels in terms of hostile, controlling, stealing or involving thematic emphases to the criminal’s actions.
To test these hypotheses, crime scene data from the first detected offences of 112 British rapists were analysed using a multi-dimensional scaling procedure to explore the relationships amongst crime scene actions. The results provided empirical support for the four action themes as different expressions of various intensities of violation. The implications that these findings have for the investigation of stranger sexual assault and treatment of victims are discussed
Criminal narrative experience: relating emotions to offence narrative roles during crime commission
No full textA neglected area of research within criminality has been that of the experience of the offence for the offender. The present study investigates the emotions and narrative roles that are experienced by an offender while committing a broad range of crimes and proposes a model of Criminal Narrative Experience (CNE). Hypotheses were derived from the Circumplex of Emotions (Russell, 1997), Frye (1957), Narrative Theory (McAdams, 1988) and its link with Investigative Psychology (Canter, 1994). The analysis was based on 120 cases. Convicted for a variety of crimes, incarcerated criminals were interviewed and the data were subjected to Smallest Space Analysis (SSA). Four themes of Criminal Narrative Experience (CNE) were identified: Elated Hero, Calm Professional, Distressed Revenger and Depressed Victim in line with the recent theoretical framework posited for Narrative Offence Roles (Youngs & Canter, 2012). The theoretical implications for understanding crime on the basis of the Criminal Narrative Experience (CNE) as well as practical implications are discussed
Portrait of author David Foster at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011 /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author David Foster at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
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