Geographical Offender Profiling (Geographic profiling)

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Brantingham, P. L., & Brantingham P. J. (1981). Notes on the Geometry of Crime. In P. J. Brantingham, & P. L Brantingham (Eds.), Environmental Criminology (pp. 27-54). Beverley Hills: Sage Publications.

Canter, D. (2004). Geographic Profiling of Criminals. Medico-legal Journal, 72, 53- 66.

Canter, D. (2005). Confusing Operational Predicaments and Cognitive Explorations: Comments on Rossmo and Snook et al. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 19(5), 663-668.

Canter, D., Coffey, T., Huntley, M., & Missen, C. (2000). Predicting Serial Killers' Home Base Using a Decision Support System. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 16, 457-478.

Canter, D. V., & Gregory, A. (1994). Identifying the Residential Location of Rapists. Journal of the Forensic Science Society, 34, 169-175.

Canter, D. & Hammond, L. (2006). A comparison of the efficacy of different decay functions in geographical profiling for a sample of US serial killers. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 3, 91-103.

Canter, D., & Hammond, L. (2007). Prioritizing Burglars: Comparing the Effectiveness of Geographic Profiling Methods. In press.

Canter, D., & Hodge, S. (2000). Criminals' Mental Maps. In L. S. Turnbull, E. H.

Hendrix & B. D. Dent (Eds.), Atlas of Crime, Mapping the Criminal Landscape (pp 187-191). Phoenix, Arizona: Oryx Press.

Canter, D., & Larkin, P. (1993). The Environmental Range of Serial Rapists. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 13, 63-69.

Canter, D., & Shalev, K. (2000). Putting Crime in its Place: Psychological Process in Crime Site Location. Paper for Wheredunit? Investigating the Role of Place in Crime and Criminality. Crime Mapping Research Center of the NIJ, San Diego.

Canter, D., & Snook, B. (1999). Modelling the Home Location of Serial Offenders. Paper presented at the Third Annual International Crime Mapping Research Conference, Orlando, December.

Catalano, P. (2000). Applying geographical analysis to serial crime investigations to predict the location of future targets and determine offender residence. Unpublished master's thesis, University of Western Australia, Australia.

Clarke, R., & Felson, M. (1993). Routine Activity and Rational Choice. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers.

Costello, A., & Wiles, P. (2001). GIS and the Journey to Crime: An Analysis of Patterns in South Yorkshire. In A. Hirschfield & K. Bowers (Eds.), Mapping and Analysing Crime Data: Lessons from Research and Practice (pp. 27-60). London: Taylor and Francis.

Davies, A., & Dale, A. (1995). Locating the Stranger Rapist. London Home Office Police Department, Special Interest Series Paper 3.Downs, R. M., & Stea, D. (1973). Cognitive maps and spatial behaviour: Process and products. In R. Downs, & D. Stea (Eds.), Image and environment (pp. 8-26). Chicago: Aldine.

Downs, R. M., & Stea, D. (1977). Maps in Minds. London: Harper and Row.

Edwards, M. J., & Grace, R. C. (2006). Analysing the offence locations and residential base of serial arsonists in New Zealand. Australian Psychologist, 41(3), 219-226.

Fritzon, K. (2001). An examination of the relationship between distance travelled and motivational aspects of arson. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 21, 45-60.

Gabor, T., & Gottheil, E. (1984). Offender Characteristics and Spatial Mobility: An Empirical Study and Some Policy Implications. Journal of Criminology, 26, 267-281. Harries, K., & LeBeau, J. (2007).Issues in the Geographic Profiling of Crime: Review and Commentary. In press.

Kind, S. (1987). Navigational Ideas and the Yorkshire Ripper Investigation. Journal of Navigation, 40, 385-393.

Laukkanen, M., & Santtila, P. (2005). Predicting the residential location of a serial commercial robber. Forensic Science International, 157, 71-82.

LeBeau, J. L. (1987a). The Journey to Rape: Geographic Distance and the Rapist's Method of Approaching the Victim. Journal of Police Science and Administration, 15, 129-136.

LeBeau, J. L. (1987b). The Methods and Measures of Centrography and the Spatial Dynamics of Rape. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 3, 125-141.

LeBeau, J. L. (1987c). Patterns of Stranger and Serial Rape Offending: Factors Distinguishing Apprehended and at Large Offenders. The Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, 78 (2), 309-326.

Lundrigan, S., & Canter, D. (2001a). A Multivariate Analysis of Serial Murderers' Disposal Site Location Choice. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 21, 423-432.

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Lundrigan, S., & Canter, D. (2001b). Research Report: Spatial Patterns of Serial Murder: An Analysis of Disposal Site Location Choice. Behavioural Sciences and the Law, 19, 595-610.

Meaney, R. (2004). Commuters and Marauders: An Examination of the Spatial Behaviour of Serial Criminals. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 1 (2), 121-137.

Nichols, W. W. Jr. (1980). Mental maps, social characteristics and criminal mobility. In D. E. Georges-Abeyie & K. D. Harries, (Eds.), Crime: A Spatial Perspective (pp.156-166). Columbia University Press.

Paulsen, D.J. (2006). Connecting the dots: Assessing the accuracy of geographic profiling software. Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management, 29(2), 306-334.

Paulsen, D. J. (2006). Human versus machine: A comparison of the accuracy of geographic profiling methods. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 3, 77-89.

Paulsen, D.J. (2007). Improving Geographic Profiling through Commuter/ Marauder Prediction. In Press.

Pettiway, L. E. (1982). Mobility of Burglars and Robbery Offenders. Urban Affairs Quarterly, 18(2), 255-270.

Phillips, P. D. (1980). Characteristics and typology of the journey to crime. In D. E. Georges-Abeyie & K. D. Harries, (Eds.), Crime: A Spatial Perspective. Columbia University Press.

Rengert, G. F., Piquero, A. R., & Jones, P. R. (1999). Distance Decay Re-Examined. Criminology, 37 (2), 427-425.

Rhodes, W. M., & Conly, C. (1981). Crime and Mobility: An Empirical Study. In P. J. Brantingham, & P. L. Brantingham (Eds.), Environmental Criminology (pp. 167-188). Beverley Hills: Sage Publications.

Rossmo, D. K. (1995). Place, space, and police investigations: Hunting serial violent criminals. In J. E. Eck & D. L. Weisburd (Eds.), Crime and place: Crime prevention studies, Vol. 4 (pp. 217-235). Monsey, NY: Criminal Justice Press.

Rossmo, K. (1997). Geographic Profiling. In J. L. Jackson and D. A. Bekerian (Eds.), Offender Profiling: Theory, Research and Practice, (pp 159-176). New York: John Wiley and Sons.

Rossmo, K. (2005). Geographic Heuristics or Shortcuts to Failure?: Response to Snook et al. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 19 (5), 531-678.

Santtila, P., Korpela, S., & Hakkanen, H. (2004). Expertise and Decision Making in the Linking of Car Crime Series. Psychology, Crime & Law, 10(2), 97-112.

Santtila, P., Zappala, A., Laukkanen, M., & Picozzi, M. (2003). Testing the utility of a geographical profiling approach in three rape series of a single offender: A case study. Forensic Science International, 131, 42-52.

Sarangi, S. & Youngs, D. (2006). Spatial patterns of Indian serial burglars with relevance to geographical profiling. . Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 3, 105-115.

Snook, B. (2004). Individual Differences in Distances Travelled by Serial Burglars. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 1 (1), 53-66.

Snook, B., Canter, D., & Bennell, C. (2002). Predicting the Home Location of Serial Offenders: A Preliminary Comparison of the Accuracy of Human Judges with a Geographic Profiling System. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 20, 109-118.

Snook, B., Cullen, R. M., Mokros, A., & Harbort, S. (2005). Serial Murderers' Spatial Decisions: Factors That Influence Crime Location Choice. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 2(3), pp 147-164.

Snook, B., Wright, M. House, J. C., Alison, L. J. (2006). Searching for a needle in a needle stack: Combining criminal careers and journey-to-crime research for criminal suspect prioritization. Police Practice and Research, 7(3), 217-230.

Snook, B., Zito, M., Bennell, C., & Taylor, P. J. (2005). On the complexity and accuracy of geographic profiling strategies. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 21(1), 1-26.

Tamura, M., & Suzuki, M. (2000). Characteristics of Serial Arsonists and Crime Scene Geography in Japan. In A. Czerederecka, T. Jaśkiewicz-Obydzińska and J.

Wójcikiewicz (Eds.) Forensic Psychology and Law: Traditional Questions and New Ideas, (pp. 259-264). Kraków, Poland: Institute of Forensic Research in Cracow, Poland.

Van Koppen, P. J., & De Keiser, J. W. (1997). Desisting Distance Decay: On the Aggregation of Individual Crime Trips. Criminology, 35 (2), 505-513.

Van Koppen, P. J., & Jansen, R. W. (1998). The Road to Robbery: Travel Patterns in Commercial Robberies. British Journal of Criminology, 38 (2), 230-246.

Walker, J., Golden, J., & Van Houten, A. (2001). The Geographic Link Between Sex Offenders and Potential Victims: A Routine Activities Approach. Justice Research Policy, 3(2), 15-33.

Warren, J., Reboussin, R., Hazelwood, R. R., Cummings, A., Gibbs, N., & Trumbetta, S. (1998). Crime Scene and Distance Correlates of Serial Rape. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 14 (1), 35-59.

White, R. C. (1932). The Relation of Felonies to Environmental Factors in Indianapolis. Social Forces 10(4), 498-509.

Wiles, P., & Costello, A. (2000). The "road to nowhere": The evidence for travelling criminals. Home Office research study 207.

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