Commentary: Geographic heuristics or shortcuts to failure?: Response to snook et al

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 651-654

  Rossmo, D Kim ^a  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; CRIMINAL LAW; CRIMINOLOGY; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; OFFENDER; POLICE; POLICY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL CRIME; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; VICTIM;

EID: 22944461101     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1144     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Brantingham, P. J., & Brantingham, P. L. (1984). Patterns in crime. New York: Macmillan.
2. Brantingham, P. L., & Brantingham, P. J. (1981). Notes on the geometry on crime. In P. J. Brantingham, & P. L. Brantingham (Eds.), Environmental criminology (pp. 27-54). Beverly Hills: Sage.
3. Canter, D. V., & Larkin, P. (1993). The environmental range of serial rapists. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 13, 63-69.
4. Canter, D. V., Coffey, T., Huntley, M., & Missen, C. (2000). Predicting serial killers' home base using a decision support system. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 16, 457-478.
5. Kocsis, R. N., & Irwin, H. J. (1997). An analysis of spatial patterns in serial rape, arson, and burglary: the utility of the circle theory of environmental range for psychological profiling. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 4, 195-206.
6. MacKay, R. E. (1999). Geographic profiling: a new tool for law enforcement. The Police Chief, December pp. 51-59.
7. Rossmo, D. K. (2000). Geographic profiling. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
8. Rossmo, D. K., Davies, A., & Patrick, M. (2004). Exploring the geo-demographic relationship between stranger rapists and their offences (Special Interest Series). London: Policing and Reducing Crime Unit, Home Office.
9. Snook, B., Canter, D. V., & 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.
10. Snook, B., Taylor, P, J., & Bennell, C. (2004). Geographic profiling: the fast, frugal, and accurate way. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 18, 105-121. DOI: 10.1002/acp.956.
11. Tamura, M., & Suzuki, M. (2000). Characteristics of serial arsonists and crime scene geography in Japan. In A. Czerederecka, T. Jśkiewicz-Obydzińska, & J. Wójcikiewicz (Eds.), Forensic psychology and law: Traditional questions and new ideas (pp. 259-264). Kraków: Institute of Forensic Science Publishers.
12. Taylor, P. J. (1977). Quantitative methods in geography. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press.
13. Thompson, M. (1996). Zeroing in on the serial killer. RCMP Gazette, 58(3), 14-15.
14. Warren, J. I., Reboussin, R., & Hazelwood, R. R. (1995). The geographic and temporal sequencing of serial rape (Federal Bureau of Investigation). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
15. Warren, J. I., 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, 35-59.