Behavioural crime linking in serial homicide

Psychology, Crime and Law

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 245-265

  Santtila, Pekka ^a   Pakkanen, Tom ^a   Zappala, Angelo ^b   Bosco, Dario ^b   Valkama, Maria ^a   Mokros, Andreas ^c  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b Center of Forensic Psychology   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behavioural consistency; Crime linking; Offender profiling; Serial homicide

Indexed keywords

EID: 47749124966     PISSN: 1068316X     EISSN: 14772744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10683160701739679     Document Type: Article

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