Criminal profiling as a plotting activity based on abductive processes

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 829-849

  Verde, Alfredo ^a   Nurra, Antonio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b Licensed Psychologist   (Italy)

Author keywords

criminal profiling; epistemology; Peircean abduction; plotting

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHARACTER; CRIME; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; LOGIC; MENTAL DISEASE; PRISONER; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOPATHY; RAPE; SEXUAL CRIME; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VIOLENCE;

ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; CHARACTER; CRIME; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HOMICIDE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; LOGIC; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PRISONERS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; RAPE; SEX OFFENSES; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STEREOTYPING; VIOLENCE;

EID: 77957056039     PISSN: 0306624X     EISSN: 15526933     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306624X09339175     Document Type: Article

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