Contents

Figures and Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. The Study of Murder

2. Growing Up to Murder: The Social Environment and Formative Events

3. Preoccupation with Murder: Patterned Responses

4. Antecedent Behaviors and the Act of Murder

5. After the Murder

6. A Motivational Model for Sexual Homicide

7. The National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime

8. Crime Scene and Profile Characteristics of Organized and Disorganized Murderers

9. Criminal Profiling from Crime Scene Analysis

10. The Role of Forensic Pathology in Criminal Profiling
James L. Luke, M.D.

11. Interviewing Convicted Murderers

12. The Police Artist and Composite Drawings
Horace J. Heafner

13. The Victim’s Family and Its Response to Trauma

14. Victims: Lessons Learned for Responses to Sexual Violence
Daniel L. Carter, Robert A. Prentky, and Ann W. Burgess

15. Murderers: A Postscript

Appendix: VICAP Crime Analysis Report

Index

About the Authors