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Recommended Professional Resources

Resource Links

International Association of Forensic Criminologists

   http://www.profiling.org/

Free 50 State Motor Vehicle information

   http://www.dmvnv.com/50_state_dmv_list.html

Free Reverse Telephone Directory

  http://www.infospace.com/_1_2KH4U3B02BLSOHS__info.nerd/wp/reverse.htm

Forensic Solutions, LLC (Behavioral profiling resources)

   http://www.corpus-delicti.com/

Innocence Project

   http://innocenceproject.org/

Innocence Project of Texas
   http://ipoftexas.org/

Texas Association of Licensed Investigators

   http://www.tali.org/

Texas Center for Actual Innocence, University of Texas School of Law

   http://www.utexas.edu/law/academics/clinics/innocence/

Texas Department of Public Safety, Private Security Bureau (PSB)

   http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/psb/

Texas Innocence Network, University of Houston Law Center

   http://www.law.uh.edu/faculty/ddow2/dpage2/innocence.html

Texas PSB Statewide/Houston Metro area complaint reporting

   Private_Security_Bureau@txdps.state.tx.us  

   PSB_HoustonComplaint@txdps.state.tx.us

The American Investigative Society of Cold Cases

   http://aisocc.com

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Bevel, T., & Ross, M. G. (2002). Bloodstain pattern analysis (2^nd ed.). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

Bureau of Justice Statistics. (1996, March). Child victimizers: Violent offenders and their victims (NCJ-153258). Washington, D.C.: Author.

Canter, D.V. (2008). Criminal psychology: Topics in applied psychology. Hachette Livre, UK: Hoder Education.

Canter, D.V., Alison, L.J., Alison, E., & Wentink, N. (2004). The organized/disorganized typology of serial murder: Myth or model? Psychology, Public Policy and Law, 10 (3), 293-320.

Canter, D., Coffey, T., Huntley, M., & Missen, C., (2000). Predicting serial killers’ home base using a decision support system. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 16(4), 457-478.

Canter, D., & Hammond, L., (2006). A comparison of the efficacy of different decay functions in geographical profiling for a sample of US serial killers [electronic version]. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 3(2), 91-103.

Canter, D. V., & Youngs, D. (2009). Investigative psychology: Offender profiling and the analysis of criminal action. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Concannon, D. M., Fain, B., Fain, D., Honeycutt, A.B., Price-Sharps, J., & Sharps, M. (2008). Kidnapping: An investigator's guide to profiling. Burlington, MA: Academic Press.

DeLisi, M., & Conis, P. J. (2008). Violent offenders: Theory, research, public policy, and practice. Boston: Jones and Bartlett.

DiMaio, V. J., & DiMaio, D. (2001). Forensic pathology (2^nd ed.). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

DiMaio, V. J. M. (1999). Gunshot wounds: Practical aspects of firearms, ballistics, and forensic techniques (2^nd ed.). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

Douglas, J. E., Burgess, A. W., Burgess, A. G., & Ressler, R. K. (Eds.). (2006). Crime classification manual: A standard system for investigating and classifying violent crimes (2^nd ed.). San Francisco: Josey-Bass.

Douglas, J. E., Ressler, R. K., Burgess, A. W., & Hartman, C. R. (1986). Criminal profiling from crime scene analysis. Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 4(4), 401-421.

Egger, S. A. (2002). The killers among us: An examination of serial murder and its investigation. (2^nd ed.) Illinois: Prentice Hall.

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Geberth, V. J. (2003). Sex-related homicide and death investigation: Practical and clinical perspectives. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

Godwin, G. M. (2001). Criminal psychology and forensic technology: A collaborative approach to effective profiling. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

Godwin, M. (2002). Reliability, validity, and utility of criminal profiling typologies. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 17(1), 1-18.

Godwin, G. M., & Rosen, F. (2005). Tracker: Hunting down serial killers. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press.

Hall, R. C. W., & Hall, R. C. W. (2007). A profile of pedophilia: Definition, characteristics of offenders, recidivism, treatment outcomes, and forensic issues. Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 82(4).

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Hickey, E. W. (Ed.). (2006). Sex crimes and paraphilia. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, Prentice Hall.

Hickey, E. W. (2006). Serial murderers and their victims. Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth.

Hicks, S. J., & Sales, B. D. (2006). Criminal profiling: Developing an effective science and practice. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Holmes, R. M., & Holmes, S. T. (1998). Contemporary perspectives on serial murder. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Holmes, R. M., & Holmes, S. T. (2009). Profiling violent crimes: An investigative tool (4th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Inbau, F. E., Reid, J. E., Buckley, J. P., & Jayne, B. C. (2004). Criminal interrogation and confessions (4^th ed.). Boston: Jones and Bartlett.

Keppel, R. D., & Birnes, W. J. (1997). Signature killers: Interpreting the calling cards of the serial murderer. New York: Pocket Books.

Keppel, R. D. (Ed.). (2006). Offender profiling (2^nd ed.). Mason, OH: Thompson.

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Kocsis, R. N. (2006). Criminal profiling: Principles and practice. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

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Kocsis, R. N., Irwin, H. J., Hayes, A. F., & Nunn, R. (2000, March). Expertise in psychological profiling: A comparative assessment. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 15(3), 311-331.

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Peters, J. M., & Murphy, W. D. (1992, March). Profiling: Child sexual abusers: Psychological considerations. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 19(1), 166-179.

Petherick, W. (2006). Theoretical and practical issues in behavioral profiling. Burlington, MA: Elsevier.

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Ressler, R. K., Burgess, A. W., & Douglas, J. E. (1992). Sexual homicides: Patterns and motives. New York: The Free Press.

Richards, H. J., Washburn, J. J.; Craig, R., Taheri, A., & Yanisch, D. (2004, August). Typing rape offenders from their offense narratives. Individual Differences Research, 2 (2), 97-108.

Saferstein, R. (2004). Criminalistics: An introduction to forensic science (8^th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.

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Torres, A. N., Boccaccini, M. T., & Miller, H. A. (2006, Feb). Perceptions of the validity and utility of criminal profiling among forensic psychologists and psychiatrists. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice (PsycARTICLES), 37(1), 51-58.

Turvey, B. E. (2008). Criminal profiling: An introduction to behavioral evidence analysis (3^rd ed.). San Diego, CA: Elsevier Academic Press.

Winerman, L. (2004, July/August). Criminal Profiling: The reality behind the myth. Monitor on Psychology, 35 (7). American Psychological Association.