The book includes 39 articles, presented in 10 sections: The Investigation of Crime; Psychological Autopsy; Investigative Interviewing; Detecting Deception; Evaluating Testimony; Delinquents' Characteristics; Typologies of Criminals; Property Crime; Violent Crime; and Inferring Offender's From Offense Characteristics. The articles examine a variety of subjects, including: (1) certain qualities essential to an investigator; (2) the extent and nature of psychological services in police departments; (3) refining the cognitive interview; (4) towards a sociological model of the police informant; (5) differentiation of truthful and deceptive criminal suspects in behavior analysis interviews; (6) retracted confessions; (7) insurance fraud; (8) a comparison of murderers and their brothers; (9) psychological profiling; (10) the environmental range of serial rapists; (11) hunting serial violent criminals; and (12) psychic crime detectives. References, notes, figures, tables, appendixes, bibliographies, index