Title
Criminal profiling, the scientific method, and logic
Date of this Version
4-1-2008
Document Type
Book Chapter
Abstract
Extract:
This chapter explains how valid inferences are made leaning deeply against the framework of criminal profiling. It requires the use of the scientific method, an applied understanding of the science of logic, and knowing how to know when you are wrong. It also requires some understanding of bias.
Publication Details
Interim status: Citation only.
Petherick, W. A. & Turvey, B. E. (2008). Criminal profiling, the scientific method, and logic. In B. E. Turvey (Ed.), Criminal profiling: An introduction to behavioural evidence analysis (pp. 43-74). Massachusetts, United States: Academic Press- Elsevier Science. ISBN: 9780123741004
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2008 HERDC submission. FoR code: 1602
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