Grover Maurice Godwin

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Grover Maurice Godwin

Hunting Serial Predators

WebPage: http://www.investigativepsych.com

About the Author

Bibliography

First British Edition CRC Press (1999)

Hunting Serial Predators
See Review by Liz Lees
A Multivariate Classification Approach to Profiling Violent Behaviour
Where do investigators search for clues when there is very little forensic evidence? Homicide detectives in Raleigh, North Carolina, faced this exact dilemma in 1996, when they spent most of that year chasing a phantom. Someone was killing poor, black women on the city's downtown streets. But with very little evidence other than the bodies that kept turning up, police had no solid leads ... until an academic sleuth -- using a new method for profiling serial murderers -- formed a profile of the killer that turned out to be strikingly similar to the suspect later arrested for the brutal killings.
Hunting Serial Predators: A Multivariate Classification Approach to Profiling Violent Behaviour examines this new method in-depth. It presents a facet classification of serial murderers and their crime scene actions based on empirical and repeatable studies, and argues that such an empirical process to analysing their behaviour is necessary to make logical decisions on how to detect and apprehend them.
In an attempt to avoid confusion inherent in the many imprecise terms describing serial murderers, this comprehensive work also introduces Investigative Process Management. This approach encompasses all applications of psychology that have the objective of improving the investigation of serial murder, and crime in general.
With its new, cutting-edge classification system, as well as thorough review of existing models, Hunting Serial Predators helps facilitate significant advances in homicide investigation, etiology, and treatment.
Features:

Introduces an empirical/theoretical classification model of serial killers' crime scene behaviours

Moves away from a clinical approach of classifying serial killers and introduces a behavioural/attachment model

Provides a case study demonstrating how the methods introduced in this book were applied in an actual serial murder case Uses data drawn from various U.S. police sources on the crime scene actions of 107 U.S. serial killers
‘Dr. Godwin has written a thorough and eminently readable work that is unique in the growing literature on serial murder. Combining a judicious review of past approaches to crime scene behaviour, crime reconstruction, and classification theory, with a meticulous presentation of the newest precision investigative methodology, he has made a contribution to the field that is essential reading for mental health and law enforcement professionals.’ John Philpin, retired forensic psychologist/profiler

About The Author
Dr. Maurice Godwin lives in Raleigh, North Carolina. He is an adjunct professor at Vermont College of Norwich University in their distance learning MA Degree program with a concentration in criminal investigative psychology.
He is a former police officer in the State of North Carolina. Dr. Godwin was one of the first project coordinators for a National Institute of Justice grant for implementing community policing in a rural area. Dr. Godwin is also the author of journal articles on psychological and geographical profiling.
Dr. Godwin owns his own private consulting group, and he has worked as a consultant to police and others in developing psychological and geographical profiles. He has lectured in the United States and Europe on serial murder, cyber stalking, and criminal investigative analysis.
Dr. Godwin received his Associate's degree from Vance-Granville Community College, a Bachelor's degree from Trevecca Nazarene University, a Master’s Degree from Indiana State University, and his doctorate from The University of Liverpool, England.
Dr. Godwin's teaching and research includes concentration in areas of applied social psychology and criminology. He has an extensive background in using these areas of applied disciplines to develop models of criminal behaviour, such as theoretical and operational expert systems for linking crimes. He has provided assistance to law enforcement in several states in regard to psychological and geographical profiling - with positive results.

Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.

Hunting Serial Predators (CRC Press, 1999)

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