Dr. Wade Schindler - Powerpoint Presentations
Serial Killers - Overview Lecture

Scotia J. Hicks and Bruce D. Sales - Criminal Profiling: Developing an Effective Science and Practice

1 Introduction the Roots of Modern Profiling

2 Current Nonscientific Models of Profiling 

3 Problems with Nonscientific Profiling Models

4 The Current Model of Scientific Profiling

5 Problems With the Scientific Model of Profiling

6 From Goals to Theory

7 Crime Scene Evidence

8 Offender Characteristics - Motives, Personality, and Behavior

9 Motive and Behavior

10 Personality and Behavior

11 A Scientific Model of Profiling

12 Steps Toward Testing a Scientific Model of Profiling

13 Conclusion - Recommendations for Practice

Ronald Holmes - Profiling Violent Crimes: an investigative tool.

Holmes - Profiling Violent Crimes - 1996

David Cook - Powerpoint Presentation
Female Psychopathic Serial Killers



FBI Resources
Serial Murder: Multi-Disciplinary Prospectives for Investigators

Serial Murder Research

Beauregard, Rossmo and Proulx - Descriptive Model of the Hunting Process of Serial Sex Offenders - 2007

Haggerty - Modern Serial Killers - Crime, Media Culture - 2009

Haggerty argues that six modern developments in society gave rise to the phenomenon of serial homicide:

(a) the mass media and the attendant rise of a celebrity culture;
(b) a society of strangers;
(c) a type of mean/ends rationality that is largely divorced from value considerations;
(d) cultural frameworks of denigration which tend to implicitly single out some groups for greater predation;
(e) particular opportunity structures for victimization; and finally
(f) the notion that society can be engineered.

Dowden, Bennell and Bloomfield - A Systematic Review of the Profiling Literature Published Over the Past Three Decades - 2007