Evidence-Based Offender Profiling

Bryanna Fox is Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of South Florida and studies the psychological and developmental risk factors for criminal behavior, forensic psychology, and evidence-based policing. She previously served as an FBI Special Agent and research fellow in the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit and received an Early Career Award from the American Society of Criminology’s Division of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology in 2017. Her research can be found in outlets including Criminal Justice and Behavior, Psychological Bulletin, Law and Society Review, Social Forces, Development and Psychopathology, and the Journal of Criminal Justice.David P. Farrington, O.B.E., is Emeritus Professor of Psychological Criminology at the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University. He received the Stockholm Prize in 2013, and he has received the four major awards of the American Society of CriminologyAndreas Kapardis is an Emeritus Professor of Legal Psychology in the Department of Law at the University of Cyprus. He was formerly a faculty member in the School of Law at La Trobe University in Australia and is currently a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University. In recognition of his work, he was elected a Full Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2016 and is a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University. His research and teaching interests lie mainly in criminology, criminal justice, legal psychology, and penology.Olivia Hambly is a social researcher within the Government of the United Kingdom. Olivia received her PhD in 2018 from the International Research Centre for Investigative Psychology at the University of Huddersfield. Her thesis focused on the psychological interpretations of domestic burglary offender styles, patterns, and offender characteristics.

• Foreword: Lawrence W. ShermanChapter 1: Introduction to Evidence-Based Offender ProfilingChapter 2: Development of Offender ProfilingChapter 3: Progress Towards Evidence-Based Offender ProfilingChapter 4: Evidence-Based Offender Profiles and Evaluations in the United StatesChapter 5: International Replication of Evidence-Based Offender Profiles in the United KingdomChapter 6: The Future of Evidence-Based Offender Profiling

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