Wayne Petherick

Alcohol, drugs and crime (with Nila Myers), Crime and deviance (2009)

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There are a great many factors that contribute to criminality. These include, but are...

An introduction to crime and deviance (with Claire Ferguson), Crime and deviance (2009)

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Criminological knowledge as it relates to concepts of deviance have been stagnating. Historically, new...

Behavioral consistency, the homology assumption and the problems of induction (with Claire Ferguson), Serial crime: Theoretical and practical issues in behavioral profiling (2009)

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The ultimate goal of profiling is to identify the major behavioral and personality characteristics...

Criminal profiling as expert evidence (with David Field, Andrew Lowe, and Elizabeth Fry), Serial crime: Theoretical and practical issues in behavioral profiling (2009)

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Profiling evidence has been accepted in courts in the United States in both trial...

Criminal profiling methods, Serial crime: Theoretical and practical issues in behavioral profiling (2009)

Extract: As an investigative aid, criminal profiling has received a great deal of attention from...

Cults, Crime and deviance (2009)

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Cults are a universal phenomenon, and can likely be found in some form in...

Induction and deduction in criminal profiling, Serial crime: Theoretical and practical issues in behavioral profiling (2009)

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Literature on criminal profiling has reached a considerable volume, including not only a quantity...

Metacognition in criminal profiling (with Barry Woodhouse), Serial crime: Theoretical and practical issues in behavioral profiling (2009)

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As with many professions, one of the more serious problems that confronts the profiling...

School shootings (with Brent E. Turvey), Forensic victimology: Examining violent crime victims in investigative and legal contexts (2009)

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As with any attack that occurs at an educational facility - to include grade...

School shootings and guns (with Brent E. Turvey and Jared Kreeger), Crime and deviance (2009)

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School shootings are a global phenomenon, as they occur in almost every country around...

Serial stalking: Looking for love in all the wrong places, Serial stalking: Looking for love in all the wrong places (2009)

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With the recent drafting of stalking legislation in most Western jurisdictions, our exposure to...

Stranger violence (with Brent E. Turvey), Forensic victimology: Examining violent crime victims in investigative and legal contexts (2009)

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A stranger is someone who is unknown or foreign. Stranger violence occurs when an...

The fallacy of accuracy in criminal profiling, Serial crime: Theoretical and practical issues in behavioral profiling (2009)

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The defining criterion by which the utility of a particular tool is often judged...

Victim lifestyle exposure (with Joe M. Diaz and Brent E. Turvey), Forensic victimology: Examining violent crime victims in investigative and legal contexts (2009)

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It has been said that for every crime there is at least one victim....

Victims of stalking, Forensic victimology: Examining violent crime victims in investigative and legal contexts (2009)

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Stalking involves a repeated pattern of intrusion and harassment by (most typically) one person...

Where to from here?, Serial crime: Theoretical and practical issues in behavioral profiling (2009)

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The history of profiling is easy to trace - after all, it has already...

Workplace violence (with Brent E. Turvey), Forensic victimology: Examining violent crime victims in investigative and legal contexts (2009)

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Workplace violence is defined by one authority as "violence or the threat of violence...

Offender profiling in Australia, Forensic psychology and criminology: An Australasian perspective (2008)

This important original work recognises the close relationship between criminology and forensic psychology. It offers...

Behavioural evidence analysis: Ideo-deductive method of criminal profiling (with Brent E. Turvey), Criminal profiling: An introduction to behavioral evidence analysis (2008)

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In the previous chapter, we learned that idiographic (individual case) study is the...

Criminal motivation (with Brent E. Turvey), Criminal profiling: An introduction to behavioral evidence analysis (2008)

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In criminal prosecution, the determination of motive is not necessary. While this may...

Criminal profiling, the scientific method, and logic (with Brent E. Turvey), Criminal profiling: An introduction to behavioral evidence analysis (2008)

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This chapter explains how valid inferences are made leaning deeply against the framework...

Nomothetic methods of criminal profiling (with Brent E. Turvey), Criminal profiling: An introduction to behavioral evidence analysis (2008)

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There are two ways of viewing the application of logic to the development...

Stalking, Criminal profiling: An introduction to behavioral evidence analysis (2008)

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Despite considerable media and academic interest in the phenomenon of stalkers and stalking...

Victimology (with Brent E. Turvey), Criminal profiling: An introduction to behavioral evidence analysis (2008)

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In the rush to investigate crime, it is not difficult to become distracted...

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An exploration of automobile insurance fraud (with Robyn Lincoln and Helene Wells), Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2003)

This exploratory study analyses claiming behaviour within the automobile insurance industry. A local insurance company...

Criminal profiling in the courtrooms: Behavioural investigative advice or bad character evidence? (with Gareth Norris), Cambrian law review (2011)

Criminal profiling has received considerable attention from media sources; sufficiently so to allow it to...