Access to full-text SAGE journal articles that have been carefully selected to support and expand on the concepts presented in each chapter. Journal articles can act as an ideal resource to help support your assignments and studies.

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Article 1: Trojan, C., & Salfati, C.G. (February 2011). Linking Criminal History to Crime Scene Behavior in Single Victim and Serial Homicide: Implications for Offender Profiling Research. Homicide Studies 15(1), 3-31.

Questions that apply to this article:

1. What is the homology assumption or the “A to C equation”? What does the empirical literature say about it?
2. What do the results of this study suggest regarding offender profiling?
3. What is the importance of an offender’s criminal history in single victim and serial homicides?

Article 2: Canter, D. (2004). Geographical Profiling of Criminals. Medico-Legal Journal 72(2), 53-66.

Questions that apply to this article:

1. What is the relationship between geographical profiling and psychological or offender profiling?
2. What is a mental map? Explain.
3. What is Dragnet analysis, as defined by the author?