Crime Classification Manual: A Standard System for Investigating and Classifying Violent Crimes is often described as a criminologist's answer to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. Authored by Ann W. Burgess, Robert K. Ressler, John E. Douglas, and Allen G. Burgess, Crime Classification Manual has become an authoritative text in classifying violent crimes. A criminologist is defined as someone who studies aetiology of crime, criminal behavior, types of crime, and social reaction to crime. ... The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association, is the handbook used most often in diagnosing mental disorders in the United States and other countries. ... Colonel Robert K. Ressler Robert Ressler is a former FBI agent and author. ... John E. Douglas (born June 18, 1945) is a former FBI agent and one of the first profilers. ... A violent crime or crime of violence is a crime in which the offender uses or threatens violent force upon the victim. ...
Table of Contents (Second Edition)
Part I: Crime Analysis and Investigation
Chapter 1: Modus Operandi and the Signature Aspects of Violent Crime (John E. Douglas and Lauren K. Douglas)
Chapter 2: The Detection of Staging, Undoing, and Personation at the Crime Scene (John E. Douglas and Lauren K. Douglas)
Chapter 3: Prescriptive Interviewing: Interfacing the Interview and Interrogation with Crime Classification (Gregory M. Cooper)
Chapter 4: Classifying Crimes by Severity: From Aggravators to Depravity (Michael Welner)
Chapter 5: The New Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (Eric W. Witzig)
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