Mapping Murder, David Canter
Mapping Murder, David Canter
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Mapping Murder
The Secrets of Geographical Profiling

Author: David Canter

Narrator: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Unabridged: 12 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/30/2019

Synopsis

Criminals reveal who they are and where they live not just from how they commit their crimes, but also from the locations they choose.

This is the claim of renowned criminal psychologist and profiler David Canter. In this groundbreaking book, now fully revised and updated, Canter leads us into the labyrinthine psyche of serial killers, rapists, and other violent criminals, and reveals how geographical profiling is changing the way police work and our understanding of the criminal mind.

From Jack the Ripper to Fred West's house of horror and the recent Suffolk murders, Canter analyzes the geographical maps of killers' actions and the psychological maps of their thoughts to provide a fascinating insight into the most notorious criminals of all time.

About David Canter

David Canter is professor emeritus at the University of Liverpool, UK. Internationally known for developing the emerging field of investigative psychology, he has published widely on many aspects of social, environmental, and forensic psychology. His book Criminal Shadows received the Gold Dagger Award for Nonfiction and the Anthony Award for Best True Crime. He also wrote and presented a six-part TV documentary series on his work in geographical offender profiling, which was later published as his book Mapping Murder.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lisa

Apparently one of the main players in the field of geographical profiling, David Canter has taken this as the theme for this book, setting out the case for its (and his) preeminence with varying effect. This half success was coloured by Canter's propensity to go off on tangents that seemed unrelated......more

Goodreads review by Craig

Although I find geo spacial analysis, profiling and mind mapping interesting, what put me off this book was the author's propensity to critisize those investigations he wasn't involved in, but rate highly anything he was involved with. There were a few sections of this book which tended to slow the p......more

Goodreads review by Gra

Second book of Canter's that I've read, Criminal Shadows being the other. The titles should be flipped as this one is nothing much about geographical profiling where Criminal Shadows had more about the technique. Maybe trading standards should be brought in for false advertising? Anyway, like Crimin......more

Goodreads review by Tash

started strong but it dragged so much at the end. Also the last few chapters are totally off track.......more

Goodreads review by Becca

While there were definitely parts of this book I enjoyed, I feel that overall it was quite hit and miss. I found that there was quite a bit of repetition when the author was discussing methods of mapping crimes and therefore locating the criminals, although I did enjoy the more focused biographies o......more

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