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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 364 EAN: 9780595332779 ISBN: 0595332773 Label: iUniverse, Inc. Manufacturer: iUniverse, Inc. Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 293 Publication Date: December 08, 2004 Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. Studio: iUniverse, Inc. Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Just the FactsThe work tends to be dry and mechanical, very much a textbook style. Dr. Girod would have done well to take a creative writing course at some point during his stellar academic career. Rating:  - Superficial OverviewVery good overview of the field, but a little overextended in its breadth. Much of the material was so superficial that it gave no real understanding of the topic that would be useful in a practical sense. It redeems itself with a good list of references for each topic so the reader could study further if one particular area was especially interesting. Rating:  - An enjoyable readI stumbled across this book while doing research for my graduate degree. I must say that besides presenting the information in a very clean and clear fashion, the author also has a killer sense of humour. I have read hundreds of academic books during my undergraduate and now graduate degree work and I have never laughed while reading an introduction to a textbook before (Dr. Girod fills it with some good jokes and stories and how they relate to the criminology theories). anyways, a great ... Read More Rating: - Review of Criminal Profiling bookThis was an excellent book in addition to the book I had for my online Criminal course. It gave very good specifics on criminal profiling and helped tremendously! 
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