Offender
Profiling Series: Vol 2
Profiling
in Policy and Practice
Edited by David Canter & Laurence Alison (1999)
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Profiling in Policy and Practice
Petrus Van Duyne
Mobsters Are Human Too
This chapter describes a behavioural science approach
to the problem of organised crime. It describes the organised criminal
as a crime-entrepreneur, who is essentially a risk-entrepreneur. From
this perspective the chapter elaborates the potential for a behavioural
science contribution to police investigations in this field. It describes
the social-psychological profiling of crime-entrepreneurs and their
'landscape', as well as the potential contribution of psychologists
to the organised crime squads concerning interviewing, inner group processes,
trial preparation and (self) evaluation.
Petrus C. van Duyne,
psychologist and jurist, is professor in empirical, penal science at
the Tilburg University, Netherlands and advisor in the Dutch Central
Intelligence Service. He has done research on decision making by public
prosecutors and judges, fraud and organised crime. At the moment he
is leading research projects on financial investigation and money-laundering.
