We would like to announce the following publications have been authored by one of our members.
Published Works
Published Works
Autoerotic Fatalities
Authors: Robert R. Hazelwood, Park E. Dietz, Ann W. Burgess; This book deals with the empirical study of 150 deaths occurring during the practice of dangerous autoeroticism. It is something of a hybrid between a text with case materials and a research monograph. At the time of its’ printing in 1983, the publishing industry was [...]
Contemporary Rorschach Interpretation
Authors: J. Reid Meloy, Marvin W. Acklin, Carl B. Gacono, James F. Murray, Charles A. Peterson; Appreciation of the beauty and complexity of the human mind when perceiving an ambiguous stimulus led Dr. Hermann Rorschach to develop his scientific method eighty years ago. Full of gratitude for his brief life and work, the editors hope [...]
Criminal Investigative Failures
Author: D. Kim Rossmo; What causes competent and dedicated investigators to make avoidable mistakes, jeopardizing the successful resolution of their cases? Authored by a 21-year police veteran and university research professor, Criminal Investigative Failures comprehensively defines and discusses the causes and problems most common to failed investigations. More importantly, it outlines realistic strategies for avoiding [...]
Dark Dreams: A Legendary FBI Profiler Examines Homicide and the Criminal Mind
Authors: Roy Hazelwood, Stephen G. Michaud; Profiler Roy Hazelwood is the world’s leading expert on the strangest and most dangerous of all aberrant offenders–the sexual criminal. In Dark Dreams he reveals the twisted motives and perverse thinking that go into the most reprehensible crimes. He also catalogs the innovative and remarkably effective techniques–techniques that he [...]
Geographic Profiling
Author: D. Kim Rossmo As any police officer who has ever walked a beat or worked a crime scene knows, the street has its hot spots, patterns, and rhythms: drug dealers work their markets, prostitutes stroll their favorite corners, and burglars hit their favorite neighborhoods. But putting all the geographic information together in cases of [...]
Practical aspects of rape investigation: A multidisciplinary approach
Authors: Robert R. Hazelwood, Ann W. Burgess; U.S. Justice Department statistics indicate that only 26 percent of all rapes or attempted rapes are reported to law enforcement officials, and only slightly more than half of these result in the arrest of a suspect. Part of the problem lies in the public’s lack of faith in [...]
Stalking, Threatening, and Attacking Public Figures
Authors: J. Reid Meloy, Lorraine Sheridan, Jens Hoffmann; Public figures require attention, whether from a constituency who votes them in or out of office, shareholders who decide their economic benefit to the corporation, or fans who judge their performances. However, on the periphery of this normal attention resides a very real risk; that of a [...]
The Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Model of Collaboration between Law Enforcement and Mental Health
Authors: Michael T. Compton, Beth Broussard, Mark Munetz, Janet R. Oliva, Amy C. Watson; Collaborations between the law enforcement and mental health communities have become vital as law enforcement officers are often first-line responders in crisis situations involving individuals with mental illnesses. A nationally recognized example of a pre-booking jail diversion program, the Crisis Intervention [...]
The Evil That Men Do: FBI Profiler Roy Hazelwood’s Journey into the Minds of Sexual Predators
Authors: Stephen G. Michaud, Roy Hazelwood; Twenty-two years in the FBI, sixteen of them as a member of the Bureau’s Behavioral Science Unit. Thousands of homicides, rapes, suicides, and other gruesome crimes. Roy Hazelwood, like many investigators, has seen it all. But unlike most, he’s gone further — into the dark and twisted psyches of [...]
The Mark of Cain: Psychoanalytic Insight and the Psychopath
Author: J. Reid Meloy; The Mark of Cain makes available for the first time the accumulated psychoanalytic understanding of the psychopathic mind. Editor Reid Meloy, a leading authority on the psychology of the psychopath, has brought together in a single collection the most historically important psychoanalytic papers on the psychopath – papers by Helene Deutsch, [...]
The Psychology of Stalking: Clinical and Forensic Perspectives
Author: J. Reid Meloy; The Psychology of Stalking is the first scholarly book on stalking ever published. Virtually every serious writer and researcher in this area of criminal psychopathology has contributed a chapter. These chapters explore stalking from social, psychiatric, psychological and behavioral perspectives. New thinking and data are presented on threats, pursuit characteristics, psychiatric [...]
The Psychopathic Mind: Origins, Dynamics, and Treatment
Author: J. Reid Meloy; Forensic psychologist Reid Meloy identifies psychopathology as a deviant development disturbance characterized by inordinate instinctual aggression and the absence of a capacity bond. It is the definitive book on the subject. “This is a superb presentation of what is currently known about the psychopathic personality and its functioning. The discussion is [...]
The Rorschach Assessment of Aggressive and Psychopathic Personalities
Authors: Carl B. Gacono, J. Reid Meloy; This book provides a definitive empirical study of antisocial character pathology and its assessment through the use of the Rorschach. Drawing upon a decade of research with nearly 400 individuals in various hospitals and prisons, the authors paint an extraordinary intrapsychic picture of the personality structure and psychodynamics [...]
The Scientific Pursuit of Stalking
Author: J. Reid Meloy; Dr. Reid Meloy’s ninth book provides his vast research on stalking and obsessional following and summarizes the implications of that research. Framed with a beautifully haunting cover painting by Konstantin Dikovsky titled, “The Hidden,” Dr. Meloy has produced the most comprehensive chronology of what we know about stalking yet published. It [...]
The Unknown Darkness: Profiling the Predators Among Us
Authors: Gregg O. McCrary, Katherine Ramsland; In basement offices three stories below the ground at the FBI’s Academy in Quantico, Virginia, former Supervisory Agent Gregg McCrary was among the first generation of the most elite force for criminal investigation in the world. In The Unknown Darkness, McCrary takes the reader behind the crime scene to [...]
Violence Risk and Threat Assessment: A Practical Guide for Mental Health and Criminal Justice Professionals
Author: J. Reid Meloy; Perhaps the most readable and practical book on violence risk ever written. Reflects the standard of practice in the field. “Reid Meloy is a leader in the arena and I highly recommend this book to members of the criminal justice and mental health communities. He has written about a very complex [...]
Violent Attachments
Author: J. Reid Meloy; This book is written for psychotherapists, psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and social workers in clinical or forensic practice. Biological foci include concepts about the deep limbic structures of the brain and the biochemistry that inhibits or disinhibits such violence. Psychological patterns include both psychoanalytic constructs and the specific psychological test data from [...]