Crime Classification Manual

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.

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)
Part II: Classifications
Chapter 6: Homicide
Chapter 7: Arson/Bombing
Chapter 8: Rape and Sexual Assault
Chapter 9: Nonlethal Crimes
Chapter 10: Computer Crimes(Allen G. Burgess)
Chapter 11: Cybercrimes (John E. Douglas and Lauren K. Douglas)
Chapter 12: Internet Child Sex Offenders (Eileen M. Alexy, Ann W. Burgess, and Timothy Baker)
Part III: Methods of Killing
Chapter 13: Mass, Spree, and Serial Homicide (Ann W. Burgess)
Chapter 14: Homicidal Poisoning (Arthur E. Westveer, John P. Jarvis, and Carl J. Jensen III)
Chapter 15: The Use of Biological Agents as Weapons (Anne M. Berger)
Part IV: Issues in Crime
Chapter 16: Wrongful Convictions: Causes, Solutions, and Case Studies (Peter Shellem)
Chapter 17: Criminal Confessions: Overcoming the Challenges (Michael P. Napier and Susan H. Adams)