All posts by Criminal Profiling Staff
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Offender Profiling / Specific-profile Analysis
Lecture given by Dr Bill Tafoya on Offender Profiling at the The Henry Fielding Centre’s (University of Manchester, Manchester England) 1998 NCIS Conference. It is...
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Psychopathy: An Evolutionary Perspective
Are psychopaths the result of human evolution? The goal of evolution is to maximize a specie’s chance of survival, and there is evidence to show...
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Harold Shipman Report Summary
I. The First Report > Death Disguised > SUMMARY 1. Shipman entered general practice in early 1974, when he joined the Abraham Ormerod Medical Practice...
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Harold Shipman – 215 Victims
The public inquiry into further victims of convicted murderer Harold Shipman reported today that in addition to the 15 murders for which he is imprisoned,...
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Assessing Violent Recidivism in Sexual Offenders
Forensic and clinical psychologists have long been asked to make predictions about violence, despite the fact that, in the past, such predictions have been notoriously...
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Rational Fanatics – What drives a suicide bomber?
What drives a suicide bomber? While most of the world sees them as lone zealots, they are, in fact, pawns of large terrorist networks that...
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Forensic Psycholinguistics Using Language Analysis for Identifying and Assessing
Early one Friday afternoon, police officials from a midsized city contacted the local office of the FBI. A 911 caller had just left a message:...
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Jack the Ripper : Dr. Bond’s Post Mortem on Mary Kelly
This post-mortem report was written by Dr. Thomas Bond after he examined the remains of Mary Jane Kelly. The report was lost until 1987, when...
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Jack the Ripper : The Macnaghten Memoranda
The official notes written by Sir Melville Macnaghten in 1894 in response to a published remark in The Sun referring to a man named Thomas...
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Case Study : Stopping a Serial Sniper
Suffolk County, New York, located on Long Island, 18-miles east of New York City, has a population of 1.3 million residents, who live in both...