Offender Profiling
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Douglas’ 1995 Unabomber Profile
The Unabomber probably drives an older car but keeps it in good condition. He may have a wife or girlfriend, but she knows there’s a...
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Can Criminal Psychopaths be Identified?
In 1941 psychiatrist Hervey Cleckley published the first edition of his influential book, The Mask of Sanity. The book was one of the first works...
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Profiling: A Hidden Challenge to the Regulation of Data Surveillance
Profiling is a data surveillance technique which is little-understood and ill-documented, but increasingly used. It is a means of generating suspects or prospects from within...
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Psychological Profiling
Instinct or Science The apparent success of psychological profiling is based on a combination of two important ingredients: A close co-operative working relationship with the...