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Criminal Profiling for PR in China

psychologists who use build a data- base similar full powers over the local

body language and micro- to the FBI model but also police force to investigate
expressions to catch crimi- to allow in-depth inter- major serial killings when
nals out in a lie. This is view of motives by decep- they occur. This would

pure fiction and not based tion psychologists who mean just like the FBI’s F
on any credible science at would use cognitive in- BU team specialists can be O

all. terview techniques devel- on call to help when the R
oped in Britain to ascer- local police stumble and E
Profiling in China: tain real information. This fail to protect the victims N

is also of crime. However even S
diffi- before all this - you have I

cult as to have a teaching regime C
most of criminal and forensic
serial psychology available at M

killers university level and expe- E
are ex- rienced teachers to give T

ecuted the courses. That is a long H
every way off - as psychology in O
quick- China is so poor in general D

ly here. The universities tend O
after to concentrate on the soft L

con- sciences in psychology O
viction such as child development G
Photo Courtesy of colbycriminaljustice.wdfiles.com in Chi- and cognitive work with Y

na. Also, to enable cross little attention to the hard
For the Chinese authori- fertilization of information sciences in neuropsychol-

ties to start to appreciate across provinces without ogy, biopsychology and
the support psychology bureaucratic defenses. It abnormal psychology.
could give to them - they would certainly benefit You need good scientists

first have to have a mind- China to have a Criminal to do forensic work other-
set change to enable them Intelligence Squad that wise it is all subjective as

to use more modern ways was made up of experi- in the example of the TV
of looking at crime and enced detectives, psychol- shows that use the science
victims. They need to al- ogists and criminologists as background to a drama

low research at prisons of working as a team on any about love and relation-
past offenders to start to crime, country-wide, with ships within the characters

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