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Criminal Profiling for PR in China

third, crime reconstruc- ly even after arrest. The

There are two profiling tion, looking at victim other most well-known
systems in the world that behavior as a clue to why profiling methods are from
are sufficiently funded and they were chosen by the the UK, mainly led by

F have had some success in killer and fourth, profile consulting psychologists

O detecting criminals and generation in which an who have been employed
R helping to apprehend them outline of the killers be- by the British police to
E by assisting police to nar- havior and motives are as- help in difficult cases. Alas

N row down the suspects in sessed with demographics, on review the UK system
S a case and to develop a physical profile and likely does not fare much bet-

I strategy to capture them. perpetrator type. The suc- ter than the FBI at 16% of
C cess rate of the FBI profil- cases when reviewed led
The most well know to an arrest based on

M is the criminal behav- profiling. The British
E ioral unit of the FBI system was based in

T in the USA. Although science where people
H not based on any real tend to act consistently
O science, it does have and follow patterns

D a lot of historical of behavior. The Brit-
O data based on past ish system was more

L serial killers and in-depth, looking at
O their motives, modus speech patterns, social
G operanda, interviews Photo Courtesy of google.com constructs, interests

Y with convicted se- and obsessions. This
rial killers for biographies ing is actually very low approach although still
and background. The FBI at only 17% of profiles lacking over-all success

has a basic model that actually helping to an ar- just as with the FBI, was
they train other security rest. This is thought to be far more accurate when
forces around the World because the FBI’s methods post analysis was applied.

to follow, one is, data are fundamentally flawed In other words, although
assimilation, collecting as they have no control the criminal was arrested

information about each group in which to com- by chance (the most com-
case, second, crime clas- pare and contrast results. mon way a serial killer is
sification, looking at the They accept the interview caught), detection or self-

type of crime for example often at face value from confession, the profiles
organized or disorganized, criminals that lie constant- tended to be very close

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