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Criminal Profiling for PR in China

and jewelry. Disposal of Failure of the education the difficult cases of mur-

Victims: often buried, system to support rural der by smart deduction
but some left at scene of children who cannot pay based on psychological
crime. for schooling. Lack of principals. However if you

F Type of Victims: mainly social opportunities makes analyze the content most

O female adults and chil- it easy to lure victims of the outcomes were as
R dren. with offers of money or in all fiction pure luck.
E History: Most had some work. Police should cross In the USA, there was,

N criminal backgrounds and reference their systems Criminal Minds, this was
S prison sentences for lesser of information - a central in the beginning trying

I crimes. Other: Cannibal- data bank - that does not to be a serious attempt at
C ism in one or two cases. currently exist in China. using profiling in a scien-
Most of the killers at some tific way but soon as most

M This outline profile of point were still living at of these programs lost its
E course is quite wide and home with family - not way in characterization

T based on just a few cases. loners as such - until they and mundane stories from
H However even from this started to avoid the police any other police series and
O we can make some use- - then moving about from so in the end was a very

D ful deductions. A lack of province to province made poor program from a real
O access to guns (as in the them difficult to track and life point of view. Other

L UK too) means most mur- find. Most serial killers are programs such as the CSI
O der is committed using statistically married with were more scientific but
G knives or strangulation children unlike the sup- just as far from real life

Y methods. Some societal posed image of the lone as any other TV when the
restriction on the sale of lunatic. series moves into later
hunting knives as in the seasons. The conclusion is

UK would go some way Profiling in Fiction: that TV psychology vastly
to removing access to over-estimates the abilities
certain weapons. Lack of One of the problems with of criminal profiling and

access to mental health criminal profiling is televi- that in the real World it is
professionals is clearly a sion. The first TV program just not that essential to

problem in China which is to highlight the science the capture of killers who
stuck 50 years in the past came from the UK with by and by get caught more
in the hospitals using out- a series called. Cracker by chance that any other

dated psychiatric methods in which a psychologist reason. A new program
of drugs and confinement. helps the police crack all called. Lie to Me, shows

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