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        Criminal Profiling for PR in China,  pg 9-15
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            Criminal Profiling for PR



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                                             Abstract:                            dentally caught more by

 M                                                                                luck than professional in-

 E                                           All over the World serial            vestigations. In this paper
 T         “Hidden among                     and mass killings occur              we will look at the patchy

 H        the evidence, of-                  almost daily somewhere.              criminal profile of Chinese
 O       ten gleaned from                    This criminal activity is            serial killers that is start-
 D          the marks and                    best known in the USA                ing to emerge.

 O          wounds on the                    and the UK where the
 L         victim’s body...                  freedoms of society allow  Background & Cases:

 O        these signatures                   murderers to act out their
 G                                           psychotic murders with               China has a very strict
 Y       are the only ways  the protection of rules that  reporting system for crime
            the killer truly                 ensure freedom of move-              - it is after the fact report-

            expresses him-                   ment, rights to silence              ing - so the police and
           self.” (Keppel &                  and privacy. In the past             government keep hidden

                 Burns).”                    in China society was so              from the public many as-
                                             regulated that crime in all  pects of crime as the fail-
             David Webb,                     areas was extremely dif-             ure of authority and police

           Criminal Profil-                  ficult to conceal. However  to capture or control crime
                      ing                    in modern China the se-              means losing face. Even

                                             rial killer has emerged but  after a long investigation

                                             with backward police and  and pure luck, they actual-
                                             communication methods                ly arrest someone they pay
                                             for detection they often             the reward money to the

                                             kill for years until acci-           police investigators not


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