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The term ‘profiling’, whether preceded by ‘offender’, ‘criminal’, or ‘psychological’, is used to describe a range of methods and techniques aimed at facilitating the detection, apprehension and successful prosecution and detention of the correct suspect (Boon 1997).
Historically, this sub-discipline of forensic psychology has been the focus of various portrayals in the media – some generally accurate, others employing dramatic licence. Indeed, psychological profiling was dubbed ‘worse than useless’ by Craig Jackson of Birmingham City University in the Guardian (14 September 2010).
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