This article provides another useful example of an area in which sociological research can help to inform an issue that ‘everybody knows about’ largely because of its role in popular dramas and fiction.
Anna Gekoski first explains what ‘offender profiling’ is, and what its aims are in helping to solve crimes and identify offenders. She then goes on to pose the important question ‘but is it any good?’ Note that the method used in the research was that of semi-structured interviews with a relatively small sample of police officers, and then the resulting data being subjected to ‘thematic analysis’.
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