Pragmatic Solutions to offender Profiling and Behavioural Investigative Advice

This paper outlines a brief history of the evolutionary trajectory of offender profiling and illustrates the three broad strands (investigative, clinical, and statistical ) that emergedin the 1970s–1990s. We then indicate how a more pragmatic, interdisciplinary practitioner–academic model has emerged in recent years and go on to describe the range of contributions that are now made across the criminal justice field.
More recently termed 'behavioural investigative advice’ in the UK...

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