In the 4 decades since offender profiling (OP) was established, hundreds of journal articles,
books, book chapters, reports, and magazine articles have been published on the topic, and …

Purpose. This paper is concerned with case linkage, a form of behavioural analysis used to
identify crimes committed by the same offender, through their behavioural similarity. Whilst …

Attempting to locate an unknown offender is an important function of the criminal
investigative process. Routine activity theory suggests that an interaction between victim and …

There is a belief that criminal profilers can predict a criminal's characteristics from crime
scene evidence. In this article, the authors argue that this belief may be an illusion and …

Case linkage, the identification of crimes suspected of being committed by the same
perpetrator on the basis of behavioral similarity, and offender profiling, the inference of …

52 Laurence Alison et al. for researching it, as well as critically examining this new
approach. As such, the purpose of this article is to put some distance between the old and …

Whilst case linkage is used with serious forms of serial crime (eg rape and murder), the
potential exists for it to be used with volume crime. This study replicates and extends …

Purpose Research suggests that offender spatial decision‐making is not random. However,
little is known about if or how offences in a series influence where an offender will target …

Properties, victims, and locations previously targeted by offenders have an increased risk of
being targeted again within a short time period. It has been suggested that often the same …

The present study aimed to identify dimensions of variation in serial homicide and to use
these dimensions to behaviourally link offences committed by the same offender with each …