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 …

What is intelligence-led policing? Who came up with the idea? Where did it come from? How
does it relate to other policing paradigms? What distinguishes an intelligence-led approach …

The Handbook is a unique work of reference to the leading ideas, debates, topics,
approaches and methodologies in forensic linguistics and language and the law. It …

Abstract The origins of 'Offender Profiling'in the advice given by police medical advisors and
other experts to criminal investigations are briefly outlined. The spread of such advice to …

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 …

To examine if serial homicide offenders are consistent across their crimes, a model was
developed empirically that could be used to distinguish between crimes that were …

Using techniques developed in the field of epidemiology, recent research conducted in both
the UK (Johnson and Bowers 2004) and Australia (Townsley et al. 2003) demonstrates that …

This paper explores some of the more recent developments within crime mapping and the
broader application of geographical information technology within law enforcement. The …

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 …