LS372 Lecture 3: January 18th 2016
3 Apr 2016
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In the real world, the best we can typically do is a mix of convergent physical evidence, statistics and logic. Behaviour: male, paranoid; (secondary inference, build, dress, age, loner; Language: intellect; (secondary inference, location) ethnicity; (secondary inference, location, living arrangement, religion), illness. Profiling is not a standalone investigative technique because of its distinctive limitations. Corollary 3a) there are numerous obstacles to the development of profiling as a science. For example, offenders lie, also there is a difference between apprehended and non apprehended offenders, or a victim being deceased.
