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A 7 page paper discussing the development and process of criminal profiling. As much art as science, the end goal of the process of criminal profiling is to identify and assess all of the information available about a crime or criminal so that all of that information can be used to locate, arrest and successfully prosecute those who would engage in violent crime. Criminal profiling is an invaluable tool for defining what investigators should be searching for in terms of suspects. As with any other operational advance, it still must be used properly if it is to return the proper results. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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the loose and already had been responsible for the deaths of several women. New FBI agent Clarice Starling gave her superior an assessment of the killers psychological characteristics as
she saw them based on the information available; the assessment extended to speculations about the killers current psychological state and likely future actions. This was a scene from "Silence
of the Lambs," of course, and certainly not a snapshot of a day in the life of a criminal profiler. It does provide a view of criminal profilers end
goal: to identify all of the information available about a crime or criminal so that all of that information can be used to locate, arrest and successfully prosecute those
who would engage in violent crime. Profilings Development OToole (1999) reports that "Profiling is not a new concept. Variations of profiling have been
used for many years in an effort to understand particularly heinous individuals, such as Adolph Hitler, or to attempt to resolve a baffling crime or series of crimes" (p. 44).
OToole (1999) identifies New York Citys use of a psychiatrist to help solve the 1950s case of "The Mad Bomber" as being the first case in which criminal profiling
was actively used to achieve a successful conclusion. In the case of "The Mad Bomber," New York law enforcement officials turned to New
York psychiatrist Dr. James A. Brussel to compile a personality profile of the bomber based on what was known about him and the methods he used. Brussel studied the
facts that were known about the case to develop "an assessment of the offenders personality. His assessment was remarkably accurate" (OToole, 1999; p. 44), right down to Brussels prediction that
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