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Offender Profiling Research Paper

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Offender profiling is used by focusing on all the aspects of the crime. They investigate the nature of the crime, the scene and how the crime was committed. The goal of this type of profiling is to provide investigators with an idea of the personality of the suspect. This method of profiling has in part been effective. By suing this type of profiling methods, investigators were able to arrest the responsible for the individual that terrorized New York from 1940 to 1956, The Mad Bomber. Investigators collaborated with Dr. James Brussel, a psychiatrist, in order to develop a psychological profile on the suspect. He did this by studying each scene of the bombing, his phone calls and letters as well. However, there are is always a bad side to
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