profiling

I apologize if I've started this thread in the wrong forum, but I honestly couldn't think of anywhere else to put it. Anyway, I rather shamefully admit that True Crime books are a bit of a vice of mine (In my own meager defense, I generally prefer ones with slightly more literary merit, like...

Split from: Shooting at an army base in Texas FBI serial killer profiling no more responsible for the direct capture/arrest of any serial killer anymore than the use of psychics for the same purpose. What valuable or practical knowledge has been gleaned from FBI profilers interviews of...

Recently, I was fortunate to observe a presentation given by two of the investigators involved in the BTK case. Let me preface my actual question for the august forum crowd with an editorial: people, including myself, often complain about the way television and other media sensationalize normal...

IN todays WSJ there is small article in the "B" section credited to The New Yorker which says that a study done by the University of Liverpool shows that the famed profilers are pretty much in the same league as psychics. Vague statements which can be interpreted in many contradictory ways and...

Five women appear to have been killed by the same person in recent weeks in the town of Ipswich in Suffolk, England. This article lists the predictions about the killer made by Joseph Diaz, associate professor of criminology at Fayetteville State University, North Carolina. His predictions...