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Psychology Offender profiling is a set of techniques used by law enforcement agencies to try to identify perpetrators of serious crime. Profiling techniques have been used increasingly by police forces in many parts of the world, while fictional representations in films and television series like Silence of the Lambs and Cracker have generated a huge fascination with the topic. A) In 1994, as a result of the work by David Canter, the potential of offender profiling was discovered. His involvement in the John Duffy case proved vital in convicting the railway rapist who was originally in a list of about 2000 suspects for two murders and five rapes. Canter believed that the offender was a man who had or had previously been in a long-term relationship with a woman, most likely with a violent history within this relationship. He was right because Duffy had first come to police attention after raping his...

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