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Geographical profiling is where officers find bodies or crimes in a certain area, by this the area that the body is found is investigated to try and narrow down to find where the perpetrator lives. There are two types of geographical profiling theories which are "circle theory" and "corridor theory". Circle theory is when plotting a sequence of crime on a street map area. Two crimes are further away from each end of the diameter of the circle. When the circle are plotted on to the map, the areas within the circle is a 78% chance of were the perpetrator lives. Corridor theory is when there is a familiar similarity between crimes as these links usually with a motorway or a road or a railway as these routes are common for transport. By this the investigator would find the nearest link going through the crimes. Then the patterns of offences...

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