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Offender Profiling (model essay) a) Describe psychological research on offender profiling b) Evaluate psychological research on offender profiling c) Suggest how offender profiling can be used to help police officers in their enquiries (illustrate your answer using one case study on offender profiling) According to Holmes & Holmes (1996) there should be three main goals of offender profiling, these are to provide the police with basic information about the characteristics of the offender such as age, race, personality, employment and marital status, to suggest any possessions the offender may have that would associate him with the crime scene (such as souvenirs the police may want to search for) and to provide interviewing strategies and suggestions the police may use when questioning a suspect. The American approach to developing a profile of an offender has been developed from an initial sample of interviews with 36 convicted serial sexual murderers, combined with detailed information from crime scenes...

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