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Evaluate the Two approaches (FBI and David Canter) to the profiling of offenders.
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Question Evaluate the Two approaches (FBI and David Canter) to the profiling of offenders. 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. Within a serious crime, there are too many clues for the police to study and to tackle. Fortunately, (Janet L. Jackson & Debra A. Bekerian, 1997) the number of motives that underlie the crime and the Modus Operandi or method of operation are fairly restricted though neither a crime nor an offender is completely unique. The earliest systematic approach of offender profiling was invented by FBI in the 1970's since the sharp increase of serial murders and rapes case in USA. The team set up in Virginia, initially as a team of nine was officially known as the Behavioural sciences Unit (Later Investigation Support...
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