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Describe one case of applied offender profiling.
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a). Describe one case of applied offender profiling. (10 marks) David Canter took up the case of the 'Railway Rapist' in 1986, to help search for a serial rapist, who had also committed 2 murders. Originally, John Duffy was 1505th in a list of about 2000 suspects, but after the profile was developed he was investigated and subsequently convicted. David Canter was involved as part of the 'bottom up' approach used by the British police. It is called this because they employ private criminal psychologists to create profiles for them, as opposed to the FBI system, the 'top down' approach where everything is internal. From the evidence left at the scene and the way the attacks were carried out he created an offender profile, which subsequently aided the police to arrest John Duffy, who was later convicted of 2 murders, 5 rapes (although he may have committed more - 33 door...
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