Criminal profiling, the technique of deciphering the psychological makeup of offenders, is a crucial part of solving true ...

Some forensic psychologists, for instance, may engage in criminal profiling, in which they try to identify likely suspects using information collected from crime scenes. Others try to assess the ...

Burgess’s role in the evolution of criminal profiling and its application to several serial killer investigations are detailed in the new book, A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest ...

But is this the reality of criminal profiling? CP, which has steadily developed as a discipline over the past 40 years, is the practice of inferring the behavioural, personality, and demographic ...

This course provides an overview of the development and character of the many types of offenders who become criminal psychopaths. The course explores the various methods used in classifying and ...

Forensic DNA profiling uses polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify short tandem repeats (STRs), which are highly variable DNA regions, typically with four repeating bases. This variability helps ...

Low copy number (LCN) DNA forensic profiling has lead to successful criminal prosecutions, including in the Peter Falconio case in Australia and the murder of the Swedish foreign minister ...

Emma Johnston is an experienced forensic scientist with a strong background in DNA profiling and international experience. Having worked for one of the largest forensic science providers in the UK she ...