Abstract
Criminal profiling is an investigative tool used around the world to infer the personality and behavioural characteristics of an offender based on their crime. Case linkage, the process of determining discreet connections between crimes of the same offender, is a practice that falls under the general banner of criminal profiling and has been widely criticized. Two theories, behavioural consistency and the homology assumption, are examined and their impact on profiling in general and case linkage specifically is discussed.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Profiling, Vitimologia e Ciências Forenses: Perspetivas Atuais |
| Editors | Fatima Almeida, Mauro Paulino |
| Place of Publication | Lisbon, Portugal |
| Publisher | Pactor |
| Pages | 227-343 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9789896930141 |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
