CrimeExplained

Offenders & Victims

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Offender Profiling

4 articles

4 min

How investigators analyze crime scenes and behavior to say something about who the offender is and where they may be.

8 min

How conclusions about an offender are drawn from the facts and evidence of a single case, rather than from statistics on past crimes.

6 min

How the locations of linked crimes are used to predict where an offender is likely to live and move.

5 min

How predictions about an offender are built from statistical patterns in previously solved crimes.

1 article

6 min

Mental ill health is far more common in prison populations than in the general population, but it is rarely a cause of crime on its own.