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Research in the area of criminal profiling has been largely preoccupied with the development of offender taxonomies and principles relevant to the profiling of violent crimes. Seemingly overlooked, however, has been any systematic and empirically based examination of the components and processes involved in the construction of a criminal profile. This chapter canvasses a series of studies that provide some tentative insights into these issues, including the information found within criminal profiles as constructed by expert profilers, the input of differing forms of case material, and the cognitive processes associated with the accurate construction of a criminal profile.
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(2006). The Components and Processes of Criminal Profiling. In: Criminal Profiling. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-109-3_4
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