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  1. 1. Hunting the hunters - Evaluating a new method of Geographic Profiling

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Max Pröckl; [2024]
    Nyckelord :rgeoprofile; crimestat; journey-to-crime; geographic profiling; qgis; geographical profiling; Örebromannen; Kim Rossmo; David Canter; Ned Levine.; Law and Political Science;

    Sammanfattning : Geographic Profiling (GP) may be used when searching for an unknown offender by applying mathematical algorithms to geographical information. This thesis aimed to contribute to improvement of the efficiacy of GP’s produced by law enforcement by evaluating a the new Spaulding/Morris Centrographic (SMC)-method of GP that claims to counteract two of the main difficulties when constructing a GP in a real world investigation: 1. LÄS MER

  3. 2. AN EMPIRICAL EXPLORATION OF THE CIRCLE THEORY OF ENVIRONMENTAL RANGE : A CASE STUDY OF ‘AMAGERMANDEN’

    Master-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Institutionen för kriminologi (KR)

    Författare :Luna Olorenshaw; [2022]
    Nyckelord :geographical profiling; marauder; commuter; the Circle Theory of Environmental Range; serial offender; serial crimes;

    Sammanfattning : Geographical profiling (GP) is a method used to determine an offender’s most likely area of residence. GP helps to better understand the spatial behaviour of an offender, by connecting series of crimes in a specific area. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Do We Mistake Fiction for Fact? : Investigating Whether the Consumption of Fictional Crime-related Media May Help to Explain the Criminal Profiling Illusion

    Master-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Institutionen för kriminologi (KR)

    Författare :Teresa Greiwe; [2021]
    Nyckelord :criminal profiling; criminal profiling illusion; cultivation theory; cultivation effects; fictional crime-related media;

    Sammanfattning : The disparity between the ongoing use, the overall positive attitudes towards criminal profiling and the lack of empirical evidence for its validity is also referred to as criminal profiling illusion. Associated risks for society range from misled police investigations, hindered apprehensions of the actual offender(s), and wrongful convictions of innocent citizens to mistrust in the police and their methods. LÄS MER

  5. 4. GEOGRAPHIC PROFILING. LOCATING THE SERIAL MURDERERS

    Master-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS)

    Författare :Stavros Makris; [2018]
    Nyckelord :Geography of crime; Profiling; Location; Serial crime; Murderers; Shootings;

    Sammanfattning : Geographic profiling is a technique used by crime investigators and the police to examine the locations of a connected series of crimes, to determine the most probable area of the offender’s residence. Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, Geographic profiling helps to better interpret the spatial behavior of an offender and focuses the investigation on a specific and smaller area of the community. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Geographic Profiling: A scientific tool or merely a guessing game?

    Kandidat-uppsats, Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS)

    Författare :Meit Öhrn; [2016]
    Nyckelord :Accuracy; Burglary; Commuter; Marauder; Crime pattern theory; Offender; Geographic profiling;

    Sammanfattning : Geografisk profilering har blivit en av de mest kontroversiella och modernametoderna som används under brottsutredningar i nuläget. Framgången ochtillförlitligheten av metoden är ett debatterat ämne inom forskningsvärlden. Denhär studien ämnar att undersöka huruvida geografisk profilering är ett användbartverktyg för Polisen. LÄS MER