| 单词 | offender profiling |
| 释义 | > as lemmasoffender profiling offender profiling n. originally and chiefly British a system of analysing and recording the probable psychological and behavioural characteristics of the unknown perpetrators of specific crimes so they can be matched with the known habits and personalities of suspects; cf. profiling n. ΚΠ 1987 Times 25 May 3/1 British police have been making experimental use of professional psychologists to build up profiles of sex offenders and help detectives to catch them or forecast their next moves. The concept, known as Psychological Offender Profiling, or POP, originated with the FBI in the United States. 1988 Sunday Times 4 Dec. b5/3 Our aim..is to make psychological offender profiling a science. 1994 Guardian 26 Oct. (Society section) 6/1–2 Five years ago, offender profiling was widely regarded as a major breakthrough in police work; today its public reputation is severely damaged. 2001 Bath Chron. (Electronic ed.) 14 July Each chapter explores a different technique and seminal cases in that field, from fingerprints, ballistics and offender profiling through to surveillance, interrogation and DNA. < as lemmas |
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