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CRIMINAL

PSYCHOLOGY

and FORENSIC

TECHNOLOGY

A Collaborative

Approach to Effective

Profiling

Edited by

Grover Maurice Godwin, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor

Justice Center

The University of Alaska–Anchorage

CRC Press

Boca Raton London New York Washington, D.C.

Front Cover: Helen M. Godwin

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Criminal psychology and forensic technology : a collaborative approach to effective

profiling / editor, Maurice Godwin.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-8493-2358-4

1. Criminal psychology. 2. Forensic sciences. I. Godwin, Maurice.

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Preface

Criminal psychology, forensic technology, and profiling. These three disciplines

have received a wealth of media attention over the past decade. Consequently,

due to public and professional interest, a plethora of books have been published.

The technique of offender profiling, or classifying offenders according to their

behaviors and characteristics, has been developing slowly as a possible investi-

gative tool since 1841 and the publication of the The Murders in the Rue Morgue

by Edgar Alan Poe, in which detective C. Auguste Dupin demonstrated the

ability to follow the thought patterns of a companion while the pair strolled

through Paris without speaking a word. Some years later, the art of using psy-

chology to profile a criminal was used in 1888 in England, where Dr. Thomas

Bond, a lecturer in forensic medicine, produced what could be recognized as a

psychological profile of the perpetrator of the Whitechapel murders. Dr. Bond

wrote to the head of the Criminal Investigation Division (Rumbelow, 1987:140):

The murderer must have been a man of physical strength and great coolness

and daring. There is no evidence that he had an accomplice. He must, in my

opinion, be a man subject to periodic attacks of Homicidal and erotic mania.

The character of the mutilations indicates that the man may be in a condition

sexually, that may be called Satyriasis. It is of course possible that the Homi-

cidal impulse may have developed from a revengeful or brooding condition

of mind, or that religious mania may have been the original disease, but I do

not think that either hypothesis is likely. The murderer in external appearance

is quite likely to be a quite inoffensive looking man probably middle-age and

neatly and respectable dressed. I think he might be in the habit of wearing a

cloak or overcoat or he could hardly escape notice in the streets if the blood

on his hands or clothes were visible.

Assuming the murderer to be such a person as I have just described, he would

be solitary and eccentric in his habits. Also, he is likely to be a man without

regular occupation, but with some small income or pension. He is possibly

living among respectable persons who have some knowledge of his character

and habits who have grounds for suspicion that he is not quite right in his

mind at times. Such person would probably be unwilling to communicate

and would be suspicious of the police for fear of trouble or notoriety, whereas

if there were prospects of a reward it might overcome his scruples.

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