Criminal Psycology and Forensic Technology

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 investigative
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 psychology
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):

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