Part I: Cybercrime Profiling
Most everyone has seen the movie The Silence of the Lambs or the more recently released Hannibal. Each of these popular movies familiarized the public with the established discipline of criminal profiling. The methodology of psychological or criminal profiling has been used for more than two decades to assist investigators and forensic analysts in incident investigation. In the early 1970s, several now well-known FBI special agents (for example, John Douglas, Leo Hazelwood, and Robert Ressler) created and developed conventional crime-profiling techniques. They focused on the psychological profiling of serial killers, serial rapists, and serial arsonists. Their techniques have been validated and expanded over the ...
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