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1 David Canter, one of the foremost UK psychologists in criminal profiling, recently said:

As the person usually credited with bringing offender profiling to the UK…I despair every time a journalist asks me for a ‘profile’ of the unknown criminal whose actions are in the day’s news. This has become an area in which myth and fiction combine to hide the often mundane truth to such a degree that I have to take a deep breath and say as gently as I can, ‘it’s not like on TV you know’. (Canter 2010).

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