Word: unite
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speed resolution of owner-tenant disputes involving owner-occupied, four- to six-unit buildings...
...fact, to the unit, how a crime is committed is much more revealing than why. In doing criminal investigative analysis, more popularly known as profiling, agents pore over police reports, autopsy and laboratory results, maps, sketches and photographs of the crime scene. They rarely visit the scene itself. "Police with a suspect in mind may become biased in interpreting information," says agent John Douglas, who heads the profiling branch. "We don't want to be emotionally slanted." Especially important in understanding the criminal is gathering information about the victim. "A profile depends on there being interaction between the offender...
...unit's analysis: that the assailant made no attempt to cover up the victim meant he had no respect for her, no remorse and wished to shock whoever found her. Placing objects inside her was another way of humiliating his victim, but since they were inserted after her death, the rapist was not motivated by sadism. The attacker was able to perform sexually; possibly he had successful relationships with women. No money was stolen, and easily salable items like the TV and VCR were left behind, indicating that he had a source of income. She was tied very tightly, suggesting...
...agents take pains not to exaggerate the powers of profiling. "It's a myth that a profile always solves the case," cautions retired agent Robert Ressler, now a consultant to the unit. "It's not the magic bullet of investigations. It's simply another tool." Behavioral analysis can aid in other ways besides identifying a suspect. It can indicate what the offender might do after the crime: certain types of killers will return to where they disposed of the body; a remorseful murderer is likely to visit the victim's grave...
...films like The Silence of the Lambs (and articles like this one) help criminals learn the unit's tricks of the trade? Probably so, but unit members are not too worried. Much of behavior -- criminal or not -- is automatic, the result of the way a person thinks. "For many of these people, fantasy consumes their lives," observes Wright. "They follow their own scripts." Rewriting them is difficult, no matter how much they might know about...