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Predicting the home location of serial offenders: a preliminary comparison of the accuracy of human judges with a geographic profiling system†

  1. Brent Snook M.Sc.‡,*,
  2. David Canter Ph.D.§,
  3. Craig Bennell M.Sc.

Article first published online: 17 APR 2002

DOI: 10.1002/bsl.474

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Behavioral Sciences & the Law

Behavioral Sciences & the Law

Special Issue: Current Directions

Volume 20, Issue 1-2, pages 109–118, January - April 2002

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Snook, B., Canter, D. and Bennell, C. (2002), Predicting the home location of serial offenders: a preliminary comparison of the accuracy of human judges with a geographic profiling system. Behav. Sci. Law, 20: 109–118. doi: 10.1002/bsl.474

Author Information

  1. Department of Psychology, The University of Liverpool, Eleanor Rathbone Building, Liverpool, L69 7ZA, U.K.

  1. ‡

    Brent Snook is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Psychology, The University of Liverpool.

  2. §

    David Canter is the Director of Centre for Investigative Psychology and Professor of Psychology, The University of Liverpool.

  3. Craig Bennell is a research assistant and Ph.D. student at the Centre for Investigative Psychology

*Department of Psychology, The University of Liverpool, Eleanor Rathbone Building, Liverpool, L69 7ZA, U.K.

  1. †

    This research was supported by Overseas Research Scholarships awarded to Snook and Bennell by the Overseas Research Students Award Scheme. The authors would like to thank Gareth Norris for assisting in the data collection and Andreas Mokros and Pavel Toropov for their helpful comments on earlier versions of this paper.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 17 APR 2002
  2. Article first published online: 17 APR 2002

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  • Overseas Research Student Award Scheme

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