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Contemporary Sex Offender Risk Management, Volume IIBehavioural Crime Linkage and Multi-Agency Working

Contemporary Sex Offender Risk Management, Volume II: Behavioural Crime Linkage and Multi-Agency... [Evidence suggests that the majority of crime is committed by a minority of prolific serial offenders who pose a substantial risk to society. Behavioural Crime Linkage (BCL) has been proposed as one method to more effectively bring serial offenders to justice. BCL is a form of behavioural analysis that seeks to identify similarities in offender crime scene behaviour across two or more crimes so that evidence collected across multiple investigations can be combined, and thus helps the police to work in a more efficient way (thereby saving time and money). This chapter will introduce the concept of BCL, describe the different scenarios in which it is used during live police investigations, and briefly discuss empirical research in the area. The chapter will also explore how BCL relates to the concept of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention, how BCL fits within the wider criminal justice process, and how BCL can support the work of other criminal justice agencies.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Contemporary Sex Offender Risk Management, Volume IIBehavioural Crime Linkage and Multi-Agency Working

Editors: Kemshall, Hazel; McCartan, Kieran

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
ISBN
978-3-319-63572-9
Pages
1 –32
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-63573-6_1
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Abstract

[Evidence suggests that the majority of crime is committed by a minority of prolific serial offenders who pose a substantial risk to society. Behavioural Crime Linkage (BCL) has been proposed as one method to more effectively bring serial offenders to justice. BCL is a form of behavioural analysis that seeks to identify similarities in offender crime scene behaviour across two or more crimes so that evidence collected across multiple investigations can be combined, and thus helps the police to work in a more efficient way (thereby saving time and money). This chapter will introduce the concept of BCL, describe the different scenarios in which it is used during live police investigations, and briefly discuss empirical research in the area. The chapter will also explore how BCL relates to the concept of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention, how BCL fits within the wider criminal justice process, and how BCL can support the work of other criminal justice agencies.]

Published: Nov 26, 2017

Keywords: Behavioural crime linkage; Comparative Case Analysis; Serial sexual offending; Behavioural consistency; Behavioural distinctiveness

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