The encyclopedia article on Robert Ressler, the FBI agent who coined the term serial killer and helped pioneer offender profiling through interviews with incarcerated killers. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ressler
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Wikipedia: Robert Ressler
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played a significant role in the psychological profiling of violent offenders in the 1970s
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This source backs 14 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 4 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Criminologists and Reformers, 9 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 holds, 4 general references.
- Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
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9Criminologists and Reformers
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1Criminologists and Reformers
General References
4Criminologists and Reformers
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