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Behavioral Profiling and Offender Psychology

The one landmark case in this atlas whose lasting significance to the discipline is not one forensic evidence technique but its role in shaping criminal behavioral profiling and the study of organized-offender psychology. This subcategory currently holds one live entity by deliberate honest disclosure rather than a forced placement elsewhere: the case genuinely occupies a different axis of significance than the identification-technique or trial-precedent cases grouped elsewhere in this tree, the same reasoning the theory subcategory tree already applied to its own single-member Developmental and Life-Course Theories group. A future mint wave adding more profiling-defining cases is expected to grow this subcategory rather than needing a new one.

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1972 1
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1. Offender Profiling (Wikipedia)
Offender profiling, FBI section
Quote, Offender profiling, FBI section
In 1972, after the death of J. Edgar Hoover, who was skeptical of psychiatry, the Behavioral Science Unit (BSU) of the FBI was formed by Patrick Mullany and Howard Teten in 1972, leading to the rapid development of the field.
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