The purpose of this article is to improve the use of evidence-based practice and research utilization in the offender profiling process. The use of offender profiling has been met with increasing resistance given its exaggerated accuracy. The “Investigative Journalist/Expert Field Micro Task Force” model, a collaborative method that incorporates offender profiling and is designed to address unresolved serial homicides, is introduced and evaluated alongside recommendations on attaining adherence.,The model was field tested in 17 instances. The measures used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to gauge the usefulness of their case consultations, whether their input helped catch the offender, offer new leads, move the case forward, provide new avenues or give new ideas, were used to evaluate the model.,The model established likely patterns of serial murder activity among strangulations of women in Chicago, Cleveland, and Panama and resulted in convictions of suspects in Louisiana and Kansas City. This model is valuable when used to parse modern-day offenders from those who committed unresolved homicides as the latter display different behaviors that can make investigations difficult endeavors. Results from the field tests mirror those from the literature in that profiling alone did not result in the capture of serial killers. Instead, profiling was used in conjunction with other efforts and mainly as a means to keep the investigation moving forward.,Unresolved homicides are at a point of crisis and represent a significant but largely unaddressed societal problem. The success of this model may compel law enforcement to restore faith in offender profiling.

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评估研究人员，从业人员和调查新闻工作者使用基于数据的犯罪记录来解决未解决的连环杀人案

本文的目的是在犯罪者描述过程中改进循证实践的使用和研究利用。鉴于其夸张的准确性，越来越多的人遇到了使用违规剖析的情况。引入并评估了“调查新闻工作者/专家现场微型工作组”模型，该模型结合了犯罪者概况分析，旨在解决未解决的系列杀人案，并与获得遵守的建议一起进行了评估。该模型在17个实例中进行了现场测试。联邦调查局用来衡量案件咨询有用性的措施，包括其输入是否有助于抓获犯罪者，提供新线索，推动案件前进，提供新途径或提出新想法，均被用于评估模型。 ，该模型建立了芝加哥，克利夫兰和巴拿马绞杀妇女的连续谋杀活动的可能模式，并导致路易斯安那州和堪萨斯城的犯罪嫌疑人定罪。当用来解析那些犯下未解决凶杀案的现代罪犯时，该模型非常有价值，因为后者表现出不同的行为，可能会使调查工作变得困难。现场测试的结果与文献报道的结果相吻合，因为仅进行分析并不能捕获系列杀手。取而代之的是，将分析与其他工作结合起来使用，主要是为了使调查继续进行。未解决的凶杀案正处在危机时刻，代表了一个重大但基本上未解决的社会问题。