The Jigsaw Man

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The prosecution tried to convince me that the purpose of the exercise was to induce the defendant to either exonerate himself or to further incriminate himself.

Udało mu się zachować odpowiednie proporcje pomiędzy perspektywą osobistą a zawodową oraz rzetelnie i drobiazgowo przeprowadzić czytelnika przez profesję profilera.The modern history of what came to be known as "offender profiling" began in the 40s when the US Office of Strategic Services asked William Langer, a psychiatrist, to draw up a profile of Adolf Hitler. After the second world war, Lionel Haward, a psychologist working for the Royal Air Force, drew up a list of characteristics which high-ranking Nazi war criminals might display. Britton discussed his theory during a senior investigative officer conference that the perpetrator could have come from the ranks of the police, as he has so far left no forensic evidence and has undermined all investigative tactics. Paul Britton has helped with most of the high-profile cases that have hit our newspapers and TV screens in the last twenty years.

Notably, Britton’s credentials remain in dispute, as his profiling led to the prolonged arrest of an innocent man. In contrast to the investigating officers, he considered the act in the house to be the key act and suspected that the perpetrator must have already become suspicious of the police with property crimes, since the intrusion into the strange apartment took place with a certain routine without any signs of insecurity.An intensely private and unassuming man, Britton has an almost mythic status in the field of crime deduction because of his ability to 'walk through the minds' of those who stalk, abduct, torture, rape and kill other human beings.