As the summer of 1988 transitioned to autumn, two London physicians dedicated themselves to uncovering the identity of infamous serial killer Jack the Ripper. Using a combination of autopsy results ...

The FBI formed its Behavioral Science Unit in 1974 to study serial predators. Since then, the art and craft of criminal profiling have become the subject of numerous books, TV shows and iconic films ...

With just one day until the midterm elections in Georgia, voters across the U.S. weighed in on recent controversial comments from Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams on crime and racial ...

This is Episode 12 of Real Future, Fusion’s documentary series about technology and society. More episodes available at realfuture.tv. There’s a new kind of software that claims to help law ...

It is former Sen. Eugene McCarthy's axiom: Anything said three times in Washington becomes a fact. So it now is a fact, universally attested and detested, that racial profiling is a widespread police ...

Before the FBI began to develop its program for behavioral profiling in the 1970s, others involved in law enforcement had performed a similar psychological analysis of crime scenes. Some influenced ...

State and federal statistics showing crime is on the decline are encouraging to law-abiding citizens, but that doesn't stop them from being concerned about crime in their cities or towns. They expect ...

Since Aug. 1, there have been at least 17 robberies on and around the Minneapolis campus, according to crime alerts issued by the U police. (Jeff Wheeler/The Minnesota Star Tribune) A spate of campus ...

The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) says it is against ethnic profiling of crime and criminality in the country. The meeting, in which the governors comprehensively reviewed the state of security ...

From January 1996 to February 1997, an unknown man was raping and killing women on the streets of Raleigh. The pattern was lifeless bodies left out or “displayed” after being sexually assaulted and ...

In an age when a computer-based solution is offered for nearly every problem, it's almost a knee-jerk reaction to look for an automated method to address difficult situations. This is as true in law ...