@article{ref1,
title="Application of the behavioral investigative support system for profiling perpetrators of serial sexual assaults",
journal="Behavioral sciences and the law",
year="2007",
author="Yokota, Kaeko and Fujita, Goro and Watanabe, Kazumi and Yoshimoto, Kaori and Wachi, Taeko",
volume="25",
number="6",
pages="841-856",
abstract="The authors developed a data-based profiling system in order to support offender profiling. The system stored incident records of prior offenders. Inputting offence details of an unsolved incident, a probability score was assigned to each prior offender in the system; the score represented the behavioral similarity with the unsolved incident. The system then ranked all offenders in the system according to the probability scores, and prioritized the high-ranked offenders as possible suspects. Moreover, the system inferred the characteristics of unknown offenders by accumulating characteristics of the high-ranked offenders. The system achieved promising accuracy, especially for linking crimes to perpetrators. In 45 out of 81 simulation trials, the target offenders were retrieved as a rank score of 1 from among 868 sex offenders. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0735-3936",
doi="10.1002/bsl.793",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bsl.793"
}