TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - Application of the behavioral investigative support system for profiling perpetrators of serial sexual assaults
JO  - Behavioral sciences and the law
A1  - Yokota, Kaeko
A1  - Fujita, Goro
A1  - Watanabe, Kazumi
A1  - Yoshimoto, Kaori
A1  - Wachi, Taeko
SP  - 841
EP  - 856
VL  - 25
IS  - 6
N2  - 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 /> 
LA  - en
SN  - 0735-3936
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bsl.793
ID  - ref1
ER  -