The book feels like a writer working within his limits and not breaking any new ground, believes KEN COCKBURN
On track for dystopia
A new book on profiling reveals just how far down the road to a Big Brother society we've gone, says ANDY HEDGECOCK
ANDREAS Bernard’s extensive and diligent history of profiling is one of repression, disappointed dreams and a toxic shift in human psychology.
Beginning with an exploration of criminal profiling from the 1770s and its attempts to predict behaviour on the basis of facial features, he moves on to efforts by psychoanalysts and criminologists to use a battery of personal characteristics to identify potential arsonists and rapists.
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