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Examining the mind of a cybercrook
Examining the mind of a cybercrook
By Varsha Chidambaram, CIO India | Jan 18, 2012
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PrintWhich of the following is most likely to get stopped and interrogated at the JFK International Airport?
a) An eccentric scientist carrying exotic species of insects?
b) Charlie Sheen?
c) A brown-skinned man wearing a robe?
If you're thinking C then you're probably aware that criminal profiling is a practice that law enforcement agencies around the world use. In fact, it's being used so much that it's given profiling a bad name. But the basic premise is sturdy: Bad guys are predictable because they are creatures of habit.
And that's why criminal profiling is beginning to spread to the cyber world.
Reading Minds
For years now, forensic psychologists and behavioral sciences have been working in collaboration with law enforcement agencies to integrate psychological science into criminal profiling.
The most popular method of criminal profiling, offender profiling, aims to identify criminals based on an analysis of their behavior while they engage in the crime. The underlying rational is simple: If behavior is common across crimes, it is probably the same criminal because behavior is related to the psycho-socio characteristics of an offender.
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