11.3 The series of rapes and murders carried out by John Duffy 199 11.4 John Duffy – the Railway Killer 201 11.5 Comparison of actual and ‘‘mental’’ map 204 11.6 Modelling offence location …

This information helped David Canter to produce a profile that subsequently led to the arrest of John Duffy. Canter described 17 personality traits of which 12 were completely accurate.

Case study – profiling the ‘railway rapist’ (adapted from Canter, 1994) During the period 1982-1986, 24 sexual assaults and three murders were committed near railways in North London. …

John Duffy, the Railway Rapist, was a criminal case where offender profiling was successful. Duffy committed 24 acts of sexual assault and 3 murders between 1982 and 1986. David Canter (a …

Activity – John Duffy ‘The Railway Rapist’ Profiling You need to create a poster in which you give an informed insight into the UK’s first success story using investigative psychology (UK …

one of them, John Duffy, was in the police records for attacking his estranged wife and had lived in the Kilburn area during the early rapes. Therefore a major surveillance was put on Duffy. …

This is a form of bottom-up profiling developed by Canter that matches details from the crime with statistical analysis of typical offender behaviour patterns based on psychological theory. Crime …

To cut a long story short, John Duffy was brought to justice for the murders and rapes. Canter "contributed to his capture", as he puts it, by applying a process that would become known as …

John Duffy was a brutal rapist and killer who struck lone women at railway stations throughout the southeast of England and London. He was at first thought to have carried out his heinous …

crime. The case (Regina v. Stagg, 1994), along with the specific comments made by the judge, will be discussed in Chapter 9. In the other direction British profiling took, psy-chologist David …

Canter became interested after reading reports. 1980s two police officers were appointed to assist him in drawing up a criminal profile. He placed all the cases on a map to speculate where the …

Nov 5, 2014 · Canter and Heritage., (1990) – ‘A multivariate model of sexual offence behaviour: developments in offender profiling’, Journal of Forensic Psychiatry 1, 185-212. Background. …

Professor Canter became known internationally in 1986 for the offender profile that helped the police to catch the “Railway Rapist” and serial killer John Duffy. This was the first time such a …

Case background: 24 sexual assaults over a 4 year period, lone women at railway stations throughout the southeast of England and London. How was the profile generated: David …

This case involved 24 sexual assaults near railways in North London, and three murders (between 1982 and 1986). All the crimes showed signs of having the same offender. The first attacks …

Canter's scientific analysis of the crimes and their locations led him to hypothesise where the culprit might live, and as a result John Duffy was caught and convicted.

Key study 3: Canter- The case of John Duffy. Background: Cnater first became interested in the case when he bought a copy of the evening standard when it had on the front cover details of …