Criminal Profiling: Real Science or Just Wishful Thinking?

Homicide Studies

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 234-264

  Muller, Damon A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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EID: 84993710041     PISSN: 10887679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1088767900004003003     Document Type: Article

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