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Profil may refer to:
- La Mouette Profil, a French hang glider design
- Profil (band), a French musical group
- Profil (literary magazine), a Norwegian literary magazine
- profil (magazine), an Austrian news magazine
- Profil (publisher), a Croatian publisher
- Profil (Unix), a system call in Unix
Profil was a band that represented France in Eurovision Song Contest 1980 with the entry Hè Hé M'sieurs dames (11th place, 45 pts). The band members were: Martine Havet, Martine Bauer, Francis Rignault, Jean-Claude Corbel and Jean-Pierre Izbinski.
profil is an Austrian weekly news magazine published in German and based in Vienna.
Profil was a Norwegian literary magazine which had great influence in the late 1960s and the 1970s. The magazine was founded in 1938 as Filologen, a house organ for the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Oslo. Its name was changed to Profil in 1959. In 1966 the magazine was taken over by a group of radical students. They opposed established literary views, and introduced the modernist literature. The circle of writers that emerged are often referred to as the "Profil Generation".
Usage examples of "profil".
This chapter focuses on the developing technique of criminal profiling by Special Agents at the FBI Academy who have demonstrated expertise in crime scene analysis of various violent crimes, particularly those involving sexual homicide.
Two of the eighteen cases were profiled by the Behavioral Science Unit at the FBI Academy.
We do not mean to imply that all unsolved cases can be profiled successfully.
In certain respects, at least one of the offenders had profiled himself.
From the scenario and the crime scene evidence, I profiled a white male in his thirties, a respectable-looking man, not at all threatening in his appearance.
Given that the killer left no prints or other obvious clues at the scene, Jud profiled an intelligent offender with a prior record of crimes like burglary and sexual assault.
Lucien has been taught the glyph of a profiled wheelchair with an enormous bone-crossed skull below.
The agents involved in criminal profiling were able to classify murderers as either organized or disorganized in their commission of the crimes.
Nevertheless, a 1981 FBI evaluation questionnaire sent to field offices regarding the profiling service revealed that the criminal personality assessment had helped focus the investigation in 77 percent of those cases in which the suspects were subsequently identified.
The FBI Study With the development of the criminal profiling project, a study of crime scene analysis was proposed by involved FBI agents.
Second, it would identify variables, or specific characteristics, that may be useful in profiling sexual murderers and for which organized and disorganized sexual murderers differ statistically.
Criminal profiling and criminal personality assessment are ways in which law enforcement has sought to combine the results of studies in other disciplines with more traditional investigative techniques in an effort to combat violent criminal behavior.
Criminal profiling has been used by law enforcement with success in many areas and is viewed as a way in which the investigating officer can narrow the field of investigation.
Rapists and arsonists also lend themselves to criminal profiling tech niques.
A new dimension of information is available to the investigator through profiling techniques.