Many will have heard of him and read about his work on the Yorkshire Ripper case.
I believe he was the first to apply mathematics to the subject of identifying an offender's location, and as such was the father of geographic profiling.
For those who don't know, Peter Sutcliffe selected victims across a pretty wide area, mostly West Yorkshire. Kind was brought in to assist the police in an effort to understand where Sutcliffe lived. Kind deduced that the murderer lived in the Manningham/Shipley area, parts of North Bradford. As it turned out, Kind was absolutely correct: Sutcliffe lived in Bingley which is between Manningham and Shipley. 'No mean feat considering Leeds, Bradford, Halifax and Huddersfield; is a big area.
A real life geographic profiler whose ability to deduce an offender's location is proven.
Kind worked on two assumptions:
1) The earlier murders in the series would be closer to home.
2) Most interestingly, the later TODs would be closer to home also. The reason Kind gave for this is a long story, and it had much to do with the natural instinct of animals and sleep. An inbuilt mechanism, out of the control of an offender.
Utilising Kind's proven assumptions, Flower and Dean Street and its surrounding streets would seem unlikely.
I know there are a few people here interested in geographical profiling and so those unaware of Stuart Kind may find that interesting.
Geographic profiling does have its limitations of course, and one of those may be relevant to the WM: an offender targeting a select type of person in a select area, as opposed to searching for opportunities in the environment surrounding his home. That would render geographic profiling redundant.
I believe he was the first to apply mathematics to the subject of identifying an offender's location, and as such was the father of geographic profiling.
For those who don't know, Peter Sutcliffe selected victims across a pretty wide area, mostly West Yorkshire. Kind was brought in to assist the police in an effort to understand where Sutcliffe lived. Kind deduced that the murderer lived in the Manningham/Shipley area, parts of North Bradford. As it turned out, Kind was absolutely correct: Sutcliffe lived in Bingley which is between Manningham and Shipley. 'No mean feat considering Leeds, Bradford, Halifax and Huddersfield; is a big area.
A real life geographic profiler whose ability to deduce an offender's location is proven.
Kind worked on two assumptions:
1) The earlier murders in the series would be closer to home.
2) Most interestingly, the later TODs would be closer to home also. The reason Kind gave for this is a long story, and it had much to do with the natural instinct of animals and sleep. An inbuilt mechanism, out of the control of an offender.
Utilising Kind's proven assumptions, Flower and Dean Street and its surrounding streets would seem unlikely.
I know there are a few people here interested in geographical profiling and so those unaware of Stuart Kind may find that interesting.
Geographic profiling does have its limitations of course, and one of those may be relevant to the WM: an offender targeting a select type of person in a select area, as opposed to searching for opportunities in the environment surrounding his home. That would render geographic profiling redundant.
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