University students, police professionals, and a logistic regression model were provided with information on 38 pairs of burglaries, 20% of which were committed by the same offender, in order to examine their ability to accurately identify linked serial burglaries. For each offense pair, the information included: (1) the offense locations as points on a map, (2) the distance (in km) between the two offenses, (3) entry methods, (4) target characteristics, and (5) property stolen. Half of the participants received training informing them that the likelihood of two offenses being committed by the same offender increases as the distance between the offenses decreases. Results showed that students outperformed police professionals, that training increased decision accuracy, and that the logistic regression model achieved the highest rate of success. Potential explanations for these results are presented, focusing primarily on the participants' use of offense information, and their implications are discussed.

Despite the immense popularity of offender profiling as both a topic of fascination for the general public as well as an academic field of study, concerns have been raised about the development of this area of scientific inquiry. The present study provides a preliminary step towards moving the field forward as it reviews the type and quality of studies dealing with offender profiling over the past 31 years. Based on a content analysis of 132 published articles, the review indicates that researchers investigating this phenomenon rarely publish multiple articles, and they are generally reported across many different journals, thereby making knowledge synthesis and knowledge transfer problematic. In addition, the majority of papers published in the area are discussion pieces (e.g., discussing what profiling is, how profiles are constructed, and when profiling is useful), despite the fact that the processes underlying offender profiling are still not well understood. Finally, although peer-reviewed articles exploring this topic have steadily increased, the statistical sophistication of these studies is sorely lacking, with most including no statistics or formal analyses of data. Suggestions for future research and recommendations to streamline efforts in this field are provided based on the results of this review.

Nursing students are the future of nursing and are situated between the expectation of the public: that they will receive compassionate care, and the profession: that it will continue to develop technically to meet the needs of the changing healthcare economy. Research has focused on the factors affecting registered nurses' values in care, however, less is known regarding the factors that shape nursing students' values, attitudes, and perceptions of compassionate care. Six focus group discussions with 23 adult branch nursing students (years 1-3) from a United Kingdom (UK) university were conducted to ascertain their understanding of personal and professional values, factors influencing these values, and whether they felt these values influenced the way they provided compassionate care? Qualitative thematic analysis resulted in 5 themes, 3 of which were the focus of this paper: general values, fundamental nursing and nursing values. Participants considered a range of influencers of their general values, and demonstrated a transparency between their personal and professional values, with respect and Journal of Research in Nursing 0(0) 2 dignity being important. Fundamental nursing was complex to consider, but was considered to orientate around the provision of care in a compassionate way. Keywords Values, care and caring, compassion, nursing students, qualitative research, crosssectional design '[Fundamental nursing] adds a lot of value to people's lives that isn't necessarily measured' (FG3, P1, L156). 'Whatever the patient needs': Compassion. Participant's implied that there was a mutual relationship between dignity and compassion: Article 19 '[...] treating [the patient] with dignity and upholding their values, because I think dignity can be defined [...] but I think dignity is the same for most of us, we have got an idea of what that is' (FG1, P2, L70). Participants asserted that compassion was communicated through the use of good interpersonal skills such as active listening and the use of empathy: '[...] if you're just doing tasks [...] you're not actually realising that that person's probably been through two world wars [...] the person may never have been outside their home for the last 6 years, and you're the last person they've come across' (FG3, P2, L60). Similarly, empathy is communicated through active listening, conveying an acknowledgment of the patient as a person with values and beliefs: '[Compassion is demonstrated] by acknowledging [the patient's] values [...] listening to them.' (FG3, P1, L63, 65). Ultimately, fundamental nursing is dependent on the interconnectedness of care and compassion, which are underpinned and enhanced through the maintenance of Journal of Research in Nursing 0(0) 20 dignity and respect: '[Fundamental nursing implies] to build on other things as care, [such as] dignity [and] respect.' (FG5, P6, L73). There was a definite stance that fundamental nursing is about achieving 'whatever the patient needs'. While this appears at odds with the aforementioned complexities determin...

Keppel and Walter's (1999) classification system for serial sexual murder/murderers is sometimes used as the basis for generating offender profiles despite the fact that it has yet to be empirically validated. This model assumes that serial sexual murder/murderers can be classified into four categories-power-assertive, power-reassurance, anger-retaliation, and angerexcitation-according to the degree of anger and power exhibited by the offender in their criminal and noncriminal lives. Within the current study, assessing the validity of this model involved examining the crimes and backgrounds of 53 serial sexual murderers to determine if the categories proposed by Keppel and Walter could be identified. Proximity Scaling was used to examine the degree of co-occurrence between each and every behavior/characteristic. no evidence of highly cooccurring behaviors/characteristics from Keppel and Walter's proposed categories was found, indicating that the classification system is potentially invalid. results are discussed in terms of their theoretical and practical implications.

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