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The investigative science in which known data about past crimes offenders and victims is used to predict the characteristics of an unknown offender in a new case is called

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The investigative science in which data about past crimes is DNA testing
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The investigative science in which known data about past crimes, offenders, and victims is used to predict the characteristics of an unknown offender in a new case is called offender profiling, or criminal profiling.

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Offender profiling is an investigative science or strategy that is used by enforcement agencies to establish the identity, personality or likely characteristics of a suspect in a new crime based on information about previous related crimes which might or might not have been carried out by the same offender.

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