The Jigsaw Man

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Authority data (person): GND : 120174693 ( OGND , AKS ) | LCCN : nb97012919 | VIAF : 53639489 | Wikipedia people search personal data After primary school , he failed the entrance exams ( Eleven Plus Exam ) to the high school branch of a secondary school. Later he complained that only the children from the better families received sufficient support from the school to be able to pass this test, while the children of the lower classes did not receive this special instruction. As a result, all children of the lower classes failed the test, while those of middle class families, regardless of intellectual level, passed it due to the thorough preparation on the part of the teachers. Despite the maximum school leaving certificate that he can now achieve, the British equivalent of the secondary school leaving certificate , the desire to study arose early on.

The James Bulger murder is an event that I remember well and I, like many, was horrified when we found out that he had been murdered by two young boys. Britton gives quite a lot of detail on the case including what the boys did to James before and after they killed him. This is not easy reading and is definitely something that has stayed with me since I finished the book. Consider yourself warned. Paul Britton has helped with most of the high-profile cases that have hit our newspapers and TV screens in the last twenty years. He doesn't glorify the cases he covers, he simply tells the story of their investigation. The police, in most cases, come out looking good. We learn very little about Paul himself, but you cannot help but realise what his job must have cost him. He mentions his faith, and I hope he holds on to it, because nothing else could make sense out of what he sees every week. I love reading crime and thriller fiction books and I enjoy watching true crime programmes on tv so when friends were discussing The Jigsaw Man by Paul Britton I was immediately intrigued and wanted to read it. An appalling, self-serving book full of pop-psychology and in some cases downright false claims. For instance, Britton tries to play down his role in the investigation of Colin Stagg in the Wimbledon Common Murder case, despite the fact that he was advising the police even while they were interviewing Stagg at the time of his first arrest. While the subject matter, for the most part, is both carry and horrific, Britton goes out of his way to make it as digestible as he can. He split the book up to show the type of cases he works on and how each requires a different skill set to break apart. For many people living in England a lot of them will be very recognizable. For those outside perhaps not after all each of your countries has cases that spent week s in the news and will be remembered forever. For me, at least the serial killers Fred and Rosemary west is still rattling about in my subconscious. While I was too young to really take any notice of it at the time it is one of those stories that has left a stain that will never go away. The other is that of the Jamie Bulger, it wasn't until reading this book that I realized these two boys who had been turned in the spawn of the devil by the news were in fact around my own ages. A fact that seems to have a very chilling effect on me. In reading their interviews you get a very disturbing insight into these two boys worlds and just how little they cared.In 1998 Paul Britton wrote an autobiography detailing his participation in investigations into spectacular criminal cases from his perspective. In the book he presents his methods and does not ignore the emotional and family burdens that his work has brought him. He wrote: “ If you experience death and grief every day through your job, you can never escape this experience. Every time I get fully involved, it diminishes my ability to enjoy life. I still find the colors bright, the sun is still warm, and people are still smiling, but somehow I'm entering an area that prevents me from really enjoying these things. " Participation in the investigation of spectacular criminal cases (selection) Caroline Osborne and Amanda Weedon murders The study, which was based above all on the questioning of all departments and the data of some criminalistic-psychological institutes of the Ministry of the Interior, shows a disillusioning picture of “ profiling ". The majority of the effort was not effective or even counterproductive. Many creators of perpetrator profiles were incompetent or put other goals such as reputation enhancement and their own financial interests in the foreground. Nevertheless, there were also promising approaches, especially from the university environment and the practical area of ​​clinical psychology. He was then given the task of developing recommendations for promoting the promising approaches. These included the expansion of a central database for violent crimes, a quality analysis of the perpetrator profile after each investigation and the drafting of a computer program to identify common features in violent crimes committed by serial perpetrators to be able to find earlier, as well as the training of investigators. He may be attracted to some form of pornography that plays a role in his sexual fantasies. There would be some violent aspects to it and he would fantasize about similar experiences. Britton came to psychology late. He spent a year as a police cadet, then took a series of jobs before studying psychology in his late 20s. While working at a psychiatric hospital in Leicestershire, he was asked, informally, to help in a murder inquiry. His reputation grew and he became head of the regional forensic psychology service. He was consulted on some of the most notorious crimes of the 80s and 90s, from the kidnapping of Stephanie Slater to the horrors of Fred and Rosemary West's house. His appearance before the British Psychological Society stems from a complaint about Colin Stagg's treatment. It is understood that it has taken so long for the society to put the allegations before Britton because of the possibility that civil action would be taken against the psychologist.

Since 1983 he has been advising police services across the country on serious criminal cases free of charge in his spare time. The relevant international psychological literature as well as the results of his own studies serve as the technical basis of his work. In 1990 he was commissioned by the British Home Office to write an expert opinion on the use of psychological perpetrator profiles in the British police and their so far completely unknown real utility. At the same time he should compare the use in the British system with that in the American and continental European systems.

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Psychological profiler, Paul Britton details his involvement in helping the police to solve crimes, including high-profile cases of the 90s, such as Fred and Rose West and Jamie Bulger’s killers. The result is an interesting (if gruesome) perspective on criminality and police procedure. BBC News, Oct. 30, 2002: charges against Paul Britton dropped (in English, with photo of Paul Britton)