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RETROSPECTIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILING AS A METHOD FOR ANALYSING HISTORICAL SERIAL CRIMES: A CASE STUDY BASED ON THE JACK THE RIPPER CASE
2026-09-03
ABSTRACT
Object of study: the historical case of serial murders in Whitechapel (London, 1888), attributed to an unidentified person known as "Jack the Ripper".
Objective: to demonstrate the possibilities of the retrospective psychological profiling method (A. O. Bukhanovsky) in application to a historical serial crime in the absence of direct physical evidence.
Method: retrospective psychological profiling by Bukhanovsky, the concept of "pseudo-investigative" motive (Yu. M. Antonyan, V. V. Guldán), and the clinical model of avoidant-schizoid pattern. The procedure included four stages: data collection and systematization, identification of stable patterns, reconstruction of motivational dominants, and construction of a socio-psychological profile.
Results: the biographical analysis of George Chapman (Severin Klosowski) showed his correspondence with the reconstructed profile on key parameters. Convergence of the obtained profile with the independent FBI expert assessment (J. Douglas, 1988) developed in a different methodological tradition was established.
Conclusions: the work is not an attempt at legal identification. Its purpose is to show how a clinically grounded model of motivation can be applied to historical material, what conclusions follow, and what limitations such an approach entails. The proposed model can serve as a didactic tool in profiler training and a heuristic framework for analyzing non-sexual serial homicides.
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Романов К. А. 2026. RETROSPECTIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILING AS A METHOD FOR ANALYSING HISTORICAL SERIAL CRIMES: A CASE STUDY BASED ON THE JACK THE RIPPER CASE. PREPRINTS.RU. https://doi.org/10.24108/preprints-3116196
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