Disentangling the Tenets
It is this apparent contradiction between the implications argued from offender homol- ogy research and the findings of the profiler accuracy research that, in the authors’ opinion, forms the nub of the conundrum and thus disjuncture informing the premise of criminal profiling. Consequently, this manuscript attempts an integration of these seemingly opposing positions. In so embarking, it is perhaps worth reflecting upon the wisdom of Aristotle who observed,
. . . the investigation of truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able to attain the truth adequately; while on the other hand, no one fails entirely, but everyone says something true about the nature of things and while individually they contribute little or nothing to the truth, by the union of all a considerable amount of information is amassed. (Freeman, 2003, p. 7)