The two new institutions join the University of Birmingham, Aston University and Birmingham City University.

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Criminologist Prof David Wilson of Birmingham City University, who once worked on the sex offender treatment programme at Grendon prison, says psychological profiling can indicate whether such a criminal is less likely to re-offend - but ultimately, the nature of the offence makes it impossible to be absolutely certain.

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Art history expert Matthew Rampley, from the University of Birmingham, said the city needed something to give it an "obvious public profile".

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Wes graduated from the University of Birmingham and joined ITV Central in the city as a trainee broadcast journalist.

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Davis, professor of pathology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and associate coroner for Jefferson County, which includes the city.

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