Criminal Profiling
Student Notes
Psychological Profiling
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Involves investigating
a. The offender's
i.
ii.
iii.
b. As a guide of how the investigation should go
2.
Analyze the criminal's
a.
i. Investigators can link similarities between previous crimes
3.
Public Assistance with the investigation
i. Details released to the
ii. Others may recognized some or all of the profile
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Inductive Profiling
a. When a criminal commits a crime
i. They will have a similar
to others who have committed a similar crime.
b. Used to draw conclusions
i. A particular http://everything2.com/title/crime
ii. Based on other crimes and criminals with similar
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and
or
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Deductive Profiling
a. Tries to avoid
.
b. Suspects are analyzed in great detail.
c. Modify findings in which new evidence surfaces.
d. Profile is established using the offender's actions
,
and
committing the crime.
e. Also known as
:
i. Pieces the evidence together
1. Investigators can reconstruct the behavior of the offender
2. Evidence can be analyzed to classify the criminal
Offender Profiling
1.
Offender profiling has four phases
a.
i. What plan did the offender have in place
ii. What triggered the murderer to act
?
the act?
and
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b.
i. What type
did the murderer select?
ii. What was the method and manner of murder?
1. Shooting
2. Stabbing
3. Strangulation
4. other
c.
i. Did the crime and body disposal take place
ii.
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d.
i. Is the murderer trying to
1. Reacting to
2. Contacting
into the investigation?
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