FORENSICS - Profiling - general overview
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- Created on: 02-12-18 16:30
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- Profiling - general overview
- What is offender profiling?
- originally coined by US FBI
- gives a likely description of offender based on analysis of:
- crime scene
- victim
- other available evidence
- Davis (1977) - profiling most common controversial and misunderstood area of criminal detection
- distorted by media perception and popular fiction (Silence of the Lambs)
- reality - a viable process but unproven, subjective and rarely providing specific identities
- Goals of profiling
- doesn't solve crimes - only narrows potentials
- Holmes and Holmes (1996) identified 3 major goals of profiling:
- social and psychological assessment
- basic info - personality, age, race, sex, employment, education, marital status
- psychological evaluation of belongings
- possessions associate offender with crime scene eg. souvenirs, photos, pron
- interviewing suggestions and strategies
- specific interviewing strategies developed for different offenders
- flattered / appalled by crime -> show pics of crime scene
- specific interviewing strategies developed for different offenders
- social and psychological assessment
- What is offender profiling?
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