PSYCH 3CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: George Metesky, David Canter, Offender Profiling
12 Mar 2018
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Psych 3cc3- chapter 3- the psychology of police investigations (79-92) Criminal profiling: to conduct interrogations, police need to have a viable suspect in custody. In many cases suspect identification is relatively easy because the victim and the offender are familiar with one another and there is often a clear motivation of the crime, such as passion, greed or revenge. To help set traps to flush out an offender. To determine whether a threatening note should be taken seriously. To give advice on how best to interrogate a suspect. To tell prosecutors how to break down defendants in cross-examination: many agencies no longer refer to the work they do as profiling. The rcmp prefers to use the term criminal investigative analysis, this suggests a broader focus than profiling. Post-offence behavior: sometimes these predictions are made by forensic psychologists and psychiatrists who have either clinical or research experience with offenders.
