PSYCH 3CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Offender Profiling
5 Nov 2020
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Studied 6 groups of australian profilers: 35 police officers, 30 psychologists, 30 2nd year university students (science, economics, 20 psychics, 5 profilers, 23 university economics students (control. Given details of 2 solved homicides: crime scene report; forensic biologist"s report; forensic entomologist"s report; pathologist"s postmortem report; info on victim; plan & photos of crime site and victim. Examined 880 statements in 21 profiles from u. s. , u. k. (including fbi): Majority of profile statements about offense, and already known to investigators. 55% of offender descriptions not verifiable (emotions, motives, thoughts, etc. ) 24% of offender descriptions ambiguous (e. g. , poor heterosexual social skills) 24% of offender descriptions ambiguous (e. g. , poor heterosexual social skills) kocsis (2004) Studied 6 groups of australian profilers: 3 profilers, 13 police detectives, 12 fire investigators, 21 2nd year chemistry students, 47 community college students (control) Given details re serial arsonist (13 fires)
