PSY 622 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Investigative Psychology, Offender Profiling, Cognitive Interview
15 Dec 2015
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04/10/2015 (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1: crime scene analysis and offender characteristics. Profiling prediction: don"t have suspect lists. Suspect prioritization: who to focus on first, like profiling but more calculating probability for each suspect. Geographical profiling: offender spatial movement/patterns, routine activity analysis. Case linkage: behavioural linking of offences, similar fact evidence in courts. Matching interviewee and interviewers in personality: cognitive interview. How questions should be asked: main tenets. Behaviour reflects way they are in non criminal. Individual behaviour is similar enough that offences can be linked. The way an individual commits different crimes have to be similar. Individual offenders are unique enough that they can be differentiated between. Different offenders have to act different so that. What order should questions be asked (cid:1) (cid:1) Crime scene actions relate to offender characteristics. 3 factors that need to be present for profiling to actually work we can tell them apart. Contemporary challenges: profiling vs. suspect prioritization, propensities vs. behaviours.
