CRIM 454 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: David Canter, Investigative Psychology, Offender Profiling
5 Feb 2019
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Week 3: scientific approaches to crime scene profiling. As a matter of routine, profilers make predictions or assumptions about an offender"s personality. The profiler"s role is to solve the crime. Profiling as a whole is an established scientific endeavor. Statements about personality are often not helpful to investigators. Profilers provide information that may or may not be helpful to investigators. Profilers who are not law enforcement officers should not consider themselves an arm of law enforcement. Although the scientific approach is recommended, profiling is in its early stages and is far from being established as a science. Clinically based crime scene profiling: fbi behavioral science unit; Scientific crime scene profiling: david canter in the uk investigative psychology (ip); The railway killer (youtube vid how david canter helped to catch this offender) The main difference between the fbi criminal profiling and ip is that ip is statistical, research- based orientation.
