LS272 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Crime Classification Manual, Multivariate Analysis, Psychoanalysis
13 Feb 2019
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Ls 272 - lecture 7 - criminal profiling. Not nearly as good as it appears on television. Another tool that adds to our ability to narrow the pool of options (focus resources more tightly) Helps you narrow down where to look. Ex) the habitat of a particular species narrows down where to start looking. Using the information, learning where to look. Criminals will often leave behind evidence of their presence fingerprints . Use information about a person that we can identify without necessarily talking to them to get to know them (profiling way of thinking) We make quick assumptions of people based on little information clothing style, hairstyle Certain physical characteristics were associated with certain criminal tendencies. High brow vs low brow (more likely to be violent) Writing, specifically how he wrote letter w looking like bewbs = likely to be living w/ female relatives.
