LS372 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Subsequence, Psychopathology, Inference
3 Apr 2016
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Criminal behaviour is subject to the same set of grand laws of human behaviour to which non criminal behaviour is subject. The psychological laws that govern people in general, that describe human behaviour, apply to offenders and non-offenders as humans in general. Behaviour is a function of the person and the environment where environment is broken down into victim and context. Corollary 1b) criminal behaviour can reflect relatively stable, inferrable characteristics. Corollary 1c) criminal behaviour is not exclusively the outgrowth of psychopathology. Corollary 1d) criminal behaviour, like human behaviour in general, can be symbolic. Based on psychical evidence we create an event reconstruction, from this we try to figure out a set of behaviours and then infer their intentions. From these inferred intentions try to come up with generalized characteristics. Corollary 2a) a profile is only as good as the physical evidence and subsequence event reconstruction on which it is based.
