PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Disorganized Crime, Dennis Rader, Waycross, Georgia
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1: kim rossmo, kim rossmo, university endowed chair in criminology, director of the center for geospatial. Behavioral profiling and geographic profiling are both types of what is known as criminal or offender profiling. Criminal profiling is defined as the inference of offender characteristics from offense characteristics. Criminal profiling: profiling is a concept that organizes, explains or makes investigative sense out of apparent crime scene dynamics, analyze crimes scenes in order to gain an organized understanding of personality, behavioural, and motivational characteristics. What do profilers do: provide investigators with a personality composite, behavioral tendencies and demographic features of the unknown offender, also, crime and threat analysis, investigative assistance, strategies for interviews and prosecution, and expert testimony. Unusual, bizarre, violent, sexual, and repetitive (serial) crimes. Underlying assumptions: homology (agreement between personality and behavior, consistency. The only ways to solve a crime: 1, 2, 3.
