PSYC 3310 Lecture 4: Profiling
30 Jan 2017
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*topics talked about in class and in textbook will be short answer. Comparison question test (lecture): control questions involving behaviours that may make suspects uncomfortable but have nothing to do with the crime. Concealed information test (lecture): details only the perpetrator would know. Uses crime-relevant question as its own control. Majority believed themselves to be good judges of when someone is lying. Emphasis placed on knowing when a friend or family member is lying (i. e. , someone you know well) Mix of skepticism and hopefulness re: lie detection technologies. Profiling: the process of drawing inferences about a criminal"s personality, behaviour, motivation, and demographic characteristics based on crime scenes and evidence (costanzo et al. , 2014, p. 88) Information about the crime ie. crime scene, victim and making an inference about the criminal. Not a one-off type of crime, more a serial type of crime. But: modern criminal profiling generally dated to 1970s-1980s.
