PSYC39H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Disorganized Crime, Offender Profiling, Threat Assessment
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Ch 10 multiple murder, school and workplace violence. Investigative psychology (cid:498)profiling(cid:499) is often avoided: many profilers tend to rely on (cid:498)hunches(cid:499) rather than scientific data, activity is unregulated in the us. Base rate the unconditional, naturally occuring rate of phenomenon in a population. Psychological profiling: desgined to help in the identification & prediction of beh in known indivs: not limited to (-) characteristics. May be used to predict (+) characteristics: consist of 2 basic approaches threat assessment determining the validity and seriousness of threat being carried out by a person/group of ppl (usually, he threat has already been made) Risk assessment comes even if no direct threat has been made. Evaluates indvis who have violated social norms. Goal is to est the prob a person will harm self/others, & esp, to provide what can be done to prevent the harm. Behavioral sceince unit: primarily was used to investigate assistance to law enforcement in cases of serial homicide and serial rape.
