PSYC 3310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Eric Rudolph, Offender Profiling, New York City Police Department

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3310
• Professor: Caroline Erentzen

Document Summary

Profiling the process of drawing inferences about a criminal"s personality, behavior, motivation, and demographic characteristics based on crime scenes and other evidence. Serial killers murderers who kill three or more people in separate events, with a cooling-off period between murders. To create a tentative description/profile of the criminal, profilers analyze crime scenes, gather information about the victims, and study both police and autopsy reports. Signature aspect of the crime the distinctive, personal aspect of the crime that presumable reveals the personality of the killer. In 1888, he terrorized the east end of london, strangling or slitting the throats of at least. Dr. thomas bond formulated what may have been considered the first criminal profile on. Jack the ripper, even though he was never caught. Bomb explosion during the 1996 summer olympics in atlanta, georgia. Police had caught who they thought was the olympic bomber, mr. jewell, but had no evidence uncovered that could link him to the bombing.