PSYC 3600 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Serial Crime, Richard Jewell, Consolidated Edison

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3600
• Professor: Timothy Moore

Document Summary

There are only about a dozen fbi agents in the united states who specialize in profiling. The profiling techniques used by the fbi have been most applied to cases involving serial killers. Profilers emphasize the important of the signature aspect of the crime. This signature is the distinctive, personal aspect of the crime that presumably reveals the personality of the killer. This appears to be the first systematic profile offered to assist police in a criminal investigation. Based on evidence uncovered at the scene of the bombing, the fbi instructed police to search for a single, white, middle-class male with an intense interest in police work and law enforcement. Police focused their attention on richard jewell, a security guard at the olympic park who fit the profile in every respect. Only after 3 months did the fbi admit that they had uncovered no evidence linking jewell to the bombing.