"Profiling Notes" by LeahDiane

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Notes
-------------------There are three utilities to profiling. The first is elicit confessions the second is link suspects to crime. The third is what to look for when apprehencing a suspect. There are 5 types of profiling.

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1. Crime scene
2. Geographical
3. suspect based
4. Phychological
5. Phychological autopsy

Crime Scene profiling is a simple deduction of a sequence of events at the location

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Geographical is work, entertainment, shopping and home based.

Pychological is behavior

Phychological is using the scene of death.

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There are 5 main ways of death.
1. Natural Causes
2. Suicide
3. Homicide
4. Accidental
5. Undetermined

There are 7 components of criminal profiling

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1. Investigator
2. Crime scene
3. Victimology
4. Offender bahvior before and after crime
5. forensics
6. Anaylisis of modus operandi
7. Case controls

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Investigator- This person has to be objective, put bias and prejudice aside

Crime Scene- Location, what does it say about the offender.

Victimology- from content of crime; who what, when, where, how, why?

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Offender behavior-what did they do at locations

Analysis of Direct evidence, (forensics)- deductive part/lab part, to debate in public

Analysis of modus operendi- very instrusive process

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The 8 fundamental premises of criminal profiling
-------------------1. Crime scene reflects personality of offender
2. M.O. will remain similar
3. offender won't change his personality
4. Phycological profiling must have utility

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5. Signature of offender must remain static
6. # of serial crimes increase, greater chance offender will be I.Ded
7. More violent crime, greater chance offender will be I.Ded
8. Adolescent behavior cannot always be used to predict adult

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behavior.