Criminal Profiling

Criminal Profiling

Studying evidence of a crime to make predictions about the person who committed the crime

Criminal profiling doesn’t identify the person it what

helps investigatiors

Criminal profiling is based on what

Patterns ans psychology, evidence must be facts

When was the FBI created

1972

Why was the FBI created

To help law enforcement with difficult cases

What are the 6 steps of Criminal Investigation Analysis

Input, Decision Process, Crime Assessment, criminal profiling, investigation and apprehension

What is Input

Collecting and analyzing info

Input collects what types of data

Autopsy, Incident details, Interviews, Photographs etc

What is Decision Process

Analysis victims offrender risk

In decision process what do criminal profilers decide

Crime type and Style

what are the types of crimes

Serial, Spree, Mass

what are the crime styles

Organized, Disorganized, Power/ Control, Anger/ Emotion, Mission/ Oriented

What Crime Assessment

They reconstructed events that took place

What are things during the Crime Assessment that are asked

how did the offender enter or exit the scene, what happened before