PSY 622 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: David Canter, Sam Groth, Tacit Knowledge

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 622
• Professor: Alasdair Goodwill

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Differentiation assumption - people are unique in the way they commit offences so we should be able to differentiate b/w people, offenders are unique enough in behaviour that they can be differentiated between, behavioural investigative advice (bia) Consists of a number of police resources / tools: When there is a serial case, multiple murder sites, or disposal site ex. If a person is being tried for 4 cases, the expert can talk about the similarity in the four cases: risk/escalation assessment, escalation? frequency, violence, murder? recidivism research. Interviewing strategies: personality/gender matching, rapport-(cid:271)uildi(cid:374)g, gather e(cid:448)ide(cid:374)(cid:272)e/story (cid:862)get the(cid:373) talki(cid:374)g(cid:863) Criminal profiling: tarted (cid:271)y fbi (cid:894)(cid:1005)97(cid:1004)"s(cid:895) cri(cid:373)i(cid:374)al i(cid:374)(cid:448)estigati(cid:448)e a(cid:374)alysis (cid:894)e. g. , mi(cid:374)dhu(cid:374)ter(cid:895, fbi started profiling in 1970"s and it was, based on investigative or tacit knowledge (with clinical input; groth et al. ) detectives who worked violent crimes became profilers. Suspect prioritisation: my phd resear(cid:272)h (cid:449)as i(cid:374) i(cid:374)trodu(cid:272)i(cid:374)g a(cid:374)d de(cid:448)elopi(cid:374)g this alter(cid:374)ati(cid:448)e to (cid:862)(cid:272)lassi(cid:272)(cid:863) profili(cid:374)g . Profiling goal is to identify the offender.