CRIM 454 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Investigative Psychology, David Canter, Offender Profiling
25 Jan 2020
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Scientific approaches to crime scene profiling and crime scene behavior. As a matter of routine, profilers make predictions/assumptions about an offender"s personality. The profiler"s role is to solve the crime. Infer offender characteristics from the crime scene hints. Beginnings of scientific crime scene profiling: clinically based crime scene profiling: fbi behavioral science unit, scientific crime scene profiling: david canter in the uk investigative psychology (ip) Offers a different approach to criminal profiling. Investigative psychology is a statistical, research-based orientation (different from the clinically based approach: principle of the approach is good but the quality of the outputs are questionable. Investigative psychology program (master and phd: started at the university of surrey (uk, 10 years later: moved to the university of liverpool (uk, now: university of huddersfield (uk) Personality paradox: the readiness to invoke dispositions rather than explain behavior in terms of situational influences.
