PSYCH230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Psychoanalysis, Personation, Victimology

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH230
• Professor: John Rempel

Document Summary

Criminalistics: can physical evidence be useful to solve crime, finger prints are unique to the individual. Criminological typing: lombroso, to be successful to find animals: physical evidence (tracks, poop trail, etc) and general characteristics, know what the animals tend to do and will increase the likelihood of catching an animal. High-brow vs low-brow: depending on head shape or specifically where their brow is located then it may show that they are prone to certain crime. Psychoanalysis: mad bomber case left notes, left bombs around new york. Ie - wrote his w"s that look like woman"s breast and therefore he probably lived with his mother or sisters. Empiricists: started collecting data, need to collect more and better data, can"t eyeball it; use statistical analysis. Core assumptions of profiling behavior is subject: criminal behavior is subject to the same set of grand laws of human behavior to which noncriminal. Whatever the basics of human behavior will apply to you/me.