CRIM 454 Study Guide - Final Guide: Naval Criminal Investigative Service, American Psychological Association, Offender Profiling
25 Jan 2020
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Chapter 8: reconstructive psychological evaluation [the psychological autopsy: equivocal death analysis (eda): reconstructive psychological evaluation. Eda is conducted on a dead person for the purpose of determining not the cause, but the mode and motivation of the death. The investigation was relying almost exclusively on the information that had been collected by the nis: nis suggestion: fbi focus on clayton hartwig. Hartwig indicated before that he preferred to die as a result of an explosion. Fbi concluded that hartwig had intentionally caused the explosion of the uss iowa, acting alone committing suicide: us house of representatives armed services committee (hasc) was skeptical of the conclusions. Enlisted he assistance of the american psychological association (apa) to independently review and evaluate the. Fbi"s report and the navy"s conclusions: 12-member panel rejected the conclusions of the fbi behavioral analysis of hartwig. Was also skeptical of the fbi"s eda as a scientifically reliable and valid investigative method.
