crimes profiling

Course Description

This course will familiarize students with the issues surrounding concepts of crime, criminals, crime typologies, and societal responses to crime. Students will examine the theoretical, methodological, and policy issues in criminology and criminal justice.

Student Learning Objectives/Outcomes:

By the conclusion of the course, students will:

1. define profiling, introduce the various types of profiling methods and outline the history of profiling.

2. explain, define and identify strengths & weaknesses of induction and deduction, as well as formulate the use of logic in criminal profiling.

3. define, explain and review the concepts of behavioral consistency, homology assumption, offender signature and case linkage.

4. discuss the use of profiling in court cases and the future of profiling.

5. identify, list, describe or analyze the relationship between crime, psychology and treatment

6. introduce and discuss motivations, both offender perspectives and victim perspectives and link personality disorders to the victim and offender typologies. T

two pages