PYC 7402 ADVANCED CRIMINAL PROFILING (3)

This course explores the research and science of criminal investigative analysis, primarily in serial offenders. It studies the process of inferring distinctive personality characteristics of individuals responsible for committing criminal acts. This course also integrates broader societal contexts and implications and centers on the method that implies combining deductive and inductive profiling. Other subjects studied in this course include the analytic process of collecting and interpreting forensic evidence and the use of such evidence to develop offender characteristics. It approaches each crime as its universe of social relationships and behaviors and requires the examination and analysis of an actual homicide. An overview of the socio-legal aspects involving profiling and analysis of specific profiling issues in different types of serial crime are addressed.