Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling

PSY

313

Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling

This course deals with Investigative Psychology, which aims to highlight how we may apply general areas of psychology to the specific applied focus of criminal investigations. A key focus will be on offender profiling, and the main psychological principles upon which offender profiling is based will be outlined, with a specific focus on the three key areas of Investigative Psychology: information gathering, behavioral analysis, and analysis, and decision making applied to the real world context. The course will further build on this by focusing on methodological questions relating to classifying crime scene behaviors, linking behavioral types to offender characteristics, and linking serial offenses, and look at profiling in the practical context of the investigative and legal system.

Fall, Spring

Undergraduate

Yes