Criminal Profiling: Principles and Practices
Perfis Criminais: Princípios e Práticas
Curse code:9219316
Ana Cristina Sabino Pestana Neves
Learning outcomes of the curricular unit:
The criminal profiling is a forensic tool that is intended to help police investigators to accurately predict and profile the characteristics of criminal subjects or offenders of a violent crime. The aim of this curricular unit is to allow: Know the basics of criminal profiling and its origins; understand the concept and those contributions recognize criminal behavior patterns and motive; outline and construct a criminal profile based on scientific assessments and assumptions. The students must be able to define a criminal profiler, describe the criminal profiling process, describe profiling decision process models, recognize the most important studies about validity and accuracy of a criminal profile and identify the profile of different violent criminal contexts.
Syllabus:
- The concept of forensic criminal profile.
- Historical evolution of the concept of forensic profile.
- The building process of forensic criminal profile.
- Technical approaches to criminal forensics profile.
- Validity of forensic criminal profile.
- Studies of validity and accuracy of criminal forensics profile.
- Criminal profiles associated with violent crime: sex crimes, homicide, arson, robbery with firearm.
Suggested Bibliography:
- Canter D (2006) Psychology of offender profiling, In R. Keppel, Offender profiling (pp. 49-58), Mason: Thomson
- Farrington D (2007) Criminal Profiling: Principles and Practice, Totowa: Humana Press, International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 51(4), 486-487
- Holmes R & Holmes S (1996) Profiling violent crimes: An investigative tool, Thousand Oaks: Sage
- Soeiro C (2009) Os perfis criminais: contornos e aplicabilidade de uma técnica forense, Ousar Integrar - revista de Reinserção Social e Prova, nº4, pp.1-12
- Kocsis RN (2006) Criminal profiling: Principles and practice, Totowa: Humana Press
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