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Criminal Personality Profiling and Crime Scene Assessment

A Contemporary Investigative Tool to Assist Law Enforcement Public Safety

JOSEPH A. DAVIS

Center for Applied Forensic-Behavioral Sciences, San Diego, CA

Within the justice system, there appears to be a growing demand for experts in the field of behavioral science who can help law enforcement solve bizarre and unusual cases. There are multiple factors and antecedent events that are involved in a violent crime. These factors and events include the intent, the plan, the type of criminal, the type of victim, the crime scene, and the premortem and postmortem interval. The manner in which a violent crime is performed expresses the psychological pattern, makeup, and expression of the individual performing it. Criminal investigative analysis, or criminal personality profiling, examines and identifies the subtle habits, psychological traits, and personality variables associated with criminal activity. These variables and traits are used to develop personality and behavioral descriptors of an offender who often commits heinous crimes such as serial homicide, sex crimes leading to criminal homicide, arson, bombings, ritualistic crimes that include torture, child abduction, kidnapping, child molestation, and bank robbery.

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, Vol. 15, No. 3, 291-301 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/1043986299015003006
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