Crime Scene Profiling

Professional Training Courses

 

Run as part of the John Jay College

Office of Continuing and Professional Studies

 

Courses

Profiling Offender Characteristics from Crime Scene Behaviors

Evaluating a Profiling Report

Linking Serial Homicide

Geographic Profiling

 

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Further Information

 

Profiling Offender Characteristics from Crime Scene Behaviors

Evaluating a Profiling Report

Linking Serial Homicide

Geographical Profiling

 

Offender Profiling and Crime Scene Analysis

 

Profiling is a crime analysis technique that aims to aid investigators generate new leads, and narrow down a pool of suspects to identify the most likely offender.

 

 

 

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Offender Profiling, and the Report

 

A commissioned crime scene analysis report aims to provide information to aid investigators generate new leads, link potential series based on behavioral crime scene evidence, and narrow down a pool of suspects to identify the most likely offender.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Offender Profiling, and Linking Serial Offenses

 

Profiling is a crime analysis technique that aims to aid investigators generate new leads, link potential series based on behavioral crime scene evidence, and narrow down a pool of suspects to identify the most likely offender.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Geographical Profiling

 

Geographical Offender Profiling is a potent investigative tool that can be used by police investigators or law enforcement analysts to support intelligence and investigations. Using the set of key GP principles and research findings that have been articulated over the last decade, in conjunction with a specialist software tool, investigators and law enforcement analysts can generate new leads, link potential series, identify TICs and narrow down a pool of suspects to identify the most likely home location of the offender.

 

 

The Workshop

 

This workshop will outline the latest scientific research on how specific patterns in an offender’s behavior at a homicide crime scene can be reliably used to identify the characteristics of the offender.

 

The workshop will benefit a wide range of criminal justice related agencies, in particular homicide and violent crime investigators, crime analysts, prosecutors, and psychologists.

 

 

The Workshop

 

This workshop will outline the latest scientific thinking on the reliability of information given in profiling reports, and will outline guidelines how such reports may be evaluated in order to assess their value in investigations.

 

The workshop will benefit a wide range of criminal justice related agencies, in particular homicide and violent crime investigators, crime analysts, prosecutors, and psychologists.

 

 

The Workshop

 

This workshop will outline the latest scientific research on how specific patterns in an offender’s behavior at a homicide crime scene can be reliably used to identify a series, and identify the most likely type of offender.

 

The workshop will benefit a wide range of criminal justice related agencies, in particular homicide and violent crime investigators, crime analysts, prosecutors, and psychologists.

 

 

The Workshop

 

This workshop will outline the latest scientific thinking on how to apply geographical profiling to volume crime, one-off offences, and serial crime.

 

 

 

The workshop will benefit a wide range of criminal justice related agencies, in particular homicide and violent crime investigators, crime analysts, prosecutors, and psychologists.

 

 

Training will include

 

An introduction into the psychological principles of crime scene profiling

 

Understanding behavioral evidence as an investigative forensic tool

 

Identifying the most reliable features to focus on in a crime scene

 

The psychology of offender behavioral patterns and victim targeting

 

Determining offender characteristics from crime scene evidence

 

 

Training will include

 

An introduction into using psychological and behavioral evidence as an investigative forensic tool

 

Outlining scientific research on the validity of profiling.

 

Outlining the scientific evidence on the reliability of offender profiling reports.

 

Guidelines on how to commission and assess a report, and use it in an investigation.

 

 

 

Training will include

 

An introduction into the psychological principles of crime scene profiling

 

Understanding behavioral evidence as an investigative forensic tool

 

Using Modus Operandi vs. the Signature for linking

 

Understanding sub-types of serial offenders based on victim target and crime scene behavior.

 

 

 

 

Training will include

 

An introduction into the psychological principles of geographical profiling

 

Understanding geographical evidence as an investigative forensic tool

 

Understanding sub-types of serial offenders based on geographical travel patterns

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Instructor

 

C. Gabrielle Salfati, PhD

John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York

 

 

 

 

 

 

Instructor

 

C. Gabrielle Salfati, PhD

John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York

 

 

 

 

 

 

Instructor

 

C. Gabrielle Salfati, PhD

John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York

 

 

 

 

 

 

Instructors

 

David Canter, PhD

Centre for Investigative Psychology, University of Liverpool, UK

 

Donna Youngs, PhD

Centre for Investigative Psychology, University of Liverpool, UK

 

 

 

Special note

 

Although this course can be taken on its own, to gain the full benefit it is highly recommended to first take Profiling Offender Characteristics from Crime Scene Behaviors.

 

Please see registration website for discounts when booking several courses together.

 

Special note

 

Although this course can be taken on its own, to gain the full benefit it is highly recommended to first take Profiling Offender Characteristics from Crime Scene Behaviors.

 

Please see registration website for discounts when booking several courses together.

 

 

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