The experience of psychological profiling in criminal investigations.
详细信息
- 作者：Frie ; Valerie M.
- 学历：Doctor
- 年：2012
- 导师：Kostere,Kim,eadvisor
- 毕业院校：Capella University
- Department：Harold Abel School of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
- ISBN：9781267673725
- CBH：3541352
- Country：USA
- 语种：English
- FileSize：3368170
- Pages：186
文摘
Profiling is known by many names and several different methods,but it remains teetering somewhere between an art and a science. Law enforcement takes a more intuitive approach while psychologists approach profiling form a clinical perspective. This qualitative case study identifies a gap in the current literature by examining the experiences of law enforcement officers and profilers with psychological profiles in criminal investigations. Robert Stake's collective case study model was utilized to investigate the experiences of local law enforcement officers,federal agents,and profilers with psychological profiling through in-depth interviews. Eleven themes emerged from a within-case analysis for each group as well as a cross-case analysis of all the participants: (a) based on the experiences of the profilers,the more behavior,the better the profile,(b) most of the BAU violent cases come from local law enforcement,(c) the profilers' experiences of creating psychological profiles are positive,(d) the psychological profiles provided the investigation with focus,(e) even if the case was not solved,the officers felt they could use what they learned in future cases,(f) the officers interviewed for this study have not made in any arrests in the cases,(g) all three federal agent participants had multiple encounters/experiences with psychological profiles,(h) the profiles provided useful information,(i) psychological profiles provide useful information in criminal investigations,(j) a profile can identify unknown offender characteristics,and (k) there is not an adversarial relationship between law enforcement and profilers. The research indicated that profiling is a useful tool in criminal investigations. The study concluded that the experiences of the participants were mostly positive and almost all of the participants said they would work with each respective group in future cases involving the use of psychological profiling.