Course Info
Code IND20-101
Duration 5 Days
Format Classroom
Course Summary
Profiling is a method that uses data analysis to determine the patterns and motives of past criminals in order to predict future behaviours and prevent potential crimes. These profiles require the profiler to use sociological and psychological evidence to create an accurate background on each individual which could potentially be used in a legal case.
To develop an effective profile that’s useful for future predictions and preventative action, it’s important to use reliable data and trending analysis. It also requires an innovative and outside-the-box mindset to really understand how actions affect the perpetrator and to predict their future behaviours.
Understanding previous cases and criminal behaviour can also help predict personality and behavioural changes in current criminals and assist in legal battles in order to reduce the overall crime rate in focus areas.
To fully understand the intricacies of criminal profiling, it’s important to look into the functions and tools that are involved in solving crimes and to uncover the types of evidence and data that could be used as part of a legal battle to come to the correct conclusion and make positive societal changes.
- To understand the tools and tactics used in criminal profiling.
- To develop data and evidence matrices to create an accurate picture.
- To utilise past criminal behavioural data to predict trending crimes.
- To create a crime database based on area and societal impacts.
- To outline risk factors regarding specific areas and types of crimes.
- To describe different theories based on the causes of crime and relate them to real-world situations.
- To develop a wide range of personality profiles to evolve your profiling regime for the future.
- To explore Marxist and realist views of the different types of crime.
- To understand how data can help in legal battles and help to change the future of crime fighting.
This course is designed for anyone responsible for developing a psychological profile in preparation for area crime statistics or to fight a legal case. It would be most beneficial for:
- Police Officers
- Custody Co-ordinators
- Solicitors
- Research Officers
- Data Analysts
- Profile Writers
- HR Professionals
- Case Workers
- Prison Officers
- Lawyers
- Probation Officers
This course uses a variety of adult learning techniques to aid full understanding and comprehension. Participants will review real-world profiles and conduct group discussions on personality similarities within specific profiles. They will view videos on real court cases to support the profiling models that they’ve learned and understand how this knowledge could be utilised in a legal case.
In teams, they will review data based on crime statistics in specific areas and develop case studies to determine a root cause. Procedures and process changes can then be suggested in order to make societal changes to combat crime in these areas. Finally, participants will create a group roadmap presentation which shows how the data and profiling techniques learned could create positive societal change using legal support.
Course Content & Outline
- The causes of crime.
- Introduction to accurate profiling.
- Why is profiling important in a legal battle?
- Classical, positivist and Chicago theories.
- Understanding social structures.
- Symbolic interactionism and individual theories.
- Biosocial theories and their effects.
- The different types of crime and how area statistics factor in.
- Understanding social standing and crime rates.
- Violent crime classifications.
- Using historic crimes to predict today’s crime trends.
- Misdemeanours and felonies.
- Property and statutory crimes.
- Crime scene evidence and data.
- Using toxicology and ballistics reporting.
- How to differentiate accurate data from hearsay.
- Fingerprinting and more modern forensics.
- Toxicology reporting and how this has a bearing on the crime rate.
- Understanding how successful profiling can benefit society.
- Utilising profiles as evidence throughout the legal journey.
- Examination and classification of evidence.
- The benefits of reconstruction.
- Potential consequences.
- Lawyers and their options based on a successful profile match.
- Inaccurate profiling and the effects.
- Victim rights and facilitation.
- Developing your profile model.
- Measuring profile success and making improvements.
- Reassessing the data to predict future trends.
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