Study criminal profiling to understand criminal behaviour in order to investigate and profile offenders.
- Self-paced online course | Start anytime | No deadlines or cut off date for the end of the course.
- Learn about profiling methods | offender characteristics | violent crimes | sexual crimes etc.
- 10 lessons + 10 assignments | Written questions | Practical exercises | Self-assessment tests.
- Expert feedback from experienced tutors with decades of experience.
Course Structure
There are ten lessons in this course. At the end of each lesson, there is an assignment to submit to your tutor for marking and feedback. You can also contact your tutor with any questions throughout the course.
The lessons cover -
- Introduction to Criminal Profiling
- Profiling Methods
- Crime Scene Analysis
- Offender Characteristics
- Victimology
- Offender Profiling – Sexual Crimes
- Offender Profiling – Violent Crimes
- Offender Profiling – White Collar Crimes
- Offender Profiling – Victimless Crimes, Consensual Crimes and Other Crimes
- Profiling in Action
Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the
school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any
relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.
Aims
- Describe the nature and scope of criminal profiling.
- Explain different methods used for criminal profiling.
- Describe how a crime scene may be analysed.
- Describe criminal offender characteristics.
- Describe different types of victims.
- Describe the common profiles of sex crime offenders and victim profiles.
- Describe the common profiles of violent crime offenders.
- Describe common profiles of white-collar crime offenders.
- Apply criminal profiling to victimless crimes, consensual crimes, and other crimes.
- Discuss the application of criminal profiling, and its importance to society.
Who will find studying criminal profiling useful?
This course is useful for anyone interested in, or involved in -
- Law enforcement
- Criminal investigations
- Legal support
- Victim support
- Psychology
- Criminal behaviour generally
- Writers
- Journalists
- Teachers
- Prison officers
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