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Profiling a Criminal Profiler

Profiling a Criminal Profiler. By: Miles Asafo-Adjei & Calvin Settles. What is Criminal Profiling?.

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Profiling a Criminal Profiler

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  1. Profiling a Criminal Profiler By: Miles Asafo-Adjei & Calvin Settles

  2. What is Criminal Profiling? • Criminal Profiling is the act of analyzing a crime scene and using the information found to identify the perpetrator. This process will not give you the exact name of the perpetrator, but it will help to narrow down suspects. • From information collected at a crime scene, a criminal profiler may be able to determine the perpetrator’s sex, age, ethnic background, and physical features.

  3. The Mind of a Criminal • A criminal profiler’s most important job is to get into the mind of the criminal. • Why did the criminal commit the crime. The background of the criminal. • What’s his/her M.O.? (method of operations)

  4. Education and Pay • Degree in Law, an advanced degree in a Behavioral or Forensic Science. • Criminal Profilers, on average, make $56,906 a year.

  5. The BTK Strangler

  6. The BTK Strangler • Dennis Lynn Rader, better known as the BTK strangler, committed ten murders in Sedgwick County in Wichita, Kansas between the years of 1974 and 1991. He was arrested in 2005 and sentenced to 10 consecutive life sentences in prison. • He wrote letters to the police in which he vividly described his murders.

  7. Interview with Dan G. Hodges • What previous positions have you held? • Has worked in the homicide department in several different states. Was an FBI Agent for thirty years. • What do you do from a day to day basis? • Goes to a crime scene when called. Works on previous cases or cold cases and recent ones

  8. Interview with Dan G. Hodges • What are some of the first things that you look for to find a criminal? • organized criminal and unorganized criminal.What’s their M.O.?

  9. The Alienist By: Caleb Carr • It centers on the alienist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, of mixed Hungarian-German origin, and his companions who attempt to solve a case of serial murder of young boy prostitutes in 1896 New York City, using fingerprinting, pathology and a sort of pre-profiling -- all advanced methods for that time.

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