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Psychological Profiling of an Offender The purpose of the thesis is to describe and demystify the subject of offender profiling, also called criminal profiling or psychological profiling. Criminal profiling is one of key disciplines of forensic psychology which approximately in the last twenty years became recognized as a helpful investigative tool for resolving difficult criminal cases. The thesis is structured into four chapters, each one covering different aspect of criminal profiling. First chapter defines criminal profiling, its basic premises, formation and history, different approaches to profiling and possible uses of profiling. Second chapter focuses on practical use of criminal profiling. It covers criteria for using profiling in a particular criminal investigation, includes basic information about perpetrators and victims and shortly touches upon computer databases used in profiling. Third chapter covers the actual creation of profile of an unknown offender, from different sources suitable for gathering information to uncovering the offender's motivation and finally to the finished psychological profile. It also includes information about perpetrators of arson, rape and murder, as samples of serious offenses where offender profiling is often applied. Fourth chapter analyses the use of...

The thesis describes psychological profiling of an offender, which is a method used for investigating serious criminal acts. It was developer in the United States of America, particularly on the FBI ground, and is based on creating an image of probable unknown offender. The goal of the thesis is to provide readers with basic information about what is psychological profiling and how the process works. The paper is divided into five chapters. First, opening chapter is divided into three parts. In the first one, the reader can find information about the term psychological profiling, how it is defined and what is it for. Second part contains information about history of the method including some about the development in the Czech Republic. The third part describes offences suitable for profiling and those which are not. The second chapter is focused on creating the profile. First it describes the characteristic of the crime scene as basic information for the investigation, and then the typology of offenders is mentioned, directed at organized and disorganized typology. The end of this chapter is dedicated to the final look of the profile. In the third chapter some approaches to profiling are mentioned. These are the FBI model, named crime scene analysis, then profiling in Germany and Great Britain. This...

This diploma thesis deals with the criminalistic method of psychological profiling of an offender. Psychological profiling consists in analyzing the offender's behavior. This analysis is used to create an offender profile that contains offender's likely characteristics. Such a profile is intended to help investigators narrow down the range of suspects, or contribute to the success of investigations by refocusing the investigative strategy. The aim of this thesis is to present a balanced view of the method of psychological profiling and to critically evaluate the possibilities of its use for improving the quality of investigative practice. The thesis is divided into three chapters. The first chapter first defines this method, including basic theoretical approaches and bases. Furthermore, the historical development of profiling abroad and in the Czech Republic is introduced. Appropriate and inappropriate offenses for profiling are also mentioned. At the end of the first chapter, the most important methods or approaches to profiling are outlined. The second chapter is devoted to the creation of the psychological profile of an offender itself. First, the information that is necessary for the profile is mentioned, and the profile creation process is described in detail. Finally, the content and formal...

Cizojazyčné resumé This diploma thesis focuses on the method of psychological profiling of an offender. Psychological profiling, or simply profiling, is method aiming at an analysis of behavioural patterns of an offender which can be observed during crime investigation. The result of such analysis is a descriptive model of physical, psychological, and demographical features of the probable offender. Its purpose is to help the investigation of a crime mainly in the cases when the common criminological methods fail and there is little to no success shedding light on the crime - especially the criminal's identity. Profiling brings a new perspective and important information which could otherwise be overlooked by criminalists; a contribution that could lead to the crime being successfully solved. The thesis is divided into three chapters. The first chapter briefly explains the nature of psychological profiling and its place in the scientific field. Next, the work deals with terminological definition of psychological profiling and its gradual development abroad as well as in Czech Republic. In the last two subchapters, there is a list of crimes appropriate for the method of profiling and requirements for a profiling expert. The second chapter is divided into six subchapters concerned with the process of creating...

Psychological profiling of multiple murderers Abstract In my diploma thesis, I would like to summarize the basic knowledge of psychological profiling, to find out whether there are certain generally established standards for profiling experts that entitles them to participate in criminal investigations. I want to show that profiling is not just an intuitive procedure, I want to find out the role of psychological profiling in criminal investigations, whether it is important in this process for the profiling expert to know information about the victim of the crime and not only about the offender, to find out what specific information the psychological profile must provide to the investigator to be a useful tool to catch the offender, evaluate its possibilities and limits and outlined its use in the investigation of multiple murders, namely serial murders and last but not least, summarize the successful practical application of psychological profiling in practice. I divided the thesis into five parts. In the first part I deal with a summary of basic knowledge about the content of psychological profiling, a brief development of profiling, both abroad and in the Czech Republic and finally I would like to address the lack of legal anchoring of this concept in the Czech Republic. In the second part I deal with...

This study investigated whether watching crime related television shows affected accuracy of psychological profiles for a sexual homicide offender. The television shows in the study were a fiction drama with a profiling element, a fiction drama without a profiling element, a nonfiction show with a profiling element, a nonfiction show without a profiling element, and a fiction drama with no crime element at all. Participants were 290 college students who watched a television show and then profiled a sexual homicide offender. High self-exposure to crime related television shows and experimental exposure to profiling related television shows were associated with greater accuracy for profiling certain aspects of the offender and/or offense. In addition, gender interacted with crime show viewing for certain types of profile accuracy.

Psychological profiling of an offender Psychological profiling is a method of investigation developed in the 70's in the USA. This method is founded on research of behaviour of unknown offender with purpose to make conclusions about his personality. The purpose of my thesis is to find out how psychological profile can help during investigation. I would like to prove that psychological profiling belongs to investigation, that it can help during investigation and that it can bring a new view on case. The source of knowledge about the offender's behaviour and personality is the crime scene or text analyse. The thesis is composed of three chapters, each of them dealing with different aspects of psychological profiling. Chapter One is introductory and is subdivided into two parts. Part one describes history of psychological profiling. Part Two deals with theorethical background of psychological profiling. Chapter Two focuses on practical part of psychological profiling and consists of seven parts. This chapter explains the process of making a psychological profile, differences between mass-murder, serial-killer ad spree killer, characteristics of expert who creates a psychological profile, limits of psychological profile and differences between crimes committed by intimate people and those by unknown...

My diploma thesis deals with the behavioural analysis and perpetrators of serial, mass and sexually motivated murders issue. The behavioural analysis is built upon bases of different methods of criminal profiles formation - psychological profiling. Following the historical outset of the criminal profile, the method of the behavioural analysis and its particular components are introduced and discussed. The components are described through optic of the most commonly used typologies, e.g. perpetrators typologies, scenes of delict, victims and murders. Hereafter I pursue issue of criminal profiling utilization in practise, particularly perpetrator profile creation, crime linking and threat assessment. The last part dedicated to the behavioural analysis consists of behavioural analysis historical development in the Czech Republic and reflection of potential future development of this issue. The second part of my diploma thesis is focused on serial murder and serial perpetrator. The definition of multiple murder and differentiation from its individual types is given. The following part comprises of introduction of the most common myths and stereotypes ingrained in the society and through statistics their creation and falseness is explained. The phenomenon of the hypothetical murderer is reached through...