Approaches to Psychological Profiling

For the Unit 4 Assignment, write a 4-5 page informative essay on the approaches to psychological profiling. In your essay, include the following.

Identify and describe four or more types of profiles. Different profiles might include the following; however, they do not need to be limited to the list below.

Types of Profiles

Offender profiling

Victim profiling

Equivocal death profiling

DNA profiling

Crime scene profiling

Geographical profiling

Paraphilia profiling

Describe how a thorough psychological profile can be created. For example, Offender Profiling is a collection of information by law enforcement agencies, which in turn is translated into a general description of a specific type of person that might commit a certain crime.

Combining Offender Profiling with Victim Profiling, personality and behavioral characteristics of the victim can be tied to a certain type of offender.

When you combine both strategies, you will produce a stronger profile.

Provide an example of each profile used and show how they can be combined, using inductive reasoning, to produce a psychological profile. Inductive reasoning will take multiple thoughts to combine a specific conclusion.