Offender Profiling Exam Notes

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Weekly summary of all the course content in preparation for the exam. Topic List Module One: Profiling Approaches Week One – Offender Profiling: An Overview and its Evolution Week Two – Law Enforcement: FBI’s Criminal Investigative Analysis (CIA) Week Three – Forensic Science: Behavioural Evidence Analysis (BEA) Week Four – Academic Psychology: Investigative Psychology (IP) Week Five – Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry: a) Crime Action Profiling (CAP) Week Six – Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry: b) Diagnostic Evaluations (DE) Module Two: Profiling Processes Week Seven – Crime Reconstruction Week Eight – Modus Operandi (MO), Signature and Linkage Analysis Week Nine – Victimology Week Ten – Offender Characteristics Module Three – Profiling Products Week Eleven – Geographic Profiling and Opportunity Theories Week Twelve – Accuracy, Ethics & the Future of Profiling