FP 630 Individual Profiling and Case Analysis

3 Credits

This course will focus on the strengths and limitations of psychological profiling in criminal investigations. It will provide a broad overview of criminal profiling, exploring its history, psychological underpinnings, and practical applications.The course will examine major theories of criminality, crime scene investigation and analysis, forensic science, and geographic profiling. Practical application of theory and skills to actual cases will stress students’ abilities to reason logically and deductively, to make connections between seemingly disparate facts, and to draw evidence-based conclusions.