CJ 245 : CRIMINAL PROFILING

Understanding what motivates individuals to offend is key to finding, trying, and convicting offenders. Serial offenders are individuals who commit multiple crimes, thus inflicting harm on society multiple times. This course will discuss actual serial offenders and the cases associated with them in an examination of the use of linkage analysis associated with the crimes. Students will learn how criminal profiles are developed and why this is process is important within the criminal justice system.