CRJ 346 - Profiling and Threat Assessment

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Critical examination of criminal profiling including crime scene profiling (inductive and deductive). psychological profiling, and offender profiling. Discusses ethnic, racial. and behavioral profiling, equivocal death analysis and the geographical profiling of serial killers and rapists. Reviews threat assessment models as applied to school shooters, stalking behavior and terrorists with emphasis on the empirical validity of profiling and threat assessment intelligence analysis.
Prerequisite(s): CRJ 100 or SOC 100 or instructor permission.