Criminal Profiling SkillSet includes these Awards:
1. Statement of Attainment -Criminal Profiling
2. Certificate of Completion - Behaviour Profiling
Plus these Complementary Texts
- How To Solve Problems
- Psychological Profiling
- Psychology Dictionary
- The Brain & Behaviour
Course Outline for Criminal Porfiling 100-hour short course
The course has ten lessons -
- Introduction to Criminal Profiling
- Profiling Methods
- Crime Scene Analysis
- Offender Characteristics
- Victimology
- Offender Profiling – Sexual Crimes
- Offender Profiling – Violent Crimes
- Offender Profiling – White Collar Crimes
- Offender Profiling – Victimless Crimes, Consensual Crimes and Other Crimes
- Profiling in Action
Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading. There's an optional exam at the end of the 100-hours. If you choose to sit the exam and pass, you are awarded a Statement of Attainment. If you choose not to sit the exam, you can request a Letter of Completion when you have finished all your assignments.
Aims
Describe the nature and scope of criminal profiling.
Explain different methods used for criminal profiling.
Describe how a crime scene may be analysed.
Describe criminal offender characteristics.
Describe different types of victims.
Describe the common profiles of sex crime offenders and victim profiles.
Describe the common profiles of violent crime offenders.
Describe common profiles of white-collar crime offenders.
Apply criminal profiling to victimless crimes, consensual crimes, and other crimes.
Discuss the application of criminal profiling, and its importance to society.
