EQ: What is the most important factor in an unidentified subject's psychological profile?
Answer 1: Using typology based off the evidence to classify behaviors and background characteristics.
Answer 2: Using victimology as a way to gain insight to the offender's motives in order to narrow down suspects within an investigation.
Answer 3: Studying all the evidence at face value and drawing conclusions from that is very important when creating a profile.
Best Answer: Answer 1-Using typology based off the evidence to classify behaviors and background characteristics.
This is my best answer because it is the technique that most often provides the largest contribution to the profile. Also, throughout the creation and use of psychological profiling it is seen as the first strategy made and the first one applied. Typology also adds a lot to the ability to identify the unsub because it does not necessarily need to be something that requires specific training.
(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?
I did a lot of research on each answer itself and their uses. Once I felt comfortable enough with the answers and what they did within the cases I began to find crime scenes and offenders that had been profiled so i could attempt to analyze the case and see what I got. While doing this it occurred to me that although it was all based of the evidence, and the victim played an important role, the largest part of the unidentified subjects profile was determined from the typology created.
(3) What problems did you face? How did you resolve them?
The problems i faced was of ten finding good credible resource. Often it would be too old or simply about the creation of profiling. It was difficult to find pieces of it in action and i would frequently have to learn the topic and later find out how it is applied. I also has some difficulties with my mentor because of the constant shifts of schedule and availability.
(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?
1:The first source that really assisted me in my project was Mind Hunter by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker. This book was great because it told the story of, John Douglas, one of the creators of profiling and took you throughout the creations of the process and how it developed. I really enjoyed this because it was a great basis for the rest of my project.
2:The next source that was really useful was one I found online that focused of crime scene profiling. This article gave me a a fundamental idea for all the answers I used in the end. It talked about profiling and crime scene profiling which basically explained all the things you could gather from analyzing the evidence. the Source Crime Scene Profiling assisted and asserted all my answers and helped me find new focuses within my answers to research.
