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Criminal Profiling
Jennifer Green Walden University CRJS – 3010 - 1
Brent Paterline
October 15, 2022
Historical Influences in Profiling

2. 1 CRIMINAL PROFILING IS CRUCIAL WHEN LOOKING
INTO CRIME SCENES. CRIMINAL
PROFILING HAS BEEN EVOLVING MORE AND MORE
OVER TIME. CRIMINAL PROFILING IN
THE MODERN ERA IS MORE SCIENCE THAN ART. MOST
MODERN PROFILING
TECHNIQUES ARE BASED ON SCIENCE. THEY DIFFER
SIGNIFICANTLY FROM THE WAYS IN
WHICH PEOPLE ARE CURRENTLY PROFILED. HOWEVER,
THE EVOLUTION OF THE
PRESENT-DAY PROFILING METHODS WAS IMPACTED BY
THE PAST PROFILING
PRACTICES. 2 ONE OF THE CURRENT PROFILING
TECHNIQUES, FOR INSTANCE, IS THE
GATHERING OF MEDICAL EVIDENCE. 1 IN THIS, A
MEDICAL EXPERT IS HIRED TO
IDENTIFY THE OFFENDER'S PSYCHOLOGICAL AND
BEHAVIORAL TRAITS (FRANCESE,
2019). TRADITIONAL PROFILING METHODS INCLUDED
BEHAVIORAL PROFILING. IT IS
THE ONE THAT HAD AN IMPACT ON THE PRACTICE OF
ACQUIRING CLINICAL EVIDENCE
PROFILING. FURTHERMORE, THE CURRENT METHODS
OF PROFILING ARE GUIDED BY

3. THE CRITERIA FOR HISTORICAL PROFILING. Consider the
idea that criminals may possess certain
physical traits. 2 THESE TRAITS ARE USED TO
CATEGORIZE CRIMINALS INTO DIFFERENT
GROUPS (CHIFFLET, 2015). 1 THESE TRAITS CAN BE
USED BY THE CRIMINAL PROFILER
TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN MASS MURDERERS AND
SERIAL KILLERS. 2 IN ORDER TO
IDENTIFY CRIMINAL PROPENSITIES, HISTORICAL
PROFILING INCLUDED ASSESSMENTS
OF PERSONALITY AND MENTAL CAPACITY. 1 WITH THE
EXCEPTION OF APPLYING
SCIENTIFIC TECHNIQUES, THE ASSESSMENT IS CARRIED
OUT IN ACCORDANCE WITH
EXISTING PROFILING STANDARDS.
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2 ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF PROFILERS
CRIMINAL PROFILERS PLAY A CRITICAL ROLE IN
CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS. THEY
HELP LAW ENFORCEMENT PROFESSIONALS TO
APPREHEND OFFENDERS. THE CRIMINAL
PROFILES THEY DEVELOP MAKE ARRESTING THE
CRIMINALS EASIER. IN DOING THIS,
CRIMINAL PROFILER PERFORMS MANY ROLES AND
RESPONSIBILITIES. FIRST, THEY
REVIEW THE EVIDENCE LYING AT THE CRIME SCENES.
THEY REVIEW IT TO GET MANY
DETAILS ABOUT THE CRIME. THIS ALSO HELPS TO
IDENTIFY THE CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR
OF THE CRIMINALS (FRANCESE, 2019). SECONDLY, THEY
FIND AS MUCH INFORMATION
AS THEY CAN ABOUT SUSPECTS. THEY USE THIS
INFORMATION TO DEVELOP A CRIMINAL
PROFILE. THIRDLY, CRIMINAL PROFILERS STUDY THE
CRIME SCENE TO DETERMINE
THE BEHAVIOR PATTERNS OF THE OFFENDERS

5. (HOLMES & HOLMES 2009).
CONSEQUENTLY, THEY WRITE THE REPORT, COMPILE
DATA AND MAKE CONCLUSIONS
THAT THEY PROVIDE IN COURTS AS TESTIMONY. LAST
BUT NOT LEAST, THESE
PROFESSIONALS ADVISE THE LAW ENFORCEMENT
PROFESSIONALS ON THE
TECHNIQUES THEY SHOULD USE TO PURSUE
CRIMINALS.
DETECTION AND APPREHENSION OF SERIAL AND MASS
MURDERERS
Through their roles, goals, and responsibilities, criminal
profilers help in the detection and apprehension of
criminals. 2 HOWEVER, HOW THEY DO THIS MIGHT AID
THE APPREHENSION OF SERIAL
KILLERS AND MASS MURDERERS. IF THEY DEVELOP
VAGUE CRIMINAL PROFILES FOR
SERIAL KILLERS AND MASS MURDERS, IT WILL BE
HARD TO MAKE APPREHENSION.
WITH SUCH A PROFILE, LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS
CANNOT EASILY NARROW DOWN
THE LIST OF SUSPECTS TO IDENTIFY THE SUSPECT WHO
COMMITTED THE MASS
MURDER OR A SERIES OF MURDERS (HOLMES &

6. HOLMES 2009). MOREOVER, THEIR
CREATION OF A PROFILE WITH SCANT INFORMATION
CAN SLOW THE APPREHENSION OF
SERIAL KILLERS AND MASS MURDERS. FOR EXAMPLE,
IF THE PROFILE USES
PSYCHOLOGICAL DESCRIPTIONS ONLY WITHOUT
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTIONS LIKE
HEIGHT, IT MAY BE DIFFICULT FOR THE POLICE TO
APPREHEND THE SUSPECT.
HOWEVER, DEVELOPING A DETAILED PROFILE WITH
SPECIFIC INFORMATION WILL AID
THE APPREHENSION OF THESE CRIMINALS. SUCH A
PROFILE CONSISTS OF BEHAVIORAL,
PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND PHYSICAL INFORMATION ABOUT
THE CRIMINALS (FRANCESE,
2019). PROFILERS WHO DO IN-DEPTH RESEARCH ABOUT
SERIAL CRIMINALS AND MASS
MURDERERS WILL BE ABLE TO GIVE THIS
INFORMATION IN A MORE DETAILED WAY.
THE MORE THE INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE, THE
HIGHER THE CHANCES OF
DETECTING THE SUSPECTS AND APPREHENDING THEM.
References

7. Chifflet, P. (2015). 2 QUESTIONING THE VALIDITY OF
CRIMINAL PROFILING: AN EVIDENCE-
BASED APPROACH. AUSTRALIAN & NEW ZEALAND
JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY, 48(2),
238–255. HTTPS://DOI.ORG/10.1177/0004865814530732
HOLMES, R. 1 M., & HOLMES, S. T.
(2009). 3 PROFILING VIOLENT CRIMES: AN
INVESTIGATIVE TOOL. Sage Publications.
3 THOUSAND OAKS, CA: 1 SAGE PUBLICATIONS,
INC.FRANCESE, S. (2019). 2 CRIMINAL
PROFILING THROUGH MALDI MS BASED TECHNOLOGIES
- BREAKING BARRIERS
Week 1 Test for Understanding
This 10-question, objective Test for Understanding will assess
how well you understand and can apply the information in this
week's Learning Resources.
To prepare for the Test for Understanding:
Review the assigned Learning Resources.
About the Test for Understanding:
PLEASE HIGHLIGHT THE CORRECT ANSWER IN RED AND
IF YOU GO BACK TO ALL THE READING, I HAVE POSTED
FOR WEEK 1 IN THE LAST 2 ASSIGNMENT YOU SHOULD
BE ABLE TO FIND THESE ANSWERS
QUESTION 1

8. As a result of a sexual fantasy, a man kills a series of women
over a period of time to demonstrate his control over the
victims. What is most likely the motivating reason for this
murder?
Terror
Loyalty
Revenge
Power
QUESTION 2
The biggest difference between serial murderers and mass
murderers is:
The number of victims
The lapse in time in between killings
The motivation for the killings
The selection of the victims

9. QUESTION 3
Suppose a criminal profiler is assisting law enforcement in the
interrogation of potential suspects. This would most likely be an
example of which of the three major goals of criminal profilers?
To provide the criminal justice system with a social and
psychological assessment of the offender
To provide the criminal justice system with a psychological
evaluation of the belongings found in the possession of the
offender
To provide interviewing suggestions and strategies
To provide the criminal justice system with a hypothesis about
where the potential serial murderer lives

10. QUESTION 4
A man kills seven people at his place of employment and then
takes his own life. He would be considered a ___________.
mass murderer
serial murderer
spree murderer
suicide murderer
QUESTION 5
Typologies of mass and serial murderers are useful in
constructing a profile of a murderer. In general, one of the most
important characteristics of a crime scene in determining the

11. type of murderer is __________.
the time of the murder
the victims' characteristics
the weapons used in the killing
the location of the bodies
QUESTION 6
The serial killer Dennis Rader, known as the BTK Strangler,
was unique among serial killers because:
He killed mostly women.
He killed some of the victims in their homes.
He killed victims near his place of residence.

12. Some of his killings were separated by long periods of time.
QUESTION 7
Inductive reasoning and deductive reasoning are the two major
ways criminal profilers construct profiles of potential suspects.
With ______________ logic, a criminal profiler conducts a
thorough analysis of a crime scene and then based on the
analysis, constructs an image of the unknown murderer.
inductive
deductive
inductive and deductive
deducible

13. QUESTION 8
Proponents of criminal profiling recognize that profiling is part
art, but they also recognize that it is grounded in science. Which
of the following statements reveals the science aspect of
criminal profiling?
Criminal profilers use their intuition to create profiles.
Criminal profilers rely on their hunches to create profiles.
Criminal profilers rely on empirical research from criminology,
sociology, and psychiatry to create profiles.
Criminal profilers rely on guesswork to create profiles.

14. QUESTION 9
Advocates of criminal profiling recognize that criminal
profiling is appropriate for which of the following types of
crimes?
Sexual homicide
Child molestation
Armed robbery
Burglary

15. QUESTION 10
Using typologies is at times difficult because not all serial and
mass murderers fall neatly into one typology or another.
Assume you have to classify the Virginia Tech killer into one
particular type of mass murderer. All that you know about the
killer is that he had a stockpile of weapons at his disposal. What
type of mass murderer is the Virginia Tech killer?
The family annihilator
The disgruntled employee
The disciple
The pseudocommando
PROFESSOR REPLY
PLEASE ANSWER THE PROFESSOR QUESTION BELOW
BASED OFF OF YOUR WEEK 1 DISCUSSION THAT’S
BELOW
Serial Killer and Mass Murderer
A serial killer entails a person who assassinates three or more
individuals within a period exceeding a month, with resting
time between murders. In this case, the murders are separate
events that result from a psychological pleasure or thrill
(Holmes & Holmes, 2009). Serial killers lack guilt and empathy,
becoming egocentric individuals. The killers remain
psychologically motivated and organized to commit murder.
Serial killers employ a sanity mask to appear charming and
ordinary while hiding their actual psychopathic tendencies. For
instance, Ted Bundy was an appealing serial killer who
methodically planned out murder (Stone, 2019). He would fake
injuries to seem harmless to victims. He committed about thirty
murders between 1974 and 1978 before his capture.
Mass murderers slay many people, usually at the same time,

16. within a single location. For instance, James Holmes attacked
and shot at a Colorado movie theater (Allely, 2020). As a result,
he injured fifty-eight people and twelve individuals, making
him a mass murderer. A psychiatry professor from Columbia
argues that mass murderers comprise dissatisfied people with
few friends and poor social skills. Generally, mass murderers’
motives are less apparent compared to serial killers. Professor
Stone claims that males facilitate most mass murder cases, with
most of them lacking clinical psychotic. Instead of remaining a
sociopath like serial killers, mass murderers are distrustful
persons with acute social and behavioral syndromes.
Comparable to serial assassins, mass murderers exhibit
psychopathic inclinations, including being uncompassionate,
cruel, and manipulative. Nevertheless, most mass assassins are
loners or social nonconformists whose actions result from
triggers by some overpowering events.
Generally, mass murderers and serial killers often demonstrate
similar manipulation characteristics and lack of empathy.
Factors that distinguish the two involve the sum of murders as
well as timing. Mass murderers assassinate people in a single
time frame and location. On the other hand, serial killers often
murder in different places and over a long period.
References
Allely, C. S. (2020). The contributory role of psychopathology
and inhibitory control in the case of mass shooter James
Holmes. Aggression and violent behavior, 51, 101382.
Holmes, R. M., & Holmes, S. T. (2009). Profiling violent
crimes: An investigative tool (4th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA:
Sage Publications, Inc.
Stone, M. H. (2019). The place of psychopathy along the
spectrum of negative personality types. In Psychoanalysts,
psychologists and psychiatrists discuss psychopathy and human
evil (pp. 82-105). Routledge.

17. PROFESSOR REPLY QUESTION
GO BACK TO WK1 ALL ATTACHED READING TO
ANSWER BACK TO THIS QUESTION
In Chapter 1 of your textbook the author lists several crimes
that are most suitable for the profiling. What are some of these
crimes?
STUDENT REPLIES
BELOW IS THE INSTUCTIONS ON HOW THE PROFESSOR
WANTS THE STUDENT REPLIES ANSWERED BACK TO
PLEASE FOLLOW THESE DIRECTIONS DOWN BELOW.
AND IN YOUR STUDENT REPLIES DO NOT USE THE
WORDI AGREE OR NICE JOBTHE PROFESSOR DON’T
WANT TO SEE THOSE WORDS IN THE STUDENT REPLIES.
ALSO, BOTH STUDENT REPLIES NEED TO BE 250 OR
MORE WORD COUNT USING TEXTBOOK AND OUTSIDE
REFERENCES REMEMBER YOU CAN PULL REFERENCES
FROM THE ATTACHED READING THAT I PREVOUSLY
ATTACHED FOR YOU THIS WEEK. THANK YOU AND LET
ME KNOW IF YOU NEED ANYMORE CLARIFICATION ON
THIS ASSIGNMENT…...
MAKE SURE YOU PUT THE NAME WITH EACH STUDENT
SO I WILL KNOW WHICH ONE GOES WITH WHO….
Respond to at least one of your colleagues' postings. Respond in
one or more of the following ways:
Ask 1 probing question.
Share an insight from having read your colleague's posting.
Offer and support an opinion.
Validate an idea with your own experience.
Make a suggestion.

18. Expand on your colleague's posting.
STUDENT REPLY #1Taylor Carrion
Danny Benson was a 15-year-old 4-foot-9 male attending
George Warshaw High School he was pretty much to himself
and shy and quiet. He spent most of his time in the library with
his head in books. He did not really have many friends except
for one kid named Tony Danielson. Due to him being a loner
and to some people a nerd and small for his age he would get
bullied and harassed by multiple classmates. He tried to get help
on multiple occasions and the school was not much help their
bullying protocols were not as good or strict. So, one day he
figured he would plan to shoot up the school to get revenge on
the classmates and staff who did not help him in his time of
need and to show them he is not to be messed with or that he
has the power. So, on Friday afternoon is when he got his
revenge, he walked into school somehow getting by their blind
spots so no one could see what happened and started to shoot
the classmates while at lunch and then headed to the office and
started to shoot the staff as well. He killed 15 and injured 26
people and then finally became surrounded by the police after
trying to escape even after trying to shoot at the police as well
he gave and killed himself as he already knows that was the best
thing that he could do now as he was surrounded. Danny would
be considered a mass murderer because he killed more than 3
people and went on a killing spree at that specific time in his
school. He did this out of revenge for being bullied and
harassed by classmates on multiple occasions. There were no
patterns and no repeated shootings it was just one mass killing.
He was a revenge-oriented mass killer under a subgroup of
school shooters. In the PDF “Mass Murderer” (n.d.), “Bullying
and teasing is most likely the main motivation behind the
student’s violence. He was to get back at others who teased and
bullied him.” It was also stated, “This was Danny’s case where
he plotted his revenge based on the teasing and bullying of his

19. former classmates and the staff that did not help as much.
Next, Vlad Kauffer was a middle-aged Caucasian man in his
late 40’s an intelligent guy who worked in finance at a high-end
bank. From the start of his childhood specifically with his mom
who was not around much but open his eyes to a very sexual life
and would be out late nights with random strangers due to her
being a prostitute causing Vlad to take care of himself at an
incredibly early age and caused anger against his mom and
woman who reminded him of his mom. When she was around,
she was an alcoholic and was very domineering. Vlad would
stalk young women prostitutes convince them in his car take
them back to his place torture, rape, and then kill them, and
would dispose of the bodies by cutting them into pieces and
spreading the pieces out in various locations. He wanted to rid
the world of prostitutes just like his mom. He would be
considered a serial killer based on the fact of the patterns, I.e.,
serial occasions of specific profiles of victims and killings. This
was multiple victims in different periods of time and on
multiple compassions compared to one big mass occasion. He
would be considered mission-oriented and out for revenge. As
stated by Fox & Levin (2005), “The motive of power and
control encompasses what earlier typologies have termed the
“mission-oriented killer” (Holmes 7 Deburger, 1988), whose
crimes are designed to further a cause. Through killing, he
claims an attempt to rid the world of filth and evil, such as by
killing prostitutes or the homeless. “He wanted control of his
life and wanted to rid anyone in that field of women who were
prostitutes that reminded him of his neglectful and alcoholic
mom.
Reference
Fox, J. A., & Levin, J. (2005). Defining multiple murder. In
Extreme killing: Understanding serial and mass murder (pp. 15–
25). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc. Extreme

20. Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder. Copyright 2005
by Sage Publications via the Copyright Clearance Center.
Mass Murder. (n.d.).
https://class.waldenu.edu/bbcswebdav/courses/USW1.17952.202
310/Mass%20Murder.pdf
STUDENT REPLY #2 Nicole Holmes
A serial murderer is the killing of 2 or more victims by the same
offender in separate events.
Jeffery Dahmer is an example of a serial murderer.
He started killing in 1978 at the age of 18.
Dahmer killed at least 17 people that authorities found out
about.

21. John Wayne Gracy was another serial murderer who was
convicted of 33 counts of murder, with one of his younger
victims being as young as 15.
Jeffery Dahmer would lure young boys to his home, sometimes
acting as if he wanted to be friends with them. Only to add to
his body count.
Some say he would sodomize the deceased victims.
Dahmer can be labeled as a serial murderer because he killed
multiple people at different times in separate events. Dahmer
also fits the description of a serial murderer due to the cooling-
off periods he had. There were no killings known about on a
daily basis.
Of course, profiles are not suitable in all cases, even in some
murder cases (Holmes & Holmes, 1992, 2000). They are usually
more efficacious in cases where the unknown perpetrator has
displayed indications of psychopathology (Geberth, 2006;
Holmes & Holmes, 2000). Crimes most appropriate for
psychological profiling are those where discernable patterns are
able to be deciphered from the crime scene or where the
fantasy/motive of the perpetrator is readily apparent.
I think this is a great example of the Jeffery Dahmer case. His
documentary shows that Dahmer first started his unusual acts
with a manikin.
What differentiates mass murder from serial is also the timing
and number of murders. Serial killers commit murder over long
periods of time. Sometimes in different locations like that of
Dahmer.
His killings were based on sexual homicide and sadistic sexual

22. assaults.
While mass murders kill within a single time frame.
Serial killers differ in their motives for killing. Dahmer was a
visionary in his plot for murder.
Reference
Holmes, R. and Holmes, S. (2008) Profiling Violent Crimes.
4th edn. SAGE Publications.