Contemporary Problems in Criminal Profiling*

Kocsis, Richard N.; Palermo, George B.

doi:10.1007/978-1-60327-146-2_16

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“…For instance, the founders of the Behavioural Evidence Analysis approach have created the Academy of Behavioural Profiling, whose fundamental mission is to develop and promote a ‘multi-disciplinary education and training, practice standards and peer review for those who engage in evidence based criminal profiling’ and ‘foster the development of a class of practitioners capable of raising the discipline of evidence based behavioral profiling to the status of a profession’ (http://www.profiling.org/abp_mission.html). Most schools also offer courses and training within the specific realm of their own practices, some of which resemble little other than self-accreditation programmes (Kocsis & Palermo, 2007).…”

Section: Validity Measurement Dilemmamentioning

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Questioning the validity of criminal profiling: an evidence-based approach

Chifflet

2014

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology

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Criminal profiling is used in complex investigations, and, in a number of jurisdictions, as expert evidence in criminal trials. This article seeks to move beyond the many anecdotal accounts of success by profilers and examine the evidence available as to the discipline's validity. As it stands, profiling is based on theories that are uncertain at best, and little research has been undertaken to assess the actual accuracy of generated profiles. This absence of validation is in part due to genuine difficulties associated with designing appropriate testing models. It is exacerbated by the reluctance of profilers to engage in such a process, relying instead on the well-rehearsed, yet somewhat circular argument that the continuing demand for profiling advice is in itself reassuring evidence of the method's validity. It is the lack of objective evidence of validity in this area that will be critically considered in this article.

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Section: Validity Measurement Dilemmamentioning

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Questioning the validity of criminal profiling: an evidence-based approach

Chifflet

2014

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology

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“…In perhaps the most confusing discussion in the literature to date, Kocsis and Palermo (2007) discuss only some of the methods of profiling, without any discussion at all of others, but of most concern is their take on deduction. They state the following (pp.…”

Section: This Form Of Reasoning In Profiling Is the Basis For Many Ermentioning

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Induction and Deduction in Criminal Profiling

Petherick¹

2014

Profiling and Serial Crime

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“…According to Kocsis and Palermo, the distinction between inductive profiling and deductive profiling is based on mere philosophical concepts that do not grasp the complexity, above and beyond induction and deduction, of the human mind, which does not function in a discrete manner. Kocsis and Palermo (2006) therefore claim that "the brain itself, as a complex and highly active neuronal synaptic system, may subconsciously process diverse and/or intrusive thoughts that may increase the difficulty of full engagement in one or the other method. If the cognitive processes of the mind are incapable of engaging in this fashion, the suggestion of a method of profiling premised on the issue of one form of reasoning to the exclusion of the other is rendered highly problematic" (pp.…”

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Criminal Profiling as a Plotting Activity Based on Abductive Processes

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2009

Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol

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In this article the authors analyze the nature and aims of criminal profiling from a theoretical point of view. The need to become increasingly "scientific" has given rise to the modern approaches of profiling, which have been particularly successful in cases of serial homicides and sex crimes, given that compulsive (perverse) acts, because of their ritual nature, have been described as being more easily foreseeable and presumably linkable to the psychological and even personal characteristics of a given criminal. On this basis, the authors analyze profiling from an epistemological point of view and show how, in the concrete activity of profiling, profilers depart from the "certainty" of the scientific models (those that are based on deductive-inductive processes); the epistemological basis of reasoning changes as there is no longer an induction-deduction model but rather an abductive model (as conceived and explained by Peirce) in which the importance of plotting (the weaving of a narrative) becomes greater.

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Contemporary Problems in Criminal Profiling*

Cited by 11 publications

References 28 publications

Questioning the validity of criminal profiling: an evidence-based approach

Questioning the validity of criminal profiling: an evidence-based approach

Induction and Deduction in Criminal Profiling

Criminal Profiling as a Plotting Activity Based on Abductive Processes

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