CIF5520EN - Criminal Behavior & Profiling

Course description

This course provides an analytical framework to evaluate theory, research, and practice of modern criminal profiling and behavioral analysis. Students will have the opportunity to participate in the analytical evaluation of how the role of criminal profiling is employed within the investigative arena for the purpose of exploring behavioral tendencies, geographical locations, demographic elements, and other personality traits of the offender that is revealed through the characteristics of the crime.

How this course benefits students

The course assumes basic knowledge of the issues associated to behavior analysis with the opportunity for students to advance their knowledge on an analytical level by contextually comprehending criminal profiling as a measure to be utilized for locating the most accurate perpetrator. Students will have the knowledge to evaluate the challenges that permeate the behavior analysis process while being exposed to the mission associated to applying criminal profiling measures and techniques in the exploration of crime commission and criminality alike.

Why this course is important

Students will have the opportunity to collaborate together on addressing the serviceable element associated to the mission of behavior analysis in the investigative realm of criminal justice. There will be activities, assessments, and tasks that will address the appropriate modalities to incorporate in comprehending characteristics and patterns that criminals reveal within their criminality.

Credit hours
3 hours
Subject area
Criminal Investigation & Forensics
Educational level
Master
Learning type
Instructional
Prerequisites
None
Upcoming terms
Pending
* Schedule subject to change. Please contact the Registrar's office with schedule questions.

How this course relates to missional core values

Biblically based

This course is designed to address the importance associated to behavior analysis and the art of criminal profiling utilized within crime scene investigations; in addition, the Biblical of letting the Lord weigh the motives of man and maintaining a clean heart is pertinent to understanding that bias is not the goal to be bestowed, but rather wisdom and knowledge alike.

Missionally driven

This course will provide students with the opportunity to investigate the purpose of patience and dedication within behavior analysis processes in criminal investigations. The focus centers upon applying the technique of criminal profiling to be utilized to ensure that all measures of evidence have been explored and evaluated for the purpose of creating an accurate profile of the perpetrator responsible for crime commission.

Contextually informed

This course will provide students with the opportunity to investigate the strategies associated to crime scene profiling, geographic profiling, psychological profiling, suspect-based profiling, and equivalent death investigation analysis.

Interculturally focused

The culture of analyzing criminal behavior centers upon the notion that behavior is fluid and dynamic in nature; criminal behavior in particular violates norms, laws, and mores that have been established within a given culture. This course merges the scientific element of assessment with behavior to illustrate the synergistic component that subsists within the realm of investigations.

Practically minded

The investigative arena embraces an element of analysis and crime scene investigations even more so implements this level of analytical exploration for the purpose of inspecting the validity of actions by others. Criminal behavior can be both complex and simplistic in nature

Experientially transformed

this course will provide students with the opportunity to research and examine various challenges that subsist within this specialization in regards to criminal profiling measures that are implemented in addressing an accurate profile of the perpetrator.