CRIMINAL PROFILING - BPS227

Study Criminal Profiling Online

This course is a useful qualification for anyone who is interested in investigating crimes, understanding criminal behaviour or working in crime or law enforcement.

Understanding how criminal profiles are developed.

Understand criminal behaviour.

Understand victimology and victim behaviour.

Course Structure

There are ten lessons in this course:

  1. Introduction to Criminal Profiling
  2. Profiling Methods
  3. Crime Scene Analysis
  4. Offender Characteristics
  5. Victimology
  6. Offender Profiling – Sexual Crimes
  7. Offender Profiling – Violent Crimes
  8. Offender Profiling – White Collar Crimes
  9. Offender Profiling – Victimless Crimes, Consensual Crimes and Other Crimes
  10. 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.

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.

 

Who is this course suitable for?

Anyone who wants to understand more about criminal behaviour and criminal profiling.

People working in, or wanting to work in -

  • law enforcement
  • prisons
  • the criminal justice system
  • prisons
  • youth work
  • social work
  • criminal investigations
  • private detectives
  • and more.

The course is studied online or by e-learning. It is also self-paced, so you can study when and where suits you, to fit in around your work and life.