UNIVERSITY OF CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION AND POLICE STUDIES

THE MASTER ACADEMIC STUDIES OF CRIMINALISTICS

Course:

Criminal Profiling

Course Code: 15.8

ECTS: 6

Course Status:

Elective

Number of Effective Classes (Per Week): 3 + 1

Theoretical Education:

Practical Training:

Research Study Project:

3

1

-

Prerequisite/s: None

Educational Objective: Acquiring knowledge about models for making profile of offenders and specific profiles of criminal offenders with elements of violence.

Projected Outcome: Ability to create a profile of offenders and defining recommendations for the work of the criminal police in the process of proving.

Course Contents/Structure

Theoretical education: The notion, the subject and aims crime profiling; Rank profiling in a method of proof of criminal acts; Starting the theoretical basis for the analysis of crime (The Crime Triangle; Rational Crime Theory; Crime Pattern Theory; Routine Activities Theory); Baseline for the creation of profiles (Crime Scene, application of scientific methods in the analysis of the consequences of the offense; Crime Reconstruction);Models of creating a profile (Criminal Investigative Analysis; Investigation Psychology; Diagnostic Evaluation; Behavioral Evidence Analysis); Geographical Profiling (The notionand subject geographic profiling, application of the technology in the crime of geoinformation profiling; The basic elements for production of geographic profiles A method of making a geographic profile); Profiles of offenders (rape; murder: mass killers, spree killers and serial killers);Psychological approach to criminal profiling- research; Software support criminology profiling; Ethics in profiling; Education profilers.

Practical training: Creating a profile multiple offenders from the territory of the Republic of Serbia; Analysis of geographic profiles of serial offenders.

Teaching Methods: lecture, modified lecture, presentation.

Assessment (Maximum Number of Points: 100)

Pre-Exam Obligations

No. of Points

Final Examination

No. of Points

Active participation in classes

15

Written test

30

Practical training

15

Oral examination

40

Textbook/s

1. Đurđević, Z., Kolarević, D., Ivanović, Z., Milojković, B. (2012). Kriminalističko profilisanje, Beograd: Kriminalističko-policijska akademija.

2. Kolarević, D. (2014). Psihologija kriminala, Beograd: Kriminalističko-policijska akademija.

3. Đuđević, Z. (2014). Krivična dela ubistva (etiološke i fenomenološke karakteristike), Beograd: Službeni glasnik.