Dr. Tato presented several key ideas and provided insightful information regarding profiling and investigative psychology. Personality shows in your behavior (H. Tato, personal communication, July 9, 2016). Therefore, analyzing a person’s behavior gives valuable insights into a person’s personality and why they might have behaved in a particular manner. As Dr. Tato explained, profiling is a method for suggesting the offender’s personality and demographic characteristics. Every person has two persons within one, the fantasy which is what is within the person’s head that he does not share and the reality, which is the results or who the person is seen as. To understand people and the situation, you have to look at both the fantasy and the
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Crime scene profiling recognized that offenders display different approaches to crime as a result of their different personality composition (Schlesinger, 2009). Offenders can be categorized into two general groups as organized or disorganized offenders. Organized offenders demonstrate careful planning, with little evidence left behind. They are generally intelligent and sociable, and may travel far to commit the crime. Contrary to the organized offender, the disorganized offender is acting on impulse, perhaps an unplanned crime with a lot of evidence left at the scene of the crime. It is not uncommon for them to live close to the crime scene as the act was impulsive in nature. There are many more traits indicative of an organized or disorganized offender that can be used to profile the perpetrator. The psychology behind this approach to profiling implies that an individual’s personality is generally consistent across situations (Schlesinger, 2009). The same personality traits transcend into the crime they are committing. If a person has compulsive behavior in their daily life, with characteristics of neatness, orderliness and rigidity, their behavior will be similar for committing a crime. Their personality would not lend them toward behaving differently in other aspects of their life, even if that aspect is not a positive
Crime scene profiling recognized that offenders display different approaches to crime as a result of their different personality composition (Schlesinger, 2009). Offenders can be categorized into two general groups as organized or disorganized offenders. Organized offenders demonstrate careful planning, with little evidence left behind. They are generally intelligent and sociable, and may travel far to commit the crime. Contrary to the organized offender, the disorganized offender is acting on impulse, perhaps an unplanned crime with a lot of evidence left at the scene of the crime. It is not uncommon for them to live close to the crime scene as the act was impulsive in nature. There are many more traits indicative of an organized or disorganized offender that can be used to profile the perpetrator. The psychology behind this approach to profiling implies that an individual’s personality is generally consistent across situations (Schlesinger, 2009). The same personality traits transcend into the crime they are committing. If a person has compulsive behavior in their daily life, with characteristics of neatness, orderliness and rigidity, their behavior will be similar for committing a crime. Their personality would not lend them toward behaving differently in other aspects of their life, even if that aspect is not a positive