Foreseeing violent or heinous crimes have become increasingly refined and more precise. In 1972, the FBI Academy created a Behavioral Science Unit which they now call the Behavioral Analysis Unit—which in essence began looking for behavioral patterns of criminals, especially serial rapists and killers (2008). With the addition of this unit to the FBI, it allowed for a safer public, improved public safety and more importantly a growth in understanding early risk factors. With increased understanding of psychological factors along with applying creative new tactics to dealing with criminal investigation, early capture or early prevention of future crimes could occur. In "The FBI: A Centennial History", one major criminal occurrence noted is murder (2008). There are three general psychological risk factors as it involves crime; personality characteristics, psychodynamic developments and understandings and behaviors, however based on the article, one important psychological risk factor found to be common in many of the murderous events is psychodynamic process theory.
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Now it understood that Moore (2000) believed that psychodynamic processes tend to be a heavy weighted factor, but that is not to over shadow, personality traits, learned cognitions and behaviors. In its own right, each one is to be equally evaluated as a whole person concept so that one could draw a conclusion of an unsub with all the background facts that one would not normally find while looking for physical evidence. Psychodynamic theory has a foundation on the belief that an individual’s behavior and their emotions as adults are rooted from their adolescent experiences. In many of the crimes mentioned in The FBI: A Centennial History (2008), the Jeffrey Dahmer case raised more of a relation to the Psychodynamic process
The psychodynamic method to comprehending …show more content…
Now it understood that Moore (2000) believed that psychodynamic processes tend to be a heavy weighted factor, but that is not to over shadow, personality traits, learned cognitions and behaviors. In its own right, each one is to be equally evaluated as a whole person concept so that one could draw a conclusion of an unsub with all the background facts that one would not normally find while looking for physical evidence. Psychodynamic theory has a foundation on the belief that an individual’s behavior and their emotions as adults are rooted from their adolescent experiences. In many of the crimes mentioned in The FBI: A Centennial History (2008), the Jeffrey Dahmer case raised more of a relation to the Psychodynamic process