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CJS 4580 Profiling and Threat Assessment
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An examination of criminal profiling, including crime scene profiling, psychological profiling, and offender profiling. Discussion of ethnic, racial, and behavioral profiling as well as equivocal death analysis (psychological autopsy). Geographical profiling of serial killers and rapists. The biopsychosocial model of threat assessment, including applications to school shooters. Management of stalking behavior. Empirical validity versus media sensationalism of profiling and threat assessment.
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