Course Information:
Advanced Criminal
Investigative Analysis

Over the years the profiling of unknown offenders has become increasingly accepted as a valuable tool in criminal investigations, particularly those involving homicides. Yet, it is important to recognize that not all homicides will conform to the organized vs. disorganized crime scene patterns that have been developed for the victims of seemingly random homicides where victims are strangers. Offenders who abduct and kill children and those who kill elderly women, for example, fit different behavioral patterns than those who kill these more typical victims. The Advanced Criminal Investigative Analysis Course is designed to help you identify these differences between offenders.

This is a one-week (36 hour) "hands-on" program that provides you with techniques you can use immediately to solve the real-world problems that daily confront law enforcement officers. The skills learned in the course will save you countless hours of time for they assist you in focusing an investigation on the most likely type of person who committed the crime. You will discover why and how an offender targets his victims, and learn how to predict his motivation, his pre-offense behavior, his post-offense behavior, and his behavior during the murder itself.

While the course focuses primarily on the crime of homicide, in-class projects also deal with the crime of rape. Other relevant issues are examined as well. For example, you will learn how to identify the personality and behavioral characteristics of the victim and the offender in child abductions, how to identify the physical, behavioral, and personality characteristics of offenders who attack and kill elderly women, and how to analyze information contained in police reports to actually develop a profile that describes the type of offender who most likely committed a crime.Presented in a comfortable, non-threatening environment that permits both individualized and group instruction, the course takes a "learn-by-doing" approach that gives students many opportunities to actually perform the tasks associated with the criminal profiling process.

You Should Attend If:
• You have received some prior training in recognizing organized vs. disorganized crime scene patterns

• You are a sex crimes investigator

• You are a homicide investigator

• You are a crimes against children investigator

• You are a patrol officer who may be in a position to recognize the characteristics of serial crimes

• You are a crime analyst responsible for providing assistance to violent crime investigators

• You are now -- or may later be -- responsible for investigating, analyzing or supervising the investigation or analysis of violent crimes

Here's What You Will Learn
This course will provide you with an arsenal of skills to accomplish five separate tasks. First, you will review organized vs. disorganized crime scene patterns. Second, you will learn how to identify the characteristics and behavioral patterns of offenders who molest children. Third, you will be shown how to identify the physical and personality characteristics of offenders who abduct and kill children. Fourth, you will be taught how to determine the inner nature of offenders who kill elderly women, and how to recognize the victim traits and circumstances under which this type of crime is committed. Finally, you will be provided the opportunity to work an actual rape or homicide case and to prepare a profile of the suspect. You will then compare your results with others who have profiled the same offender.

Operational Issues
• Take a SECOND Look! Reviewing the All Important Crime Scene Characteristics of Organized/Disorganized Homicides

• Comparing the Differences between the Physical, Sexual, and Emotional Abuse of Children

• How to Recognize the Differences between Preferential vs. Situational Child Molesters, their Characteristics and their Patterns of Behavior

• Identifying the Stages Offenders Often Go Through in the Sexual Victimization of Children

• It Shouldn't Hurt to be a Kid. How to Recognize the Behavioral and the Emotional Consequences to Sexually Abused Children

• How to Identify Motivational Considerations Behind the Various Forms of Child Abductions

• It's NOT Always That Obvious! How to Recognize the Nature of a Sexual Homicide

• How to Determine the Personality and Behavioral Characteristics of the Victim and the Offender in Child Abductions

• How to identify the Physical, the Behavioral, and the Personality Characteristics of Offenders who Attack Elderly Females

• How to Identify the Characteristics and the Circum- stances of Elderly Females that Make Them Vulnerable to Attack

• And Much, Much More!

The Profiling Process
All participants will have the opportunity to develop and practice their profiling skills by creating an in-class profile of a rapist, single homicide, or multiple homicide suspect identified from real police cases. With feedback from the instructor, students will then compare THEIR profiles with the ACTUAL profiles of the offenders.