Behaviour Profiling

This is an IEAC Accredited Course to help you learn and understand Behavioural Profiling.

Learn about the process of assessing an individual’s personality traits, motivations, and work styles to understand their behaviour in various situations. A behavioural profile then helps us to understand more about people and the type of people who do certain things.

For example, why does this person commit serious crime? Based on an analysis, a profile can be created, which can then include information on the offender’s demographics, psychology, and potential habits. Profilers look for behavioural clues that reveal how the offender thinks, plans, and interacts with the environment. The goal is not to identify a specific individual, but to create a behavioural portrait that helps investigators understand the type of person who may have committed the crime.

A criminal act is committed by a criminal. Why someone commits a crime is not always explained or examined in detail. ‘Why?’ is the biggest question and for some offenders, they themselves sometimes can have no real sense or reason as to what they did and why. Increasingly, law enforcement agencies are turning to behavioural profiling or criminal profiling to help find some of these answers.

There is a final assessment that can be undertaken at any time, day or night; and you will be awarded a coveted: IEAC (International Education Accreditation Council) Certificate, which will have your name on it, including full course details.

THE LESSONS IN THIS COURSE COVER THE FOLLOWING:

Lesson 1: Introduction

• What is profiling?
• Personality
• Types of profiling
• When and why do we carry out profiling?
• How profiling is done
• Lesson 1 additional reading
• Types of serial killers
• Psychopaths
• But why do murderers kill?
• Who commits murder?
• Murder statistics
• Review what you have been learning

Lesson 2: How To Profile Someone 

• Profiling techniques
• Putting it all together
• Psychological testing in recruitment – how good is it?
• Personality testing in recruitment
• Review what you have been learning

Lesson 3: Interviews and Questionnaires 

• Psychological screening
• What is an interview?
• Planning an interview: structured or unstructured
• Components of a profiling interview
• What can go wrong?
• Dealing with interview data
• Competency based interviews in recruitment
• Non-verbal behaviour
• Active listening and SOLER
• Review what you have been learning

Lesson 4: Behavioural Assessment 

• The ABC model
• Traditional vs behavioural assessment
• Different applications of behavioural assessments
• Behavioural assessment techniques
• Problems with behavioural assessments
• Functional analysis
• More on behavioural assessments
• Methods of behavioural assessment
• The focus of assessment
• Analysis of problem behaviour
• Review what you have been learning

Lesson 5: Classical Assessment Tests 

• The nature of traditional assessment tests
• Reliability and validity of psychological tests
• More on Wechsler intelligence scales
• Subtests
• Psychological testing in recruitment – how good is it?
• Review what you have been learning

Lesson 6: What Comes Next? 

• Applications for profiles
• How & where to use a profile
• Computer profiling
• Ethics of profiling
• Problems with profiling
• The future of profiling
• Profiling – a summary
• Review what you have been learning

FINAL ASSESSMENT

HOW OUR COURSES WORK:

•    Enrol any time of day or night.
•    Start studying immediately or later (as you wish).
•    Upon enrolment, you will receive an email containing your “Username” and “Password”
•    Help desk – Contact us via email: info@homestudy.co.uk or call: + 44 (0) 1227 789 649
•    There are automated self-assessment tests at the end of each lesson.
•    At the end of the whole course, you are presented with an automated examination.
•    Gain a 60% pass and receive an: IEAC (International Education Accreditation Council) Certificate.