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Title: | Investigative Experience and Accuracy in Psychological Profiling of a Violent Crime | Contributor(s): | Kocsis, Richard (author); Hayes, AF (author); Irwin, Harvey Jon (author) | Publication Date: | 2002 | DOI: | 10.1177/0886260502017008001 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/10722 | Abstract: | Although psychological profiling has achieved wide acceptance in law enforcement investigations, there has been little empirical research into the skills required for profiling. One attribute that is frequently cited as quintessential for effective profiling is experience in police investigations. In a study similar in design to Kocsis, Irwin, Hayes, and Nunn, this study examined the importance in profiling of investigative experience by testing groups of homicide detectives, senior police detectives, trainee detectives, police recruits, and undergraduate chemistry students. The chemistry students tended to produce the most accurate profiles of the perpetrator of a closed homicide case. Of all the groups, the chemistry students most consistently outperformed a control group given no information about the case when constructing a profile of the offender. There was also some evidence of an inverse relationship between investigative experience and profile accuracy. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 17(8), p. 811-823 | Publisher: | Sage Publications, Inc | Place of Publication: | United States of America | ISSN: | 1552-6518 0886-2605 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 940499 Justice and the Law not elsewhere classified | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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