Profiler By David B. H. Kanner Summary
Introduction
What makes the ordinary person become a criminal? What is a Profiler? The answers to those questions are in the book ‘Profiler’ by David B H Kanner.
David B H Kanner is an author of books such as ‘Welcome to Eden: A guide to offshore works’, ‘A guide to nonverbal interpersonal communication’, ‘Commands in Bridge’, ‘Commands in Defense’, Commands in Leading’, etc. Most of those books are in the psychology and science genre as they describe the psychological aspects of people’s actions. (Amazon, 2016)
In his book ‘Profiler’, the author explains the psychological causes which are the reason for the different crimes. He describes how the profilers are identifying the profiles of the criminals and how the offenders’ next steps are …show more content…
As explained by the author, one of them is the linkage analysis as a behavioral analysis for determining the possibility of series of crimes by the same offender and it is used when physical evidence cannot be collected (DNA). (Kanner, 2015)
The most interesting question is how criminal profiling works. Criminal profiling is based on the set of values that criminals, regardless of the crime, committed. Those values are individual and they help to make a positive identification.
The profiling also studies the victimology (a study of the victims of a particular criminal). It looks at the age, lifestyle, similarities and hair and eye color, whether victims have some relationship in the past, the interests. (Kanner, 2015)
Furthermore, profiling helps in predicting criminals’ next move. Profilers try to use the evidence in hand to predict what the offenders will do next. The most important thing for profilers, according to the book, is the forensic evidence – fingerprints, hair and fibers, computers, DNA, etc. (Kanner,
What makes the ordinary person become a criminal? What is a Profiler? The answers to those questions are in the book ‘Profiler’ by David B H Kanner.
David B H Kanner is an author of books such as ‘Welcome to Eden: A guide to offshore works’, ‘A guide to nonverbal interpersonal communication’, ‘Commands in Bridge’, ‘Commands in Defense’, Commands in Leading’, etc. Most of those books are in the psychology and science genre as they describe the psychological aspects of people’s actions. (Amazon, 2016)
In his book ‘Profiler’, the author explains the psychological causes which are the reason for the different crimes. He describes how the profilers are identifying the profiles of the criminals and how the offenders’ next steps are …show more content…
As explained by the author, one of them is the linkage analysis as a behavioral analysis for determining the possibility of series of crimes by the same offender and it is used when physical evidence cannot be collected (DNA). (Kanner, 2015)
The most interesting question is how criminal profiling works. Criminal profiling is based on the set of values that criminals, regardless of the crime, committed. Those values are individual and they help to make a positive identification.
The profiling also studies the victimology (a study of the victims of a particular criminal). It looks at the age, lifestyle, similarities and hair and eye color, whether victims have some relationship in the past, the interests. (Kanner, 2015)
Furthermore, profiling helps in predicting criminals’ next move. Profilers try to use the evidence in hand to predict what the offenders will do next. The most important thing for profilers, according to the book, is the forensic evidence – fingerprints, hair and fibers, computers, DNA, etc. (Kanner,