Foundations of Psychological Profiling

<p>Profiling is a hot topic today. The post-9/11 War on Terrorism has engendered political ethical and scientific controversy over its use. The proliferation of recent films television programs and books is a sociocultural indicator of widespread interest. Designed for a diverse audience—including law enforcement officers intelligence and security officers attorneys and researchers—<strong>Foundations of Psychological Profiling: Terrorism Espionage and Deception </strong>presents scientific theory and data on the notion of profiles integrating essential interdisciplinary knowledge related to the practice and applications of profiling that is rarely found in books on the subject.</p><p></p><p>Exploring the related fields of historiography hermeneutics epistemology and narratology the book:</p><p></p><ul> <br><br><p></p> <li>Examines the definitions history and politics of profiling</li> <br><br><li>Explains how valid profiling can confront challenges such as the suitability of common scientific methods for the behavioral sciences</li> <br><br><li>Discusses how schematics allow profilers to best ask and answer the right questions when attempting to predict what might happen identify what is or has already happened and understand and influence any related events</li> <br><br><li>Describes various psychological events within or exhibited by profilers impacting the five desired endpoints of profiling</li> <br><br><li>Presents the theories constructs and illustrations related to two crucial tasks: (1) creating a representation of how events relate to each other and to events of interest and (2) creating a narrative based on that matrix</li> <br><br><li>Demonstrates applications in profiling related to terrorism espionage and deception</li> <br><br> </ul><p></p><p>When conducted successfully profiling can immensely benefit intelligence security and law enforcement professionals to help unearth behaviors clues and triggers to when why and how someone with bad intent may a</p>