CRJU 3365 - The Profile of the Serial Offender

3 Credit Hours 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours
Prerequisites CRJU 1101.
This course is designed for the serious student of the behavioral sciences who is interested in developing the insight necessary to understand why some violent offenders repeat their crimes while others do not. The students will learn various skills necessary in the development of offender characteristics and traits as well as investigative strategies in unsolved homicide and sexual assaults. They will learn how to determine whether a victim was specifically targeted for violence or randomly selected. They will learn how to identify and interpret the behavioral evidence left at crime scenes by particular types of serial offenders. Additionally, the students will be exposed to the most recent theories and research which attempt to explain how the serial offender evolves from childhood to young adult and beyond. It should be noted that actual case presentations will be made throughout the course to illustrate each phase in the development of the serial offender.