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Assignment DetailsScenario:You are an intern assigned to a special agent for your state's investigative bureau with a specialty in criminal intelligence. A representative for the Governor’s Office would like you to write a paper explaining how someone who is not a forensic psychologist is able to fill the position of criminal profiler in the State Investigation Bureau (SIB).To meet this request, you will prepare a 3–4-page white paper (in APA format) for the Governor and her staff so that they understand your training and why law enforcement personnel are used for this position rather than forensic psychologists.You will start by explaining what a forensic criminal profiler does and how investigators may be best suited for this position. Relate how the criminal profiler targets serial crimes involving murder, sexual assaults, and rare arson types. Explain the appropriate background for a criminal profiler.Create a 3–4-page paper including such issues as the following:The way the crimes were committedWhere the crimes were committedHow the victims were chosenThe crime typeThe times the crimes were committedIf the offender was/is communicating with the police or other individuals (press, victim’s family, and so on)The circumstances and condition of the actual crime scene(s)****View attachment below for Unit 2 template******

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Running head: CRIMINAL PROFILER 		1
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CRIMINAL PROFILER
FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY AND CRIMINAL PROFILING
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AMERICAN INTERCONTINENTAL UNIVERSITY
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Abstract
	Criminal profiling is one of the major aspects of behavioral analysis unit run by many police departments that integrates psychology into crime solving. Several aspects of the crime are put into consideration while building up the profile of the criminal. The nature of crime, the geographical location, the time of activity, the choice of victims, the professional nature, whether the crime is mediated by motive or is simply random, the signature of the killer, staging of the crime scene, the mental stability of the perpetrator and even childhood and heritage of the suspect are used to build a profile that have often led the police right at the doorstep of the criminal. Therefore, the key to solving a crime lies in understanding its due nature.
Forensic Psychology and Criminal Profiling
	In today’s world behavioral analysis and criminal profiling works hand in hand to build a proper criminal case study. Nature of crimes reveals that most of the criminals often have a common psychosocial aspect that can be used to identify and prevent future crimes. Forensic physiologists are working along with law enforcement officers to integrate psychology into criminal cases. Therefore, the need for new generation criminal profilers has risen considerably in the last decade.
Role of the Criminal Profiler
	The role of a criminal profiler is gaining popularity in law enforcement. Criminal profilers are consulted by the police department in order to gain some psychological insight into a more random and chaotic cases where the suspects cannot be identified. Based on the common understanding of the nature of the crime, the victims chosen, the area of activities, the number and pattern of killings including the nature of the crimes committed, a profiler is tasked to build a character analysis of the perpetrator. Based on the case report,

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