CJ 276 Empirical Profiling (5 credits)

2. Develop and deliver empirically-based profiles.

3. Interpret the psychological behavior at a crime scene.

4. Classify crime scene behaviors, behavioral changes, and behavioral consistency.

5. Identify the Action to Characteristic equation.

6. Identify, articulate, and apply crime linkage techniques.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcomes:

1. Graduates will critically apply theoretically sound judgment in crime analysis, criminal investigation, and investigative profiling.

2. Graduates will make reliable decisions based on analytical ability and critical thinking skills.

3. Graduates will make effective oral and written presentations of crime analysis and investigative profiles.

4. Graduates will demonstrate critical thinking: demonstrate accurate inductive/deductive reasoning, logic, problem- solving, creativity, self-awareness, and self-regulation.

5. Graduates will develop and maintain personal and professional relationships.

6. Graduates will communicate appropriately, based on topic, audience, and situation.

Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.

Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods.

Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.

Information Competency: Graduates will be able to seek, find, evaluate and use information, and employ information technology to engage in lifelong learning.

Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50