Profiling of Crimes Committed by Psychopathic Offenders

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220704.108How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Psychopaths; Offender profiling; Criminal analysis

Abstract

Criminal profiling is a process that according to the behavioral pattern of offender to analyze the characteristics of the unknown subject of investigation. This article aims to review a specific type of offender, psychopaths, to analyze their features during the crimes. It will firstly introduce the concept of psychopath and their criminality from genetic, biological and environmental perspective. Then the characteristics of psychopathic offenders will be analyzed as well as motive, criminal scene analysis. Thirdly, three types of crimes that psychopaths highly involved will be discussed. Finally, from the perspective of victimology, it also discusses the features of victims that psychopathic offenders choose.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ruihan Chen
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/07/11
TI  - Profiling of Crimes Committed by Psychopathic Offenders
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Mental Health, Education and Human Development (MHEHD 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 597
EP  - 603
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220704.108
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220704.108
ID  - Chen2022
ER  -