Profiling of Crimes Committed by Psychopathic Offenders
Authors
Ruihan Chen
Criminal Investigation Police University of China, ShenYang, 110854, China
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Corresponding Author
Ruihan Chen
Available Online 11 July 2022.
- 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.
- Copyright
- © 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
Cite this article
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 -