Book Report: Mindhunter By John Douglas

Mindhunter by John Douglas, book report

The book Mindhunter is a book based on a persons life and work, it is based on the famous FBI profiler John Douglas. John Douglas is also the author of the book.

Mindhunter is starting with describing Mr. Douglas life before he started the BSU (behavioral science unit) at FBI in Quantico, Virginia. John Douglas started off with wanting the become a veterinarian, but he was never a straight A student i school and didn 't have the grades needed to become a veterinarian. Mr. Douglas then started studying at another university, and then went into the air force profession. Mr. Douglas wasn 't in the airfare profession for long until he starts a profession within the law enforcement instead. In the law enforcement

Douglas and his coworkers did, they were able to create new investigative techniques that is very used today in criminal investigations. The two most important and most used investigation techniques is called victimology and signature. Mr. Douglas explained victimology is what kind of victim is the offender choosing to attack. By looking at the victims it can tell the investigators a lot about the offender, and example of this is if an offender is targeting blonde girls in their twenties, it is most likely that the victims is reminding the offender of someone in his life. It could for example be an ex-girlfriend who left him and etc. Signature, the other most used investigative technique, will also tell the investigators about the offender. A signature is something that could be example left on the crime scene or performed during the crime that is not a part of the offenders M.O. It is something the offender must do to fulfill himself and therefore the signature is something personal and individual for the

Because in my opinion this book is really teaching you the truth about profiling and how profiling is used in criminal investigations. I also find it very interesting how John Douglas is explaining through the book the motives and thoughts of offenders like Ed Gein, Wayne Williams, Ed Kemper, etc. I really enjoyed the parts of the book when Joh Douglas explained how they solved crimes with using profiling as an investigation technique. I believe that by explaining profiling while explaining how John Douglas himself used it in investigations was very interesting to read about, and it were also a good way of teaching. I I do believe that this book should be read if you want to work within law enforcement, because it teaches you so much about offenders and their behaviors, things that will be very useful to an investigator. However, this is a book I would recommend to others who have an interest in criminal justice and wants to have a greater knowledge about why people are committing crimes like