Profiling: A Career In The FBI

Many places of work require a couple years of experience and knowledge before they hire; the FBI is no exception. Many who have gone into any field discover that most jobs require some sort of job experience. This is one of the ways that they make sure the people they hire can do their job exceptionally. The FBI is in that large list of companies that require prior experience. For one to follow a career in the FBI, he may want to take courses in profiling, crime scene investigation, forensic psychology, and forensic science. The art of profiling has made appearances in many different forms in many different eras. Although, Profiling as it is known today did not come around until the 1940’s and 1950’s. In the 1940’s and 50’s the Mad Bomber

In his conclusion, he stated that the subject would be living with a sibling, a roman catholic, foreign-born, heavy set, and when apprehended he would be wearing a buttoned double-breasted vest. Later, in 1957, the police arrested George Metesky for the bombings, who was living with his sister, foreign-born, roman catholic, and heavyset. When he answered the door of his sister’s house where he was living the police noted that he was wearing a buttoned, double-breasted vest. This was the first modern case of criminal profiling being used to solve a crime. ‘The process of profiling has its origins in “psychological profiling” and criminal case-study descriptions originally published by forensically inclined psychologists and psychiatrists seeking to further the understanding of the criminal mind.’(Beddows, 2016) This early form of profiling had more uses as strategy and psychological assessment purposes. Many mental-health professionals used this as a topic of discussion over theoretical issues. Later, in the 1970’s the FBI began to adapt Dr. Brussel’s techniques into a course they called Applied Criminology (profiling). Instead of running clinical analysis of known criminals like the mental- health professionals

The FBI began to use profiling to assign unknown offenders of serial crimes and serious violent crimes personality and behavioral characteristics. The outcome of this was the categorizing of criminals in two groups; organized or disorganized. This continuum recognized a differential that shown out no matter the sophistication of the crime. ‘Organized offenders planned their offenses, would target a victim who was a stranger, and were very evidence-conscious. Disorganized offenders tended to commit spontaneous offenses, were acquainted with the victim, and left physical evidence at the crime scene.’ (Beddows, 2016) Crime scene analysis would also reveal personality traits to either organized or disorganized offenders to profilers. An organized offender could be described as extremely intelligent, with higher than average IQ, high-birth order within their family, sexually and socially competent, worked within a skilled profession, portrayed a controlled mood during the commission of the crime, very mobile,used alcohol during the crime, and followed the crime in the news media. Where as, a disorganized offender have the description of average intelligence, had minimal