About this episode
This episode explores the reliability and history of criminal profiling in solving crimes.
Criminal profiling promises a lot — being able to piece together a picture of a suspect through clues, intuition and psychology sounds great. But how reliable is it? In our first episode of Forensic, a four-part series unpacking the psychological tools used to solve crimes, we examine the history of criminal profiling. How it got popular in the 1950s after bombings in New York City, its shortcomings when scrutinised by researchers, and the techniques it is built on that police deploy today (but with a lot more data). Guests: Michael CannellAuthor, Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber and the Invention of Criminal Profiling Former Editor, The New York Times Professor Craig JacksonProfessor of Occupational Health PsychologyBirmingham City University Dr Victoria BerezowskiLecturer, Forensic Science, Deakin University Credits: Presenter/producer: Sana Qadar Senior producer: James Bullen Producer: Rose Kerr Sound engineer: Isabella Tropiano You can catch up on more episodes of the All in the Mind podcast with journalist and presenter Sana Qadar, exploring the psychology of topics like stress, memory, communication and relationships on ABC Listen or wherever you get your…
People in this episode
Host: Sana Qadar
Guests: Michael Cannell, Professor Craig Jackson, Dr Victoria Berezowski
Topics covered
- criminal profiling
- psychology
- forensic science
- crime solving
- history of profiling
Keywords
- criminal profiling
- psychology
- forensic science
- crime
- New York City
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: ABC Australia, The New York Times, Psychology Today
Books & works: Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber and the Invention of Criminal Profiling
Places: New York City
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