Forensic cyberpsychology and approaches to criminal profiling

Although there are plenty of theories which consider psychological factors of criminal behaviour and almost every criminal act has a digital aspect, criminal profiling is not so popular among forensic psychologists, especially when it comes to cybercrime. Thus, the goal of this paper is to give a br...

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Main Author: Vlajić Dušan Lj.
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Language:English
Published: Faculty of Philosophy, Kosovska Mitrovica 2022-01-01
Series:Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini
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description Although there are plenty of theories which consider psychological factors of criminal behaviour and almost every criminal act has a digital aspect, criminal profiling is not so popular among forensic psychologists, especially when it comes to cybercrime. Thus, the goal of this paper is to give a brief overview of literature considering psychological factors related to deviant computer and online behaviour. Two basic approaches of criminal profiling, inductive and deductive, will be presented, as well as their advantages, disadvantages, logic they follow and concepts they rely on when analysing digital evidence in order to narrow suspect pools. Concrete models developed under each approach will be briefly portrayed. Moreover, studies from the field of cyberpsychology will be presented and their relationship with profiling will be discussed, particularly with inductive approach, which is original contribution of this paper. At the very end, suggestions for overcoming limitations of previous studies and converging disciplines of criminal profiling and cyberpsychology will be offered.
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spelling doaj.art-66a10544002a4ac8bfe1ba3564c83c572022-12-22T01:28:19ZengFaculty of Philosophy, Kosovska MitrovicaZbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini0354-32932217-80822022-01-0152234536110.5937/zrffp52-335870354-32932202345VForensic cyberpsychology and approaches to criminal profilingVlajić Dušan Lj.0Univerzitet u Nišu, Filozofski fakultet, Departman za psihologiju, SerbiaAlthough there are plenty of theories which consider psychological factors of criminal behaviour and almost every criminal act has a digital aspect, criminal profiling is not so popular among forensic psychologists, especially when it comes to cybercrime. Thus, the goal of this paper is to give a brief overview of literature considering psychological factors related to deviant computer and online behaviour. Two basic approaches of criminal profiling, inductive and deductive, will be presented, as well as their advantages, disadvantages, logic they follow and concepts they rely on when analysing digital evidence in order to narrow suspect pools. Concrete models developed under each approach will be briefly portrayed. Moreover, studies from the field of cyberpsychology will be presented and their relationship with profiling will be discussed, particularly with inductive approach, which is original contribution of this paper. At the very end, suggestions for overcoming limitations of previous studies and converging disciplines of criminal profiling and cyberpsychology will be offered.https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0354-3293/2022/0354-32932202345V.pdfcriminal profilinginductive profilingdeductive profilingcybercrimecyberpsychologydigital evidence
spellingShingle Vlajić Dušan Lj.
Forensic cyberpsychology and approaches to criminal profiling
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inductive profiling
deductive profiling
cybercrime
cyberpsychology
digital evidence
title Forensic cyberpsychology and approaches to criminal profiling
title_full Forensic cyberpsychology and approaches to criminal profiling
title_fullStr Forensic cyberpsychology and approaches to criminal profiling
title_full_unstemmed Forensic cyberpsychology and approaches to criminal profiling
title_short Forensic cyberpsychology and approaches to criminal profiling
title_sort forensic cyberpsychology and approaches to criminal profiling
topic criminal profiling
inductive profiling
deductive profiling
cybercrime
cyberpsychology
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