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Profiling Case Study
Profiling Case Study
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Book Introduction
Crimes caused by human desire, crimes caused by human despair
And profile crimes committed by inhumanity!


The daily news of crime makes many people anxious.
The brutal methods of the crime, the resulting feelings of disgust and anger, and the pity for the victims, all tear at our hearts.
Why do people commit crimes? What kind of people are criminals? Why do we need to know about them? Kwon Il-yong, the first profiling master of the Korean National Police Agency, explains.
What we need to understand is not simply the psychology of criminals, but how they committed their crimes and how they think about their victims and society.
So, through this book, we aim to understand the flow of crime in the past and to determine what kind of crimes will occur in the present and future.
That way we can figure out what to prepare.
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Chapter 1 What is a Profiler?

Why do we need a profiler?
The Correlation Between Science and Profiling
The Link Between Crime and Abnormal Psychology in Modern Society
The History of Profiling in South Korea
Profiling in the future

Chapter 2

First Case Study: A Violent Crime That Shook Korea
Violent crimes in Korea
Theory and practice are not different.
Murderers, what is their purpose?
"It was an unfair society that made me a criminal."
Case 1.
Lee Chun-jae case
Case 2.
Yoo Young-chul case
Case 3.
Jeong Nam-gyu case
Case 4.
Go Yu-jeong case

Chapter 3

Second Case Study: Sexual Crime and Digital Sexual Crime
The Rise of Sexual Crimes and the Evolution of Digital Sexual Crimes
Why do sex offenders claim mental weakness?
Child Sex Offenders: Who Are They?
Confession and reflection are different.
Case 1.
Nth room incident
Case 2.
Jeju child sex crime case
Case 3.
Busan apartment fire death incident

Chapter 4

Third Case Study: Don't Ask Crime
Crime clearly has a motive.
Why do they destroy lives?
Why Helplessness Turns into Anger
Types of 'blind crimes'
Case 1.
Jamwon-dong's Unanswered Murder Case
Case 2.
Nonhyeon-dong arson and murder case
Case 3.
Suraksan murder case
Case 4.
Jeju Cathedral Murder Case

Chapter 5

Fourth Case Study: Mental Illness Crime
Are Mental Illnesses and Crime Linked?
schizophrenia
delusional disorder
Why do crimes committed by people with mental illness occur?
Case 1.
Gangnam Station murder case
Case 2.
Incheon elementary school student kidnapping and murder case
Case 3.
Jinju Apartment Arson Murder Case
Case 4.
Psychiatrist Murder Case

Chapter 6

Fifth Case Study: Hate Crime
Crimes that manifest as baseless hatred and attacks
Similar hate crimes in our country
Case 1.
Black church shooting
Case 2.
Charlie Hebdo shooting incident

Chapter 7

Sixth Case Study: Psychopathy and Personality Disorders
Criminals who use psychology rather than tools
Am I being controlled by someone right now?
Attractive offers and kindnesses have intentions.
Case 1.
Wisdom Tooth Dad Murder Case
Case 2.
Nowon-gu three-woman murder case

Chapter 8

Seventh Case Study: Juvenile Crime
In search of the root of crime
How Gambling Leads to Addiction
Teenagers Falling into the Gambling Trap
Online gambling is behind juvenile crime.
Self-harm, an act of attacking oneself
Teenagers falling into crime again
Case 1.
Youth gambling addiction and what happens next
Case 2.
A Choice from 6 Years Ago, a Lost Teenager

Into the book
The US case has a very important meaning in Korean society.
In traditional Korean society, the statute of limitations for murder was 15 years.
But as brutal crimes began to occur, changes began to occur in Korean society.
This is the moment when the statute of limitations for murder and sexual crimes against minors has been abolished.


The existence of a statute of limitations means that investigations are stopped after 15 years.
Any further progress in apprehending the criminal was impossible.
However, the absence of a statute of limitations is very significant because it provides a link to track down the criminal in any way possible and to find evidence that could not be discovered at the time of the incident through scientific advancements.
--- p.15

Over the past 30 years, he has been deployed to approximately 1,500 violent crime scenes and has encountered over 1,000 criminals for profiling analysis.
The most difficult case among them was a sexual crime.
Especially in cases involving children, I felt skeptical about even confronting criminals.
And what's surprising is that the typical idea that sex offenders have is that they get more psychological satisfaction from completely destroying the victim's life rather than seeking their own satisfaction through sexual acts.
--- p.64

Since the mid-2000s, crimes related to mental illness have begun to increase, and while conducting research on this topic, I met with various experts.
Most of the experts' comments were unanimous.
In foreign countries, when symptoms of mental illness appear, people seek out specialists early on, and when someone in the family complains of excessive stress and begins to think and act strangely, treatment is quickly initiated with quick judgment, so treatment is not only completed in a short period of time, but also the person has the confidence to overcome it, making social adaptation easier.


However, in the case of our country, there are many cases where people seek out professionals after problems have arisen, not only because they are afraid of being labeled as mentally ill, but also because of various environmental factors.
Treatment is chosen as a post-mortem measure.
In this respect, the misunderstanding and stigma surrounding mental illness must be properly addressed.
--- p.149~150

Although incidents of youth forming groups to extort money and property from people and commit robbery are emerging as a social problem, juvenile crime must be carefully examined because it is accompanied by a loss of a sense of reality and self-esteem.
This is because when teenagers reach a point where they are harming themselves and find it difficult to feel more satisfaction from that situation, it can eventually lead to the extreme choice of giving up everything.
--- p.231

Publisher's Review
Why Criminal Profiling Is Necessary

Profiler: An expert who infers the suspect's physical condition, psychological state, and behavioral pattern based on collected evidence and suggests directions for the investigation.
-Source: National Institute of the Korean Language, Urimal Saem

Profiler is no longer an unfamiliar word.
It is frequently mentioned on TV and in the news, and has become a familiar word to us.
A person who analyzes crimes to identify the characteristics of criminals.
And such crime analysis is called profiling.
Crimes in Korean society have a clear causal relationship between the perpetrator and the victim, or a clear motive.
But as we passed through the 1990s, it took on a new appearance.
Beginning with the Hwaseong serial murders, crimes targeting unspecified victims occurred, and the criminal methods became more sophisticated.


While investigating crime scenes and collecting evidence is important, it has become necessary to study the tendencies of those who commit crimes.
This is how profilers emerged in our country.
Author Kwon Il-yong has been working as a profiler at the National Police Agency since 2000, playing a key role in the creation and growth of the police's first profiling team, and has been deployed to approximately 1,500 violent crime scenes over the past 30 years.
Just by looking at the crimes and characteristics of criminals in South Korea through his eyes, we can once again recognize the importance of profiling.

Why Crimes Should Be Classified as Cases

As countless crimes occur every day, the types of crimes are also diverse.
This book divides numerous crimes into seven, though somewhat broad, categories.
These are: Violent crimes that shook Korea (Case Study 1), sexual crimes and digital sexual crimes (Case Study 2), crimes committed without asking (Case Study 3), crimes committed by people with mental disorders (Case Study 4), hate crimes (Case Study 5), crimes committed by psychopaths and personality disorders (Case Study 6), and juvenile crimes (Case Study 7).


Criminals who commit the same type of crime have similar personalities, lifestyles, and ways of thinking.
So, we can identify criminals and examine the causes of crime through their criminal acts, attitudes, and behaviors in each case.
Understanding the characteristics of criminals, establishing theories about their crimes, and comparing and analyzing theories with practice will provide crucial clues for tracking and, furthermore, preventing crimes.

How to prevent crime

Seeing so many crimes makes me wonder.
Can crime really be prevented? Knowing the answer might offer some comfort in navigating modern society.
However, as crimes targeting unspecified victims continue to increase, no one can provide a perfect answer to the question of crime prevention.
But if we look closely at the crime, we can find some answers.


The sex offenders the author has met were in possession of large quantities of illegal child pornography.
Teenagers who gamble are more likely to develop other addictions because they seek to escape reality or increase their excitement.
In foreign countries, if a person with a mental illness is judged to be a threat of self-harm or harm to others, people around them and society actively intervene.
The greatest task given to society and to us is to understand the causes and characteristics of crime and to break the chain of crime.
Therefore, looking at why a crime was committed is the first step to preventing crime.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Publication date: November 30, 2021
- Page count, weight, size: 240 pages | 390g | 145*210*20mm
- ISBN13: 9788954761437
- ISBN10: 8954761437

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