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Lecture 1: Crime: The Moment Someone Else's Business Becomes Yours
- Criminal psychology knowledge that is essential to our time

How Everyday Life Became a Crime Scene
The War on Gangsters and the Emergence of Profilers
Serial Killers, Psychopaths of Shock and Fear
The Emergence of Instant Attacks and Random Crimes

The Banality of Evil: Who Controls the Situation?
How is aggression defined: Intentional behavior intended to harm others
When and why do we become aggressive?
Understanding Aggression: When Everyday Frustration Leads to Aggression

How people and situations influence each other
Aggression in human-situational interactions
Why do people react differently in the same situation?

Chapter 2: Reading the Heart of Evil Can Prevent Crime
- Developing an eye for understanding the psychology of criminals and preventing crime.

How Evil Evolves
Self-Rationalization: Blaming Injustice: Crimes of the Uninvited
Psychological Possession of the Other: The Harmful Effects of Distorted Perceptions
The swamp of addiction, the helplessness that cannot be escaped, leads to crime
Organized crime that is no different from serial murder
Future Crime: Evolution and Prevention

5 Useful Criminal Psychology Facts to Know
Heuristics: The Trap of Simple Decision Making
Confirmation bias: see what you want to see and believe what you want to believe.
The Noble Person Theory: Is It My Fault or Someone Else's?
Criminal tendencies revealed when self-efficacy is at rock bottom
Parapsychology, my mind that I can't do anything about

Things you can only see when you read the mind
Why do children feel guilty?
The illusion that it's because of love
Time to take care of myself

3rd Lecture: A Strange Tale of Villains in Modern Society
- The types of crimes being updated today

How does an evil heart grow?
Child abuse: the cycle of violence where victims become perpetrators
Animal abuse: A perverse choice to resolve conflicts
Dissociative Identity Disorder: Another Me Within Me

Who and why is manipulating me?
The shackles of violence that rule me
The devil's whispers that shake my life
A cunning hand disguised as kindness

How they take advantage of the situation
Serial murders using fear and terror
The clever and persistent psychological warfare of psychopaths
The distorted psychology of psychopaths
Culturally Influenced Characteristics of Crime
The evolution of digital crime techniques
Cybercrime infiltrates our daily lives
Catch the cybercriminals

Seminar 4: Big Data and AI: The Future of Profiling
In this age of chaos, crime-fighting methods must also change.

Safety devices that protect you and me
Convergence and synergy of cutting-edge technologies
AI vs. Human Profiling Showdown
When anxiety eats away at the soul
FOMO syndrome, anxiety and fear of being left out
Why People Are So Susceptible to Fake News

How Should Individuals and Society Connect in an Age of Chaos?
Children driven into criminal situations
Establishing self-esteem and self-image
How to Deal with Crime in Chaotic Times

Controlling the Mind: Eliminating the Criminal Environment Within
Typical gaslighting and grooming tactics
The psychology of people who fall into cults

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“How did everyday life become a crime scene?”
To protect me and to protect each other
A Criminal Psychology Class You Must Know in Our Time

Recently, dramas that incorporate crime or profiling, such as [Juvenile Justice], [Those Who Read the Mind of Evil], and [Knowing Bros], as well as entertainment programs that analyze crime, have gained popularity, and programs with crime as their subject matter have become a trend in various media.
What exactly is the reason? Professor Kwon Il-yong, a first-generation profiler in South Korea and a professor at Dongguk University's Graduate School of Police and Judicial Sciences, explains, "It could be a kind of fear that a 'crime' I thought had nothing to do with me is secretly approaching me."
In fact, various crimes that defy common sense are occurring one after another in our society these days, and as time passes, the methods become more sophisticated, so anxiety and fear that we could be exposed to such crimes at any time, as well as distrust of one another, are deepening.
Crime is no longer someone else's problem, but has become 'our' problem.
In order to prevent and deal with crime that has permeated our daily lives, the first step is to face the nature and circumstances of the crime and understand its psychology.

In "Why I Read Murderers' Minds," the most common crimes occurring today are analyzed based on various studies and theories in psychology and sociology.
Knowledge of psychological and sociological theories does not guarantee complete crime prevention, but to create a safe society for all, it is necessary to understand the thoughts and judgments that lead perpetrators to commit crimes.

In addition to the five basic theories necessary for analyzing crime—heuristics, confirmation bias, attribution theory, self-efficacy, and abnormal psychology—this book also covers cases in which unresolved negative emotions, such as aggression and guilt, lead to crime.
This is a way of examining the gaslighting and grooming crimes of pseudo-religious groups, which make you think, “How can you believe such absurd doctrines and claims?” through the psychological mechanisms of heuristics and confirmation bias.
Through this, we can understand the psychology of the criminal, the reasons why they become involved in crime, and even the feelings of the victim.

The author hopes that the various topics raised in this book will lead to greater research and discussion on preventing crime in our society, emphasizing that “if we don’t all work together, anyone can become a victim.”
While recalling a brutal and horrific crime is difficult for anyone, understanding the social and environmental context in which it occurs and urging understanding and concern for the victims can be the solution to preventing crimes that devastate our lives and protecting each other.


“The moment you start to doubt whether this is a crime, you can escape from it!”
Beyond serial murders to digital crimes
Evolving Crime: How Should Individuals and Society Respond?

Today, crime is evolving in increasingly sophisticated ways.
To properly recognize and overcome the silently creeping crime, we must all put our heads together and address it.
The author details the criminal landscape in Korean society, from organized crime, which involves forming accomplices and committing crimes in a planned manner, to serial murder and digital crime.
In particular, we diagnosed the causes of crimes that frequently occur today, such as gaslighting, grooming sexual crimes, dating violence, and child abuse, which are crimes that relieve the feelings of anger experienced through emotional violence, and sought preventive methods to protect oneself from them.


For example, there has been a noticeable increase in the crime of gaslighting, which involves exerting control by cleverly manipulating the psychology or circumstances of others to make them doubt themselves.
It has gone beyond the level that can be overlooked as 'something that can happen in a hierarchical relationship' and has recently become a serious crime that can even lead to someone's death.
These gaslighting crimes require more help from those around them than any other incident.
The reason why victims cannot escape even after being victimized is because the perpetrator is manipulating their psychology, not because of the victim's problem.
In particular, gaslighters focus on keeping the victim's experiences and interactions hidden from others, so the victim cannot receive help from those around them and their relationships gradually dissipate.
That's why, if you notice even the slightest sign, you should try to help as much as possible.


In addition to individual responses, social and institutional changes are also needed.
The problem with this type of emotional violence is that it is difficult to define clearly.
Like the stalking crime bill that was passed after 20 years, we need to clearly distinguish and define the crime and make it a subject of public discussion.
In addition, social safety nets such as crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) techniques, which redesign the environment by remodeling houses with structures that are easily broken into and installing brighter lights in parks, are also important.

"Why I Read the Mind of a Murderer" is not simply a book containing investigation logs or profiling cases.
Having dedicated his life to profiling over 1,000 criminals over the past 30 years, the author speaks in a gentle yet persuasive tone about the importance of education to change our complacent perceptions of crime, the need for new investigative techniques, recidivism prevention programs, and changes in laws and sentencing standards.
He also says that it is important to eliminate the 'criminal environment in my mind'.
We must overcome anxiety and fear and restore trust in each other as members of society.
Even now, somewhere, your family, friends, or colleagues may be falling victim to clever tactics and traps.
Through this book, you will empathize with the pain of victims and gain a preventative guide to protecting each other so that such tragic crimes never happen again.