The FBI’s Behavioral Profiling for Writers

The FBI’s Behavioral Profiling for Writers

2 Hour Live ZOOM Session

Wondering how to apply the method of behavioral profiling to your crime fiction? Former FBI supervisory special agent Mark Safarik and Dr. Katherine Ramsland will guide you with cases that model how it’s done. Behavioral analysts evaluate complex violent crimes from the behavioral, forensic, and physical evidence in order to understand what happened, how those events unfolded, and why the offender might have engaged in these activities. The goal is to assist with strategies for a successful resolution. We demonstrate how to identify items that yield useful behavioral information, and how to resolve ambiguity that challenge linkage analysis. Authors can gain ideas for character development and for sharpening behavioral clues in their scenes for red herrings, plot twists, and investigative authenticity.

Class link will be sent prior to the event, and after the class you'll have access to rewatch for 30 days.

YOUR INSTRUCTORS

Mark E. Safarik was a member of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s elite Behavioral Analysis Unit. He established himself as an internationally recognized expert in the analysis of violent criminal behavior. Safarik’s law enforcement career spans over 30 years. He served 23 years with the FBI, the last 12 as a criminal profiler. He has lectured around the world, sharing his expertise in the analysis of homicide and complex crime scene behavior with over 20,000 personnel from police chiefs to violent crime investigators, prosecutors, medical examiners and other professionals. He currently consults with law enforcement, attorneys, universities, writers, television producers, and foreign government entities. Safarik has a graduate degree from Boston University and is adjunct faculty at Boston College. He has conducted internationally renowned research on the sexual assault and homicide of elder females and received the prestigious Jefferson Medal from the University of Virginia. He is a member of the highly respected Vidocq Society. He has published articles, and book chapters on his research and work, and has appeared on numerous television programs to discuss his cases and analyses. He has three cold case television series both in the US and Europe, and he consulted for CSI: Las Vegas, Bones, and The Blacklist.

Dr. Katherine Ramsland teaches forensic psychology and behavioral criminology in the graduate program at DeSales University, where she is Professor Emerita. She has appeared as an expert on more than 250 crime documentaries, consulted on CSI, Bones, and The Alienist, and was an executive producer on Murder House Flip, A&E’s docuseries Confession of a Serial killer: BTK, and HBO/ID’s docuseries The Serial Killer’s Apprentice. The author of more than 2,000 articles and 74 books, including Confession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer, The Serial Killer’s Apprentice, The Psychology of Death Investigations, Forensic Investigation: Methods from Experts, The Mind of a Murderer, and How to Catch a Killer, she pens a regular blog for Psychology Today. She consults for coroners and presents workshops to law enforcement and attorneys. Ramsland has also written two crime fiction series, one of which is based on a female forensic psychologist who consults on death.