ABSTRACT
A person’s profile is a biographical essay of noteworthy characteristics and achievements.[1] Criminal personality profiling is an educated guess at identifying specific offender characteristics for specific crimes.[2] For purposes of identifying FD/FDP behavior, profiling of general classification of offender personality is based upon observations of physical and psychological behavior coupled with recognition and interpretation of evidence. Alignment of anyone within a criminal profile grouping is not prima facie evidence of responsibility for criminal acts. Responsibility is proven through avenues of probable cause developed from evidence establishment. A profiler may combine brainstorming, intuition, and educated guesswork guided by practical experience to arrive at hypothetical formulations.[3]
FD/FDP behavior as it relates to the delivery system of criminal abuse, neglect, and homicide or the output of those primary offenses viewed as secondary victimization (fraud, monetary civil maneuverings, interpersonal influential strategies) is often an indirect behavioral pattern. The distinction between FD/FDP offender profile identification and that of other criminal personality profiling rests within the interpretation of commonly dismissed or unrecognized behavioral traits. These traits are generally not recognized as catalysts for criminal behavior because they are accepted behavior. FD/FDP offenders know this and hide in the periphery of what society accepts as baseline normal activity. These accepted actions/behaviors, however, serve the FD/FDP offender in a new way by formulating an exposed barrier that hides beneath it the reality of authentic abuse. FDP profiling is unique because the identity of the suspected offender is generally known and it is the offender’s behavior or actions that are examined. These actions are guarded/ cloaked in seemingly legitimate actions, and it is quite difficult to differentiate reality from feigned affect.
