Mindhunter: Inside The Fbi's Elite Serial Crime

Written by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker, “Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit” was published in 1995. Mindhunter was New York Times best seller. The book is about John Douglas’s twenty-five year career with the Investigative Support Unit. Also, the book is about some of the cases John Douglas investigated. “Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit” is a book about John Douglas and his twenty-five year career as a special agent until he retires in 1995. The book begins with John Douglas discussing the various jobs he had while growing up. John was a bouncer for a club and would check ID’s. While being a bouncer, he would be profiling people in line. He would be watching how they were acting. A technique he would

In 1969, John was discharged from the Air Force, where he started his masters degree in psychology. John lived on seven dollars a week in a basement. In 1970, John married Pam and they honey mooned in the Pocono’s. In the fall of the 1970s John met Frank Harris. Soon after Frank offered John a job with the FBI and John accepted. John was offered a probationary spot with the FBI. Later at the end of the year, John received a telegram telling him to come to Washington to start a fourteen week training time with the FBI. Then in 1971 John went to Detroit where he was assigned to the Reactive Crimes Unit. Then later transferred to Milwaukee field office. When John arrived there he began to work on his masters degree at the University of Wisconsin. While still Milwaukee John made the SWAT team and was assigned sniper. In SWAT, he was suggested for a two week hostage negotiation course in Quantico, Virginia. After the course was finished John trained bank tellers on what to do in scary situations. John even taught them how to handle money exploding packages. In 1976, John left Milwaukee for an assignment as a councilor for the 107th National Academy Session at Quantico. While John was there he graduated from the 107th Session of the National Academy. While John was a councilor he was responsible for one section of students. In 1978 he joined the Behavioral Science Unit. Where he taught applied Psychology.

Robert Hansen is responsible for killing seventeen and went one women. John theorized that the killer would be an experienced hunter with low self-esteem and a history of being rejected by women, and would feel the need to keep "souvenirs" of his murders. The souvenirs he would keep would be the victim's jewelry or even body parts. He came to suspect Hansen upon learning of Hansen's hunting skill and socially isolated childhood.This case set a legal precedent in 1983 when psychological profiling was used as the main basis for issuing search warrants on Hansen's property. John was contacted by local police. John did profiling on Hansen. I chose this case to write about because, I am so curios on how someone could hunt another human being down. I am baffled at this case. The steps Hansen did to get his victims and how he killed them is something I have never even heard about in my life. This case makes me curios and makes me want to learn the mind of Hansen on why he did such things. This book by John Douglas is a great teaching tool for criminal justice classes. John Douglas discuss’s how he profiles, what he is looking for and what specific details play an important role. Profiling is an essential tool to crime analysis. Through behavior they are able to predict the suspects next moves. That alone helps solves crimes. Criminal justice students who learn this technique can help save lives all over. They are learning the minds of a suspect