Problems of Forensic Sciences 2010 Vol. 81 (LXXXI) 41-56
NEW AREAS OF COOPERATION BETWEEN INVESTIGATIVE PSYCHOLOGISTS AND MEDICAL EXAMINERS IN PROFILING OF UNKNOWN OFFENDERS
Filip BOLECHAŁA 1, Józef K. GIEROWSKI2, 3
1Department of Forensic Medicine, Collegium Medicum, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
2Department of Forensic Psychology, Institute of Forensic Research, Kraków, Poland
3Department of Psychiatry, Collegium Medicum, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Streszczenie
The applied and interdisciplinary nature of contemporary forensic sciences causes one to view all attempts to subordinate wide and complicated knowledge to one scientific discipline with a certain reserve, and even anxiety. However, one can not skip over certain historical events and conditions, which have ascribed a special, some times dominating role to forensic medicine, defining directions of development of contemporary forensic sciences. In the present work, the authors wish to present and emphasise the significance of collaboration of psychologists, psychiatrists and medical examiners (forensic medical doctors) in investigative psychology, especially in the matter of profiling of perpetrators of aggressive acts. This is a creditable return to a model of cooperation between disciplines historically originating from the same area of knowledge. In a modernised form, drawing on all contemporary achievements of these sciences, their collaboration results in great and unquestionable advantages both when hunting criminals and preventing crime.
Słowa kluczowe
Investigative psychology; Interdisciplinary cooperation between medico-legal experts and psychologists; Complex opinion.