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The Behavioral Science Unit (BSU) is the original name of a unit within the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Training Division at Quantico, Virginia, formed in response to the rise of sexual assault and homicide in the 1970s. The unit was usurped by the Critical Incident Response Group (CIRG) and renamed the Behavioral Research and Instruction Unit (BRIU) and currently is called the Behavioral Analysis Unit (5) (BAU-5) within the National Center for Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC). The BAU-5 currently works on developing research and then using the evidence-based results to provide training and improve consultation in the behavioral sciences—understanding who criminals are, how they think, why they do what they do—for the FBI and law enforcement communities.^[2]

History[edit]

1972[edit]

The FBI establishes the Behavioral Science Unit. The agents Patrick Mullany and Howard Teten form the unit, which was originally made of 10 agents, in response to the rising wave of sexual assault and homicide during the early 1970s.^[3]

1976[edit]

FBI Supervisory Special Agents John E. Douglas and Robert Ressler, members of the Behavioral Science Unit, begin work on compiling a centralized database on serial offenders.^[4] Douglas and Ressler traveled to prisons across the United States in order to interview serial predators and obtain information about:^[4]

• Motives
• Planning and preparation
• Details of the crimes
• Disposal of evidence (e.g. bodies and murder weapons)

1979[edit]

After interviewing thirty-six incarcerated serial predators, Agent Douglas and Agent Ressler complete their database on serial offenders.^[4]

FBI profilers begin working out in the field and providing consultations on active cases.^[4]

1984[edit]

The Behavioral Science Unit split into two units, one remaining the Behavioral Science Unit (BSU) and the Behavioral Science Investigative Support Unit (BSISU).^[3] The BSU is responsible for training cadets in behavioral science at the FBI National Academy in Quantico, VA, while the BSISU is responsible for in-field investigation and consultations.^[3]

1985[edit]

The National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC) is established in the Behavioral Science Unit at the FBI Academy.^[5] The NCAVC replaces the Behavioral Science Investigative Support Unit (BSISU), and works to give behavioral-based investigative and operational support, in regards to research and training, to federal, state, local, and international law enforcement agencies which are conducting investigations of unusual or repetitive violent crimes, terrorism, and other serious crimes.

The FBI creates the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (VICAP). VICAP is a system of records, containing Agents Douglas and Agent Ressler's completion of data of serial offenders, containing:^[2]

• Crime scene descriptions
• Victim and offender descriptive data (e.g. names and identifying features)
• Laboratory reports
• Criminal history records
• Court records
• News media references
• Crime scene photographs and statements.

VICAP data consists of cases involving homicides, missing persons, unidentified victims, and sexual assault.^[5] This information is collected to help profilers identify and match violent crime cases based on modus operandi, signature, and disorganization or organization of the crime scenes to then help investigators understand, track, and apprehend serial offenders.^[3]

1997[edit]

The Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) created as part of the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC).^[6]

2008[edit]

The Behavioral Science Unit opens the Evil Minds Research Museum, where the FBI houses artifacts from serial killers and other offenders.^[7]

2018[edit]

The Behavioral Science Unit remains a part of the FBI Academy under the official name of Behavioral Research and Instruction Unit.^[8]

Functions[edit]

The Behavioral Research and Instruction Unit is made up of agents with advanced degrees in the behavioral science disciplines of psychology, criminology, sociology, and conflict resolution.^[2] Today, members of the Behavioral Research and Instruction Unit provide programs of research, training courses, and consultation services in the behavioral sciences.^[2]

Training[edit]

FBI Academy[edit]

The Behavioral Research and Instruction Unit conducts specialized and applied training in behavioral-based topics for new FBI agents at the FBI Academy in Quantico, VA, including:^[2]

• Understanding Terrorist Mindsets and Police Response
• Countering Violent Extremism
• Relational Policing Practices
• Informative and Emerging Technologies
• Global Hostage-Taking
• Applied Behavioral Science and Criminology for Law Enforcement Operations
• Juvenile Crime and Behavior
• Conflict and Crisis Management: Theory and Practice
• Law Enforcement in the Future: Foreseeing, Managing, and Creating the 21st Century
• Managing Death Investigations
• Psycho-Social Behavior, Mindset, and Intelligence Trends of Violent Street and Prison Gangs
• Stress Management in Law Enforcement
• Problem Solving and Crisis Intervention
• Psychology of Perception and Memory
• Psychopathology

Law Enforcement[edit]

The Behavioral Research and Instruction Unit offers training in the behavioral sciences to domestic and international law enforcement officers, U.S. military officers, and other governmental and academic personnel.^[2] Any such law enforcement officers or agencies must submit a written request to their local FBI field office in order to set up a training session, which depends on The Behavioral Research and Instruction Unit's resource availability and FBI training priorities.^[2]

Research[edit]

Databases[edit]

The Behavioral Research and Instruction Unit develops and facilitates relevant programs of training, research, and consultation in the behavioral sciences for the FBI workforce, military intelligence, and law enforcement.^[8]

A necessary resource for this job is a central body of information and applied research in specialty areas on significant behavioral science issues.^[2] The Behavioral Research and Instruction Unit compiles research programs (such as VICAP) containing evidence to help improve behavior analyses; this evidence is reviewed by an outside board of scientific and academic experts to ensure that research is valid and is scientifically and academically accepted.^[5] These structured professional judgment tools are used to identify and measure human belief states, cognitive behavior, potential threat, or deception.^[2]

These research databases are used by the Behavioral Research and Instruction Unit for specialized and applied training courses and by intelligence analysts for in-field services.^[5]

Evil Minds Research Museum[edit]

The Evil Minds Research Museum, located in the FBI Academy, collects items and artifacts that were owned, created, or used by serial killers–ideally their personal possessions–that were seized through search warrants or donated by their families.^[7] All access to the museum is restricted to FBI agents, police personnel, and special guests of the Behavioral Research and Instruction Unit.^[7]

These personal possessions give FBI profilers a different perspective into a criminal's mindset.^[7] In this research, the FBI intends to develop a better understanding of offender motivation, personality, and intent in order to assist and enhance profiling investigative techniques.^[7]

Legacy[edit]

The Term 'Serial Killer'[edit]

FBI agent Ressler, a member of the original Behavioral Science Unit, is credited with coining the term 'serial killer' in the year 1974.^[5]

Ressler was lecturing at a British police academy in Bramshill, England, when he overheard an officer describing some crime (sexual assaults, robberies, arsons, burglaries, and homicides) as occurring in a series.^[9] Ressler said that the police officer's description reminded him of a movie-industry term “serial adventures”—short episodic films featured in theaters on Saturday afternoons during the 1930s and 1940s which relied on cliffhanger endings to draw audiences back each week.^[9] Cliffhanger endings ensure that a single 'serial adventure' never has a satisfactory conclusion, and as Ressler said each ending built off of the previous episode's tension.^[9]

Ressler believed that, similar to 'serial adventures,' the conclusion of each crime in the series only increased the criminal's tensions and desires.^[9] The crime never satisfies the criminal's ideal fantasy, so serial criminals are instead agitated toward repeating their crimes in an unending “serial” cycle, hence the terms 'serial killer' and 'serial rapist'.^[5]

Criminal Profiling[edit]

Criminal profiling, also known as offender profiling, is the process of viewing a crime from a behavioral perspective in order to identify behavioral tendencies, personality traits, geographic location, demographics, and biographical features of an offender. ^[5]

One of the earliest recorded criminal profiles was assembled by Metropolitan Police in Whitechapel, London, during the Jack the Ripper case.^[4] Upon request from the Police Department, the Police surgeon Thomas Bond offered a basic profile of Jack the Ripper based on his post mortem examination of the canonical victims.^[4] Based on the killer's anatomical understandings, the surgical skill of the brutal mutilations, as well as the sexual nature of the murders, Bond surmised that the serial killer (who later came to be known as Jack the Ripper) was a male with basic medical knowledge harboring misogynistic rage.^[4]

The first known successful (though only semi-accurate) criminal profile was the one compiled by the psychiatrist James Brussel on New York City's Mad Bomber in 1956.^[10] After 16 years of fruitless investigation into bombings cases, the New York Police Department (NYPD) requested the assistance of Brussel.^[10] Though the media dubbed Brussel 'The Sherlock Holmes of the Couch,' many of Brussel's predictions related to physical and biological descriptors—that he wore a buttoned-up double-breasted suit or that he was a foreigner—had been inaccurate.^[10] Some psychological aspects of Brussel's profile that were based on Brussel's experience and expertise were accurate—that the suspect suffered from paranoia for example—and assisted the NYPD in their investigation.^[10]

Though criminal profiling dates further back than the Behavioral Science Unit, it was the unit's adoption of psychological profiling techniques along with Agents Ressler and Douglas' work interviewing serial killers across the United States and compiling a database holding this information that established criminal profiling as an acceptable investigative tool.^[4] Prior to their work, criminal profiling had never been used during an active investigation; instead it was often a last resort in cold cases.^[4]

Today, there are multiple techniques and methods of criminal profiling.^[8] The FBI's method of criminal profiling, used by the Behavioral Analysis Unit and taught by the Behavioral Research and Instruction Unit at the FBI Academy, is known as criminal investigative analysis (CIA).^[4] There are 6 steps involved in the process of creating a criminal profile with the method of criminal investigative analysis:^[8]

• Profiling inputs
• Decision process models
• Crime assessment
• Criminal profiling
• Investigation
• Apprehension

In popular culture[edit]

• Criminal Minds^[1] follows a team of BAU profilers who analyze and apprehend unknown subjects (UNSUB).
• The 2017 Netflix television series Mindhunter,^[1] dramatizes the origin of the BSU, though the story is set in 1977.^[11]
• In the NBC television series Hannibal, the FBI profiler Will Graham is recruited by the head of the BSU to assist in the investigations of prolific serial killers.

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References[edit]

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2. ^ ^abcdefghi'Federal Bureau of Investigation - FBI Academy - Behavioral Science'. www2.fbi.gov. Retrieved 2018-09-19.
3. ^ ^abcdDeNevi, Don; Campbell, John H. Into the Minds of Madmen: How the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit Revolutionized Crime Investigation. Prometheus Books. ISBN9781615922468.
4. ^ ^abcdefghij'The Birth of Modern Day Criminal Profiling'. Psychology Today. Retrieved 2018-09-20.
5. ^ ^abcdefg'Behavioral Analysts'. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Retrieved 2018-09-20.
6. ^'Fact Sheet - Criminal Profiling Program | Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives'. www.atf.gov. Retrieved 2018-09-20.
7. ^ ^abcde'Behavioral Science Unit – Part II'. fbi.gov. Retrieved 2018-09-20.
8. ^ ^abcd'FBI — BRIU'. 2015-10-10. Archived from the original on 2015-10-10. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
9. ^ ^abcd'Origin of the Term 'Serial Killer''. Psychology Today. Retrieved 2018-09-20.
10. ^ ^abcd'Criminal Profiling: The Original Mind Hunters'. Psychology Today. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
11. ^https://www.netflix.com/search?q=mindhunter&jbv=80114855&jbp=0&jbr=0

Registered Behavior Technician Training Program

The Registered Behavioral Technician (RBT) training program is based on the Registered Behavior Technician Task List (2^nded.) and is designed to meet the 40-hour training requirement for the RBT certificate. The program is offered independent of the BACB. Once registered, you must complete the course within 180 days.

Course Format

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The RBT Program consists of 12 online modules, each containing a narrated presentation and a 10 question exam at the end of each module. Successful completion of the course requires sequential completion of each module and exam with at least 80% accuracy. You have 2 attempts at each exam. Failure to pass the exams will result in failing the course. Upon successful completion of the course you will receive a certificate of completion. Once all modules are successfully completed, you will receive a certificate of completion indicating the 40-hour training was based on the RBT Task List (2^nded.), which will be needed to meet the additional requirements (see below) to attain the RBT certificate.

RBT Credential Process

In order for you to obtain the RBT credential through the BACBA® you must complete the following steps:

1. Be at least 18 years of age
2. Have a high school diploma or equivalent
3. Pass a criminal background check to be completed within 180 days of the RBT application
4. Complete the 40-hour RBT training course (this course)
   • Must be completed within 180 days of the registration date
   • You must receive a score of 80% or above in each of the assessments
   • You will receive a certificate at the end of this course
5. Locate a BCBA to complete the RBT competency assessment with you:
   • RBT competency assessment
   • If necessary you can locate BCBAs via the BACB website
   • The BCBA must sign off on the RBT competency and should not abbreviate any of the information
   • This person will also be the Responsible Certificant
6. Apply (and pay the application fee) for the RBT credential
7. Sign up (and pay the exam fee), complete, and pass the RBT exam

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For more information visit the BACB website.

Pricing

The USF/ABA program offers discounted rates based on affiliation status. For anyone who is interested in getting the discounted price please contact Tracy-Ann Gilbert-Smith for instructions and to submit proof of your affiliation. Students enrolled in the USF Master's in ABA program, both on-campus or online, should contact Dr. Catia Cividini-Motta directly.

Standard Price Non-USF affiliation: $200 per person (Group Discount available for 10 or more individuals: $150 per person)

Affiliation discounts:

• USF students in ABA Master's program (online or on-campus): free - must contact Dr. Catia Cividini-Motta directly to enroll in course via Canvas
• USF students in ABA Minor program: $50 per person (no group discount available)
• USF students (not in a Master's/Undergraduate ABA program) or employees of our practicum sites: $100 per person (Group Discount available for 10 or more individuals: $75 per person)
• USF graduates: $100 per person

PLEASE NOTE: Charges are non-refundable and will appear on your bank's statement as 'Children's Mental Health Network.'

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• Software: No specialized software is needed, however please ensure that you have the latest Adobe Flash and Shockwave players installed.
• Audio: Speakers (internal or external) or headset speakers is required.

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