Les composantes du crime violent : une nouvelle méthode d'analyse comportementale de l'homicide et de sa scène

The analysis of violent crime could be performed through six fundamental criteria which are violence, emotion, crime-process, sexual-aspect, relationship and circumstances. Each of these components includes several items such as the offender's affect, the characteristics of the context, the crime itself and the global modus operandi. The main items of theses components are different, depending on the three following steps: Before, during and after the crime. The Behavioural Analysis Unit of the French Gendarmerie Nationale is currently carrying out an experiment on an original criminal profiling method, embracing all these items. Moreover, if the offender's identity is discovered and if he's arrested, this new tool, equally used for behaviour, crime and crime scene analysis, is dedicated to help psychiatrists determining the offender's mental state during his crime process.