John Edward Douglas, FBI agent and criminal profiler
John Edward Douglas (born 18 June 1945 in Brooklyn, New York), is
the son of Jack and Dolores Douglas. He is a former special agent
with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), one of the
first criminal profilers, and criminal psychology author. A veteran
of four years in the United States Air Force (1966-1970), he holds
several degrees: B.S. (Eastern New Mexico University); M.S.
(University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Ed.S. Educational Specialist
(University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) and a doctorate in Adult
Education (Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida).
Douglas has joined College Tonight's board of advisers.
Douglas joined the FBI in 1970 and his first assignment was in
Detroit, Michigan. In the field, he served as a sniper on the local
FBI SWAT team and later became a hostage negotiator. He transferred
to the FBI's Behavioral Sciences Unit (BSU) in 1977 where he taught
hostage negotiation and applied criminal psychology at the FBI
Academy in Quantico, Virginia to new FBI special agents, field
agents, and police officers from all over the United States. He
created and managed the FBI's Criminal Profiling Program and was
later promoted to unit chief of the Investigative Support Unit, a
division of the FBI’s National Center for the Analysis of Violent
Crime (NCAVC).
While traveling around the country providing
instruction to local police, Douglas and his colleague Robert
Ressler began interviewing serial killers and other violent sex
offenders at various prisons. He subsequently published a book,
Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives, followed by the Crime
Classification Manual (CCM). Douglas later received two Thomas
Jefferson Awards for academic excellence from the University of
Virginia for his work on the study.
John Douglas pioneered
"criminal profiling." At the time of criminal profiling's
conception, Douglas claimed to have been doubted and criticized by
his own colleagues until both police and the FBI realized that he
had developed an extremely useful tool for the capture of criminals.
Douglas examined crime scenes and created profiles of the
perpetrators, describing their habits and attempting to predict
their next moves. In cases that his work helped to snare the
criminals, he built strategies for interrogating and prosecuting
them, as well. Douglas was instrumental in the capture of numerous
serial killers, and for years he attempted to catch the Green River
Killer in the Seattle, Washington metro area, which nearly cost him
his life, when his stressed and overworked body was unable to fight
off viral encephalitis.
Following his retirement from the
FBI in 1995, Douglas has gained international fame as the author of
a series of books detailing his life tracking serial killers, and
has appeared numerous times on television.
Douglas has also
written text books for criminal profiling classes. He is the author,
along with Mark Olshaker, of several books. There is also a
screenplay being written for the book, Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's
Elite Serial Crime Unit.
Douglas was married to Pamela
Elizabeth Modica (Pamela Douglas). They have three children: Lauren,
Erika, and John Jr. "Jed." Currently, he lives in the Washington D.C
suburbs.
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