ISSS 3852 - Innovation in Reluctant Organizations: Profiling in the FBI

Examines paradigm innovation (when an organization upends basic assumptions about core organizational purposes) with particular emphasis on the ways policing has been resistant to innovation. Focuses on the introduction of psychological profiling as a tool to capture a new class of antisocial criminals. Centers discussion on Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions to understand the success of profiling as an illuminating example.

Credits: 3