Crime Scene Profiling

Topic

Crime Scene Profiling

Instructions

What are the central arguments in the reading?
What data sources and/or concepts does the author use to support the argument?
What other lines of reasoning or thinking occur to you as a result of reading this selection? What is it about the chapters that interest you?
What are the strengths and weaknesses of the articles or book chapters? If you
were studying this issue, what would you have done similarly or differently?

Answer preview

Profiling is the reviewed outline of appropriate behavior and character of a criminal (Douglas, Ressler, Burges, & Hartman, 1986). Practiced from the fifteenth century when “Maleus Malefic arum” profiled and explained the nature of witches who threatened their community. The process was also used in profiling of Dictator Adolf Hitler during the Second World War by an analyst Walter Langer. The notion of criminal profiling has generated interest, debate, and misunderstanding in the process in which individual, actions, conduct and physical uniqueness of a criminal can be secondary from his control in the commissioning of an offense (Kocsis, Totowa & Humana, 2006).

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