Criminal Profiling
Introduction
Criminal profiling is a terminology coined to put a liable on criminals that commit a range of crimes. It helps give off information in regards to criminal investigations by narrowing suspects, providing tips to unsolved cases, and most importantly identify who the criminal is. This method is widely used amongst investigators, behavioral scientists, criminologists, and forensic psychologists. This process is very valuable to the criminal justice field by eliminating suspects and using the leads to arrest in most cases. It is not a perfect science but it gives the detectives a starting point in order to weed out the cuprite that committed the crime or may have leaks to the crime. This paper is going to analyze …show more content…
The sole purpose was to identify and destroy witches. This was the first publication document that had a system to approach guilty individuals and make interpretations about them. Later on in the 1700s, Franz Gall established the science of phrenology, which is liable to assess a person’s psychological characteristics through techniques. Gall believed by studying a structural skull the determination of one’s mental capacity and personality could be inferred. Gall continue to analyze the structure of the brain by formulating that it had many mental functions and the bumps and contours explains personality characteristics. Utilizing the science of phrenology Gall considered criminal involvement by arguing that a “murder organ” was present in murders. The work was Lombroso continue by categorizing criminal behavior into: born, insane, or criminaloid. The works of many others like Dr. George Phillips and James A. Brussel brought forth a different insight to criminal profiling by focusing on the crime scene in order to gather a description of the suspect based how they reconstructed the crime and examine the wounds of the victim. Criminal profiling began to expand in the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) Behavioural Science Unit (BSU) in 1972 after assist with several serial and homicide cases (Woodworth & Porter,
Introduction
Criminal profiling is a terminology coined to put a liable on criminals that commit a range of crimes. It helps give off information in regards to criminal investigations by narrowing suspects, providing tips to unsolved cases, and most importantly identify who the criminal is. This method is widely used amongst investigators, behavioral scientists, criminologists, and forensic psychologists. This process is very valuable to the criminal justice field by eliminating suspects and using the leads to arrest in most cases. It is not a perfect science but it gives the detectives a starting point in order to weed out the cuprite that committed the crime or may have leaks to the crime. This paper is going to analyze …show more content…
The sole purpose was to identify and destroy witches. This was the first publication document that had a system to approach guilty individuals and make interpretations about them. Later on in the 1700s, Franz Gall established the science of phrenology, which is liable to assess a person’s psychological characteristics through techniques. Gall believed by studying a structural skull the determination of one’s mental capacity and personality could be inferred. Gall continue to analyze the structure of the brain by formulating that it had many mental functions and the bumps and contours explains personality characteristics. Utilizing the science of phrenology Gall considered criminal involvement by arguing that a “murder organ” was present in murders. The work was Lombroso continue by categorizing criminal behavior into: born, insane, or criminaloid. The works of many others like Dr. George Phillips and James A. Brussel brought forth a different insight to criminal profiling by focusing on the crime scene in order to gather a description of the suspect based how they reconstructed the crime and examine the wounds of the victim. Criminal profiling began to expand in the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) Behavioural Science Unit (BSU) in 1972 after assist with several serial and homicide cases (Woodworth & Porter,