Fifteen years ago criminals were thought as acts of the devil with no purpose in life. People believed criminals made whole hearted decisions to do wrong, simply because they wanted to. In today’s society criminals are not as feared as they once were. Some watch them on their favorite television show every Monday night. However, everything is not always how it seems on television. The effort it takes investigators to profile criminals is way more complicated than television perceives it.
Television makes Criminal Profiling seem like the life to have. They perceive it to never have any problems and always have a solution. The teams fly around the country on a jet catching bad guys on the run. Their lives seem perfect, profilers are portrayed …show more content…
Deductive analysis, in contrast, follows and is limited to the evidence left at the scene of the crime by the offender. It assumes that the crime scene is a canvas and the criminal is the artist and that his actions are his “artwork” that reflects his internal characteristics, needs and fantasies. It requires a greater understanding of human behavior, criminal thinking and motivation as well as a certain level of artistry of the profilers themselves. It generally produces fewer leads (at least initially) than inductive profiling but is often more accurate. A common goal of profiling is to help investigators examine evidence from the crime scenes and victim and witness reports to develop an offender description …show more content…
Just as soon as the murder happens they are already uncovering witnesses and evidence that’s was not at the crime scene. This causes a public impression that criminal investigators can take a bunch of evidence and throw it into a magic machine and then it spits out and solves the crime within an hour, if not next week. In real life those things take weeks and sometimes months to uncover. The speed with which information gets back on television shows is nowhere near reality. Watching a murder be solved on television seems like easy work but actually it takes a lot of teamwork, time, and hard work. Some cases can take years and years to find anything to help find the criminals. Cases have been unsolved for fifty or more years without any leads to who committed the
Television makes Criminal Profiling seem like the life to have. They perceive it to never have any problems and always have a solution. The teams fly around the country on a jet catching bad guys on the run. Their lives seem perfect, profilers are portrayed …show more content…
Deductive analysis, in contrast, follows and is limited to the evidence left at the scene of the crime by the offender. It assumes that the crime scene is a canvas and the criminal is the artist and that his actions are his “artwork” that reflects his internal characteristics, needs and fantasies. It requires a greater understanding of human behavior, criminal thinking and motivation as well as a certain level of artistry of the profilers themselves. It generally produces fewer leads (at least initially) than inductive profiling but is often more accurate. A common goal of profiling is to help investigators examine evidence from the crime scenes and victim and witness reports to develop an offender description …show more content…
Just as soon as the murder happens they are already uncovering witnesses and evidence that’s was not at the crime scene. This causes a public impression that criminal investigators can take a bunch of evidence and throw it into a magic machine and then it spits out and solves the crime within an hour, if not next week. In real life those things take weeks and sometimes months to uncover. The speed with which information gets back on television shows is nowhere near reality. Watching a murder be solved on television seems like easy work but actually it takes a lot of teamwork, time, and hard work. Some cases can take years and years to find anything to help find the criminals. Cases have been unsolved for fifty or more years without any leads to who committed the