Habitual offender

Profiling simply defines the use of information from the crime scene to describe the offender’s behaviour while committing the act of crime. (Criminal Psychology: A Beginner’s Guide, p. 6 to 7) Criminal profiling or offender profiling is one of the used techniques in identifying a criminal in several cases besides scouring for physical evidences like blood, murder weapons, and many more. It has already been used in various scenarios when it comes to solving cases pertaining…

Frank Miller's Sin City: The Hard Goodbye tells the story of Marv, a psychotic, disfigured, ex-military killer living in a decadent and corrupt city. Marv is framed for the murder of beautiful prostitute Goldie, and feeling a connection with her though they only shared one night together, Marv goes on a search for her killer. Marv is both hunter and hunted as he traces the murder up through Sin City to a corrupt cardinal and a cannibalistic serial killer preying on the city's prostitutes. Marv…

Criminal Psychology Introduction: Criminal psychology is the study of the intentions and behaviours of criminals. Criminologists apply psychology to crime in order for them to uncover the criminals reasoning for committing the crime. This is not a job that many people know about but I believe that it is a very important job so that the police and other agencies have information about what and who they are dealing with. I had a short limited amount of prior knowledge about this topic but from…

Have you ever wanted to be that person on the crime shows, the person that who interrogates the suspects and proves them guilty? Forensic Psychology is the intersection between psychology and the the justice system. Essentially, Forensic Psychology involves applying psychology in the field of criminal investigation and the law. Forensic Psychologists are involved in both criminal and civil matters (custody disputes, insurance claims, and civil lawsuits). Forensic psychologists evaluate…

Leonard Peltier is an imprisoned Native American who lived on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. After an incident On February 27, 1973, members of the American Indian Movement, or AIM, together with a number of local and traditional Native Americans began their seventy-two-day occupation of Wounded Knee. Their goal was to protest injustices against their tribes, violations of the many treaties, and current abuses and repression against their people. The United States government responded with a…

Before the 19th century, witness testimonies were viewed as the ‘smoking gun’ during court proceedings. In the 1930s, French criminologist and forensics pioneer Dr. Edmond Locard outlined his theory of exchange in the American Journal of Police Science (Solanki, 2013). Locard’s exchange principle was derived from the concept that if one makes contact with another person, place or thing, physical materials are inevitably exchanged. Therefore, when applied to a crime scene, a criminal cannot…

Ten people in the Wichita, Kansas area between the years 1974 and 1991 were brutally murdered by Dennis Lynn Rader a.k.a the BTK Strangler. After years of fear and horror the BTK Strangler was identified and captured by police. This would not have been possible if the police investigating murders in the area were unable to connect the killings, create a profile of the killer, and then use that information to build evidence against Dennis Rader. The first and arguably the most important step in…

demonstrated that inaccurate offender profiles discourage the police to arrest the offenders. Next, Craig (2014) introduced that offender profiling is a type of technique in the police investigation. Currently, profiling becomes a prioritized tool of solving a serial offender case. Additionally, serial murder cases mean that the police must fit a particular suspect in a large amount of suspects. However, if offender profiling is confounded, it is quite difficult to conform offenders. The current…

Theodore Robert Bundy or widely known as Ted Bundy was a notorious serial killer in the 1970s, in which he raped and murdered young women in several states. Report states that his murder episodes begin in the 1975 when he moved away from his home to Salt Lake City (McCall, 1980). It is said that he lured young women into his car before driving to a secluded place, he will raped them before beating them to death (McCall, 1980). His victims were usually young women from ordinary household (Gehrke,…

analysis due to the similarities the offender leaves in each scene or on the victim. Secondly, there is Personation or otherwise known as a signature, it is the unusual behavior done by the serial killer that is unnecessary to commit the crime. Furthermore, the serial killer’s signature behavior may reveal their psychological or emotional needs, and a reflection of an underlying personality, lifestyle and developmental experiences. Signatures of the offender are unique which makes the hunt more…