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occurrence of sexual assault or crimes involving sex, is have legislators pass laws in efforts of reducing recidivism among convicted sexual offenders and deterring would be offenders. Due to the laws passed by legislators, sex offenders living in the United States are required to participate in multiple policies and programs such as; registering as a sex offender, community notifications that are sent out, constraints on where they can live, being monitored and certain internet restrictions,…

establish characteristics of a Child Sex offender (Xavier et al., 2008; Becerra-Garcia et al., 2013; Olivia, 2013). Or to establish what intervention or treatment programs work best to minimise these occurrences (Wilcox et al., 2014; Lasher and Mcgrath, 2016). However, one pertinent issue which seems quite sparse in the literature is whether or not the current application of deterrence (just desserts) principles such as proportional prison sentences on child sex offenders are as…

Sadly in the flawed world that we live in, there are people who have clouded judgments and cannot function rationally. There are people who can commit malicious acts and justify them by their own means that do not necessarily make sense to a sane person. Unfortunately some of these people are psychopaths and serial killers. One of the first serial killers documented in America was Dr. Henry Howard Holmes. He created a hotel in Chicago in 1893 for The World’s Columbian Exhibition. This event…

To analysis the strengths and weaknesses of investigative psychology, you must define the term. Which is to develop a profile of the criminal by viewing his patterns in crime that could predict his movements, future offenses, or the possible victims that he may focus his attention on. To illustrate, we must look at notorious serial killer to fully diagnose the topic. Zodiac killer is one of the most famous in investigative psychology as a profiling tool, due to how he commit his crimes. Three…

Criminal Profiling White Paper Ali Wiethe University of Dayton  According to Kocsis (2010), criminal profiling is defined as “A forensic technique which seeks to provide investigative agencies with specific information which will help focus attention to individuals with personality traits that parallel traits of other perpetrators who have committed similar other offenses.” Through this definition, it is believed that profiling will help law enforcement officers pursue and interview suspects,…

Netflix’s Making A Murder, Glaspell’s A Jury of Her Peers, 48 Hours’ Nightmare in Napa, and the podcast Serial are all examples of popular true crime medias. People enjoy true crime because its purpose is to inform and entertain others. True crime medias are made to educate the public about peculiar parts of life that are not discussed in a normal, day-to-day conversation. Learning about true crime allows others to be capable of looking at life through a different lens. When looking through a…

Introduction To The Colorado Department of Corrections program SOTMP The Colorado Department of Corrections Sex Offender Treatment and Monitoring Program (SOTMP), was developed to reduce recidivism rate of sex offenders, as well as re-enter sex offenders back into the community. The program has been in place for over ten years (D'Orazio, D. M., Thornton, D., & Beech, A. R., 2013). As described by Beech et al. the program is meant to be a “relapse prevention oriented…

Criminal profiling or offender profiling is a sequence of investigative techniques utilized to establish characteristics of unknown criminal. Through criminal profiling, a profiler relates the information from the crime scene to known personality and behaviors attributes resultant from past crimes of other offenders who showed similar traits. The aim of doing this is to attempt to solve the crime and catch the criminal. The FBI has never demonstrated beyond reproach that this method is reliable…

darker side of him that started to develop. Bundy did strange things like look into people’s windows and had no problem stealing this from others. Bundy soon went to the University of Washington where he found the love of his life. She was a rich young woman from the state of California. This girl was everything…

is when criminal profiling comes in to play, as it creates a “biological sketch of behavioral patterns, trends, and tendencies” (Rossi, 1982) So from evidence inferences that may be made about the psychological relationship between crimes and offenders, we can deduce potential suspect, giving cranial investigators leads. As “criminals are distinct in personality or psychological profiles.” (Anastasi, 1976). But the degree of how accurate criminal profiling may be brought into…