The psychological hypotheses that form the foundations for ‘Offender Profiling’ are identified and the research that has tested them is reviewed.
When you are charged with a crime, a police officer has specific initial information that they have to follow to base decisions for an appropriate way to identify and prosecute the offender. Their main task is to gather as much information that they possibly can that way they can draw a conclusion to the incident. Most of the time a point will eventually come where inferences need to be made. Sometimes it can be problematic when the police have no limited pool of suspects or not a clear idea of where they should search to find suspects. For 200 years there has been a challenge for which there is …show more content…
IT appears that in some circumstances to reflect other aspects of a criminals life besides the particular crime that they had committed. One recurring conceptual basis for these models can be seen as an elaboration of routine activity theory in which it is hypothesized that the offender will show some consistency between the nature of their crimes and other characteristics that they exhibit in other situations. These studies of inference are therefore slowly beginning to provide a basis for a more general theory of offender consistency. These results of consistency between social role and other forms of criminal endeavor are thus in keeping with the general thematic framework that is emerging through the studies of actual actions in a crime.
There are many potential benefits if these difficulties can be overcome. One of the most important potential benefits relates to civil liberties. The personal opinion of experts can lead to a person being dealt with as a prime suspect. The slow accretion of scientific evidence, the development and tested of theories and implementation of findings into computer bases, decision support systems does not have the same dramatic power, or excitement as the lone private investigator cracking the crime where the police have been unable
When you are charged with a crime, a police officer has specific initial information that they have to follow to base decisions for an appropriate way to identify and prosecute the offender. Their main task is to gather as much information that they possibly can that way they can draw a conclusion to the incident. Most of the time a point will eventually come where inferences need to be made. Sometimes it can be problematic when the police have no limited pool of suspects or not a clear idea of where they should search to find suspects. For 200 years there has been a challenge for which there is …show more content…
IT appears that in some circumstances to reflect other aspects of a criminals life besides the particular crime that they had committed. One recurring conceptual basis for these models can be seen as an elaboration of routine activity theory in which it is hypothesized that the offender will show some consistency between the nature of their crimes and other characteristics that they exhibit in other situations. These studies of inference are therefore slowly beginning to provide a basis for a more general theory of offender consistency. These results of consistency between social role and other forms of criminal endeavor are thus in keeping with the general thematic framework that is emerging through the studies of actual actions in a crime.
There are many potential benefits if these difficulties can be overcome. One of the most important potential benefits relates to civil liberties. The personal opinion of experts can lead to a person being dealt with as a prime suspect. The slow accretion of scientific evidence, the development and tested of theories and implementation of findings into computer bases, decision support systems does not have the same dramatic power, or excitement as the lone private investigator cracking the crime where the police have been unable