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This written assignment consists of two essay questions. Students are expected to develop a 2-3 page essay per question(excluding title and reference page). A minimum of 2 peer-reviewed, scholarly sources per question are to be utilized for the assignment. Sources should also be up-to-date (less than 10 years old). Direct quotes are not permitted.
Topic 1: Profiling involves allowing the physical evidence to reveal to an investigator what behaviors occurred, then thinking about what was intended by the commission of those behaviors. It has been proven time and time again that the majority of investigators are chronically unable to overcome their own perspectives and biases when faced with one or more disturbing violent crime scenes. How do you feel the investigative community can overcome these negative outcomes?
Topic 2: Discuss, in detail, how technology has evolved over the past 20 years in regards to criminal profiling and forensic science, and the way it is being used successfully today by law enforcement.
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Running head: CRIMINAL JUSTICE
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE
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TOPIC 1
For the investigative community, various crime scenes and their corresponding
relationships can be established or dismissed and as well, the professionally trained investigators
can explore the behavioral avenues related to these scenes. On the contrary, most of these
investigators lack appropriate training which is crucial in helping them to overcome individual
perspectives that comes along with the violent crime scenes. Alongside this ideology, crime
investigators should ensure that personal biases do not influence the outright profile of the
offender. There is a belief that people have that science will always imply the truth even if persons
involved in criminal events depict personal opinions concerning the case (KantorowiczReznichenko, 2015).
Various scenes including those that were experienced by the investigators come to affect
the personality of investigators even when they are at work. When desires and feelings mainly
those that were acquired during childhood are not transferred into the current situation of the
investigator, they may tend to turn destructive. The analysis of behavior and the scene of a crime
can at times be misleading particularly to an investigation whereby little evidence provides fewer
clues while in turn providing some true ideas into the ideal crime nature together with the
responsible criminal mind.
Criminal profiling is faced with one major problem which is that it is not fully supported
with facts. It is said that the criminal profilers gather information regarding the crime scene, the
crime's event itself, victims involved as well as the physical evidence, and they then go-ahead to
use this information in recommendations based on the behavior of the perpetrators and their
characteristics. Notably, there is a clear difference between inference and sp...
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