CRIM 454 Lecture 1: CRIM 454
5 Feb 2019
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Week 1: historical background of profiling: facts and fiction. From sherlock holmes to clarice starling the silence of the lambs effect (push people to apply to criminology programs because of fiction tv shows and wanting to be criminal profilers) Proliferation of tv shows depicting an unrealistic image of criminal profiling (e. g. , csi, Millennium, profiler, cracker: what is depicted in shows aren"t realistic and that"s not what they actually do at work. Produced myths that are accepted as true facts and provided students with a misrepresentation of criminal profiling. Criminal profiling in fiction function of profiling has been around for over 100 years . Dr. thomas bond: profile of jack the ripper (1888) Dr. james brussel: probably the most famous profiler, profile of the mad bomber (george metesky; 1950"s) and the boston strangler (albert. So is it possible that what we see at the crime scene doesn"t reflect the personality of the offender?)
