CRI386H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Offender Profiling, Police Science, Meh
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Whether psychology in fbi criminal profiling is psychlogical at all not really formal scientific psychology. Developments in fbi in quantico something public is very aware of. Forward from them rapidly disseminated technology, not just used by forces but also. Tv shows that don"t have profiler in them often import profiler for certain episodes or have people who aren"t profilers but have had some training in it. Certain amount of controversy recently much more criticized. Most part detection technique that isn"t the profile. Once profile has done, narrow range of suspect build evidence. Almost everything written was written by profilers, or people writing on behalf of profilers. Quasi academic publications (fbi), news accounts, books by profilers. First wave of discussions of profiling very positive. Very positive statements in beginning, but meh later on but the same for most criminal justice innovations. Obvious antecedents using data to aid investigations, capturing, convicting criminals. Fingerprint analysis, dna analysis, photographic mugshots (back in the day)
