Forensic
Uploaded by andrewsandon on Nov 13, 2006
Forensic was been defined as an boundary specialty related to influential use of psychiatry, the appliance of psychiatric principles, theory, and practice to legal issues for legal ends. “Its psychiatric fact finding for legal purposes.” (Curran, McGarry, Petty, 1980, p. 658)
The major question for the trained investigator is what approach does the behavior of the offender provide into his own personal morals, and how does that lend to the motive and signature of the offender. Essentially, what do the circumstances say about the present, past, and future behavior of the offender. The substantial evidence has to a starting point of the offender’s profile. Behavioral examination and the crime view might be misleading in the investigation, for this reason the purpose of investigation must only be on the behavior of the offender in regard the physical elements of a certain crime at hand.
Offender profiling is a technique of recognizing the performer of a crime which involves the examination of the character of the offense and the behavior in which it had been committed. Different aspects of the personality makeup of the criminal are determined by his choice of the actions during, before, and after the crime. This data is combined with other relevant details and physical evidence, and afterwards compared with the features of known types of personality and mental abnormalities with a purpose of developing a useful description of the offender.
A successful examination of severe criminal offenders engages broad behavioral profiling that takes strong skills from both the law enforcement community and mental health. With the growing amount of serious offenses and people’s suffering, the need for cooperation, objective profiling, and communication between both fields starts to become more self evident.
Some of the primary attempts to make profiling were made by Darwin. He developed a theory that humans came from f the apes, and some Italian Lumbroso was persuaded that convicts were close to the ape in relationship, rather than folks that abide law. “He went around the prisons and measured 9,000 heads and announced that you could identify a villain because they looked like throw backs to the apes. In this profiling study it was stated that criminals had great big ears, large jaws, broad sinuses and cheekbones.” (James Burke, Connections 2 Series, video, The Learning Channel) Later studies started to go ahead of the bumps and became more profound with the brain.
The FBI’s Profiling Unit can...