All posts by Criminal Profiling Staff
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Video game to teach lessons about racial profiling
Officer Martinez drives down a quiet suburban street and parks her car in front of three young African-American men playing basketball. She is responding to...
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Online Child Pornography Innocent Images National Initiative
Computer telecommunications have become one of the most prevalent techniques used by pedophiles to share illegal photographic images of minors and to lure children into...
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The New ViCAP
More User Friendly and Used by More Agencies. Where should officers go to obtain information about unsolved violent crime cases? Where do they direct their...
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Lethal Predators and Future Dangerousness
In the summer of 1978, police in East Lansing, Michigan, arrested a baby-faced criminal justice student and youth minister witnesses had seen running from a...
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To Catch a Killer
The Revamping of Investigative Methods in Law Enforcement A vicious rape/murder has occurred in the community. Citizens are shocked at what they consider an anomaly....
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Personal Safety
The chance that you or a member of your family will be a victim of violent crime is low. Violent crimes are still comparatively rare...
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The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker
Dell Publishing, New York, New York, 1997 Through street experience, police officers develop a sixth sense about danger. They learn to rely on and use...
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Book Review : Actual Innocence
Actual Innocence : by Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld, and Jim Dwyer, Doubleday, New York, New York, 2000. Imagine what it would be like to be...
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Digital Evidence and Computer Crime: Forensic Science, Computers, and the Intern
As a place to begin in the investigation of computer-based crime, Digital Evidence and Computer Crime represents a very good start. As the title implies,...
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PTSD and Criminal Behavior
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is described in the DSM IV as “the development of characteristic symptoms following exposure to an extreme traumatic stressor.” In recent...