Forensic profiling and psychology misled by the media Criminology essay
The DC sniper. In the DC sniper case, the world watched as American profilers floundered and failed miserably. In October there was a series of similar sniper attacks on the east coast of the United States (Petherick amp Ferguson, 2010). While law enforcement scrambled to protect the public, the media reveled in the drama: In decades since the OP's inception of offender profiling, hundreds of journal articles, books, book chapters, reports, and journal articles have been published on the subject , and the. Forensic psychologists tend to work in the aftermath of a crime, evaluating mental status, analyzing data, and counseling victims or perpetrators, while criminal psychologists focus on motive. Criminal profiling would be of value to psychiatrists in two respects: 1. as a humbling experience in terms of recognizing the limitations of a psychiatrist in a criminal investigation; as an intellectual extension for people with polymathic tendencies. By Brent Turvey, MS San Diego, Academic Press, 1999. 79.95.