Case Analysis : ' Criminal Offender Profiling '

"This has never been a case of trying to get free. I didn't ever want freedom. Frankly, I wanted death for myself. This was a case to tell the world that I did what I did not for reasons of hate, I hated no one. I know I was sick or evil, or both. Now I believe I was sick. The doctors have told me about my sickness and now I have some peace.” Widely known serial killer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Jeffrey Dahmer, declared this as his closing statement of his murder trial on February 12th of 1992. Dahmer was a man hated by the nation for his horrendous and inhumanely cruel acts. Like other cases of serial murder, little to none tried to understand him. To most eyes, Dahmer was not a person. He was only seen as a serial killer with sadistic intentions.

Criminal Minds does not give the viewer an honest depiction of how the FBIs Behavioral Analyst Unit go about profiling the offender. This specifically can be understood when watching season six episode ten of Criminal Minds the BAU unit is tasked with fining the unsub responsible for murdering three women in a housing complex. In this episode, they fail to properly depict profiling in 3 major ways, they never start by asking the question “why?”, they make many assumptions about the profile and possible offender, and lastly, they took on responsibilities that should be left to local law enforcement.

David Berkowitz, who would grow up to terrorize the streets of New York in a year long reign, was born on June 1, 1953 to Betty Broder and Joseph Kleinman in Brooklyn, New York. Mr. Kleinman, not wanting another child, told Betty to put the child up for adoption.

Putting the Pieces Together When watching your favorite crime show, there might be a murder. People work together to catch the killer; there are several different jobs taken up during the investigation. In an investigation, there is always someone trying to figure out the motive, and that is a criminal profiler. 1. A criminal profiler works alongside law enforcement and government agencies to catch an unknown perpetrator (Criminal Justice Programs).

This article talked about the differences between punishments handed out to smiling verses nonsmiling defendants. The study found that a smiling verse nonsmiling defendant had more effects on male juror’s punishment decisions than it did female jurors. This is because a smiling face increases a person’s level of attractiveness. It also found that there were some effects produced by physical attractiveness and a smile when it comes to determining guilt and punishment. The study’s results especially found significant relationships between defendants who were rated unattractive and who were not smiling. According to the article it was much more common for a guilty and unattractive defendant who was smiling to receive leniency in punishment then the guilty attractive defendant who was smiling. However, the results found that men where the ones who were more lenient with the punishment of smiling defendants especially if the defendant was a woman.

David was conceived on September 9, 1890 in Henryville, Indiana. He was the most established of three. His father was a butcher. He kicked the bucket when David was five years of age. His mother needed to work extend periods of time and David was compelled to deal with his more youthful kin. At the point when his mother remarried in 1902 at 12 years old David didn't coexist with his stride father so he quit school in the seventh grade and was all alone. At 16 he faked his age and went into the Armed force. He was released a year later.

"Criminal profiling is defined and described as a technique whereby the probable characteristics of a criminal offender or offenders are predicted based on the behaviors exhibited in the commission of a crime." Criminal profiling has been popularized by many television shows such as Criminal Minds, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, CSI, and etc. Shows such as the aforementioned are very popular and fascinating, however, these shows don't accurately portray the concept of criminal profiling, and they have skewed many people's perceptions of what criminal profiling is actually like. Many law enforcement television shows delude people when it comes to criminal profiling because actual profiling is "rarely exciting." "In reality, it usually involves two middle-aged FBI agents, with a lot

What is criminal profiling and how is it used by police ? Criminal profiling which is also known as offender profiling, is a method used for investigating by police to narrow down suspects, prove certain motives, analyse patterns and also can help predict a criminals next attack or move. Using criminal profiling, this helps to understand the criminals personality which determines their characteristics, values, habits and also and insight to their background information which includes their job/s and current or previous family environment. As known, criminal profiling is used by police nationwide no matter how big or small the case is.

Rydell Correctional Facility has a public mission statement that encompasses upholding staff safety while providing meaningful opportunities for offender success. Rydell Correctional Facility houses the highest custody level of offenders, officially termed extended restricted housing. Offenders at this custody level have killed or seriously assaulted staff or other offenders and not out of their cell more than an hour a day. The director of prisons for the state department of corrections, Mr. Calhoun, is revising the current extended restricted housing policy based on current trends that it is inhumane. Allowing all offenders the opportunity to be out of their cell for four or more hours

Because the fourteen amendment of the U.S. Constitutions has protections against excessive bail, excessive fines, and cruel punishment, court administrators must be very careful on how to impose the appropriate sentence to offenders, therefore to help court administrators to ensure that they impose the appropriate punishment to offenders they can rely on different tools and factors such as federal sentencing guidelines that are used in federal courts, state laws, the offender’s criminal history, and the role of the offender during the crime among other factors (FindLaw).

Being a criminal profiler is not like it is on all the television shows, but it is still an interesting and important job. Criminal profilers have been used to close many police and federal cases. They work in several homicide cases involving rape, racial killings, brutal killings, and involving serial killers. They help make it easier for the police to find the right person by examining the crime scene. Being a criminal profiler is a tough job but with hard work and dedication it is a great career choice.

The offenders on my caseload are on probation or parole as of result of poor choices. The crimes committed by these individuals range from drug offense to crimes of a violent nature. Regarding the offenders on my case load, some of the thinking errors I have observed from them in my brief time as a community supervision officer is they cannot accept responsibility for there action. Some offenders claim to be victims of the system, having been denied access to resources which could have caused them to have a better life. In one situation I had the opportunity to have a in depth conversation with an offender who spent the majority of his life incarcerated; he share his life story with me and what I gathered from that was how he was living was

While some offender’s commit crime out of desperation, loss of motivation to lead an honest life as you have mentioned, many also commit crime because they do not think there is anything wrong with just taking things they need or want from others. I know many drug addicts/offender’s that think that people should just hand them free drugs, rent clothes and food with the rationalization that they were handed a bad deal in life. I also have seen some offender’s commit crime for the thrill of it, for instance I saw aguy say “watch me get that old man’s watch” he was laughing while acting like he was helping the man from falling and pulled his watch off. In this story the old man was actually a un undercover cop and the guy was arrested however,

In the future, I intend to take the pathway to become a criminal profiler, and I still have a long way to go. This career is difficult to reach in the UK as a criminal profiler must be resilient, to have the ability to deal with any type of assault, have virtuous problem-solving and decision-making skills and outstanding research skills. The later will be the hardest for me to accomplish as I still need to learn to appreciate how important research is. I now know that I need to focus on proximal goals like starting each task by planning ahead of time and focus on doing my best on each individual assignment.

The logic of some individuals has attempted to justify the criminal activity of offenders. Essentially, unlawful behavior has been attributed to a number of conditions such as the offender’s environment and the nature of the adversities they have encountered. For example, it can be contended that a lawbreaker committed an infraction because of the absence of positive adult influences present during their childhood or that they were compelled by need in which they may have resorted to stealing as a means of survival. Ultimately, although a degree of reason may exist to warrant an offender’s actions, they cannot evade that fact that they are predominately accountable for their misconduct. Thus, except in the most exceptional of circumstances, the decision for individuals to violate the law is impermissible. Burglary is one type of crime in which its severity may be minimized because physical harm was not sustained by the victims. However, burglary can deprive victims of their sense of security and strip them of irreplaceable possessions. Furthermore, such an outcome had materialized when the home of Trinidad and Maria Lupercio was breached. Overall, a burglary was perpetuated at the Lupercio residence and in Arizona; this particular case qualifies as burglary in the second degree due to the elements of the crime.