Crime Line-Up

Psychology plays a very important role in the field of criminal justice. It is needed to help assess individuals who commit crimes, as well as, help to be a predictor of criminal behavior. Utilizing theories such behaviorism and operant conditioning, individual behavior is able to be assessed by the response to learning what actions result in rewards and what actions result in punishment. As a result of how individuals respond to rewards and punishment, learned behaviors have the possibility to be deterred or corrected.

“For any crime to occur, there must have been an intersection in both time and place between the offender and victim” (Rossmo, 2012). The traditional investigative methods employed to solve serial crimes is on the basis of the theoretical principle of psychology; by analyzing the cognitive processes of the offender and the role of the target rather than the nature of the situation. However, this reactive approach disregards the extent to which environmental factors are able to manipulate the offender’s behavior leading up to the criminal act. This may include factors such as the shape, size, and distribution between one crime scene to another. A developing technique recently incorporated into policing, primarily to address the limitations of

Since the time that the scientific science dramatization "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" turned into a tremendous hit and generated its fans, reporters have been worried about what they instituted the "CSI Effect." The hypothesis behind the effect is that fans of the well-known show disguise misguided judgments about the law that they bring with them into the court as jurors. In this way, the trepidation is that the TV show is at last influencing the results of trials - and not in a great manner. Criminal justice researchers have started to study the inquiry of whether nationals who are called to serve on juries bring unreasonable desires and convictions to the court as a consequence of TV projects. The impact that these projects may have on the jurors, their desires, and their choices is known as the CSI effect.

Based on observation, both studies fail to proof the existence of stereotyping when the participant link the gender factor and the nature behaviour of the specific crime itself- violent or sneaky. There are also several limitations to the current study that must be noted such as the use of individual juror judgments, rather than jury decisions. A second limitation is the use of a written summary instead of a more realistic stimulus. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to confirm either there is a link between defendant gender and crime types which are the assault and shoplifting case with its probability to guilty on the juror decision. Briefly, there were 1049 undergraduate students of psychology participated in this study and all of them were instructed to read a one page article of a crime case which telling the defendant as a male or female and his or her crime either assault or shoplifting. After that, they are required to answer survey on the rate of defendant likelihood to be guilty. The hypothesis of this study is that female defendant will be perceived as more likely to be guilty than male in shoplifting case and male will look more guilty in assault crime.

There are three conjoined elements of crime: Mental State (Mens Rea), Conduct (Actus Reus), and Concurrence.

The subject of this book dealt with the idea of how this discrepancy between the reality of crime, the public’s perception, and government expenditures has come to pass. Also what are its consequences for the quality of life in the United States? The misperception between what the public believes and what politicians tell us was created because politicians search for publicly approved issues, local law enforcement agencies support the uniform crime report (UCR) findings, the media is always looking for sensational news. “ the police and the FBI are joined by the media in the never-ending search for sensational topics that will titillate and exacerbate the fears and anxieties of the viewing public and, not coincidentally, increase the number

1. The theories and perspectives in this unit focus on the environmental and social influence of crime. Do you think that environmental and social conditions influence crime? Why or why not? Between biological, psychological, and social factors, which one do you think plays the biggest role in crime? Why?

I have read the book the Crime Fighter by Jack Maple. I highly suggest this book to anyone with an interest of CompStat and how it first came around or just for fun reading. In my paper I have carefully researched each individual topic as I read the book to look for more information on each part. This includes CompStat, Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) which is not used but we use National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), Warrants, Sting Operations, and Foot Patrol. Each one of these with the exception of foot patrols and police officers in schools were in the book when I read The Crime Fighter.

The ability of humans to recognise and remember faces is remarkable. Interestingly, there seem to be many factors that influence the performance of facial recognition, such as age, gender, race and even particular social or cultural groups that people belong to.

Overly, the model provides coherent explanation of many kind of information about faces and how they relate to each other. It provides evidence about significant differences in processing of familiar and unfamiliar faces. Nonetheless there are limitations. For instance, there is not enough information about processing unfamiliar faces. Burton et al. (1999)

The main questions that should be asked is why is there is much crime in society today? I am 27 years old and I have seen so much crime in my 20’s that it sad whether it is on the news or even in my hometown, Memphis, TN. With crime in our society we are as well as is losing our authority. When discussion the diversity of crime and society the matter is the things that makes criminal law enforcement such a perplexing question. Like I mention, I have been living in Memphis, TN all my life which have been for 27 years. Just this past Sunday my city had a Black Lives Matter protest. Also in the city of Memphis the groups of KKK also protest on July 10th at the same time. The Black Lives Matter protests took place on the Memphis/Arkansans Bridge. Even those this were two different protest I must say they both were very peaceful , yes it was a scary thing because either one of these groups could of got out

In the scenario the night watchman was murdered because he was a witness to the crime. Therefore, he could identify everyone who was at the scene. I feel that during his checks he found that the lock to the back door of the warehouse had been kicked open. Unfortunately, he didn’t know that there were people still in the warehouse. Therefore, he went in to check on the building as well as to see what was going on and found the criminals beating the first victim Robert “Capper” McWilliams. Upon seeing this he realized that he needed help and tried to leave but had been seen by the offenders and was shot. Therefore, there would be no witness to this crime that may be able to identify the suspects.

Their theory has enough empirical evidence although it lacks the initial face detection stage and can be said to be inflexible, with limited case study size resulting in the findings having the possibility of lacking generalizability.

The overall crime rate is designated as Medium for Malaysia; however, the rate is believed to be higher in Kuala Lumpur (KL). Petty crime against expatriates is fairly common while violent crime remains relatively uncommon.

Although some critiques can be made, the experiment overall was well structured and the scientists was able to gather good evidence. The authors agreed that the mechanism that is associated with the implicit recognition is different from the recognition awareness. The scientists had the participants take a forced-choice test for a second time after they had looked at the kaleidoscope images. By doing another experiment using the same technique, they are giving a variety of stimiulus that could reaffirm the correlation that they are trying to make.