Law and Criminality: Forensic/Criminal Psychology
Is Psychology an effective tool to assist in the apprehension/prosecution of criminals?
Contents:
1.) Introduction: What is Criminal Psychology/Profiling?
2.) Project Outline
3.) Media Portrayal
4.) Personal perspective of Criminal Psychology
5.) Global perspective of Criminal Psychology
6.) National/Local perspective of Criminal Psychology
7.) Analysis of Issues
8.) Personal Response: My course of action
9.) Conclusion
10.) Bibliography
Introduction: What is Criminal Psychology/Profiling?
Criminal profiling is a use of psychology, which aims to get into the minds of offenders to figure out why they commit crime, whether there is a certain type of person who commits crime, behaviours of typical criminals, and possibly predict the next crime. These conclusions can be helpful to the police in narrowing down suspects, thus resulting in a case with minimal victim casualties.
Psychology's role in the apprehension of criminals is broad, covering areas such as interviewing, detecting deception, offender profiling, and eyewitness research.
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