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Full-Text Articles in Criminology
Offender Profiling In Australia, Wayne Petherick
Offender Profiling In Australia, Wayne Petherick
Wayne Petherick
This important original work recognises the close relationship between criminology and forensic psychology. It offers evidence-based psychological research, relevant to the current legal justice systems operating in Australia and New Zealand. The chapters are written by a range of experienced specialists, and reflect major areas that forensic psychologists work in and give a real sense of the underpinning knowledge base from which the profession works. Readers will obtain an understanding of the diverse, complex and challenging tasks that forensic psychologists face on a day-to-day basis and the implications the field has for psychology as a whole as well as related …
Behavioural Evidence Analysis: Ideo-Deductive Method Of Criminal Profiling, Wayne Petherick, Brent Turvey
Behavioural Evidence Analysis: Ideo-Deductive Method Of Criminal Profiling, Wayne Petherick, Brent Turvey
Wayne Petherick
Extract:
In the previous chapter, we learned that idiographic (individual case) study is the type that results in knowledge about the characteristics of a particular case. This is useful when trying to understand the unique characteristics, dynamics, and relationships between a particular crime scene, victim and offender. Idiographic offender profiles, therefore, are characteristics developed by studying or examining a single case. Furthermore, while nomothetic profiles are abstract, idiographic profiles are concrete. That is to say, an idiographic profile represents an actual offender that exists in the real world. The nomothetic profile is an average, or a prediction; it does not …
Criminal Motivation, Wayne Petherick, Brent Turvey
Criminal Motivation, Wayne Petherick, Brent Turvey
Wayne Petherick
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In criminal prosecution, the determination of motive is not necessary. While this may be a legal reality, the failure to make this determination is a significant investigative shortcoming, and any investigation that has failed to yield the motive behind the crime is subsequently incomplete. The determination of motive can only be inferred by reasoning from the facts developed during an investigation. In some cases, motive is readily apparent; in others, it is hidden from view. When the latter is true, a thorough investigation is required to put it all together.
Victimology, Wayne Petherick, Brent Turvey
Victimology, Wayne Petherick, Brent Turvey
Wayne Petherick
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In the rush to investigate crime, it is not difficult to become distracted by an understandable interest in criminal behaviors and motivations and forget the value of understanding victims. Those with an interest in criminal profiling, for example, often raise the question of how emotionally taxing and intellectually challenging it must be to see through the eyes of a criminal- as though criminal profiling has everything to do with this and as though the criminal should be more important than the victim. Overfocus on the offender is understandable as the victim is not always front and centre in the …
Stalking, Wayne Petherick
Stalking, Wayne Petherick
Wayne Petherick
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Despite considerable media and academic interest in the phenomenon of stalkers and stalking in the late 1990s and into early 2000, there has been a significant decline of media reporting in recent years. In fact, we rarely hear about run-of-the-mill stalking cases in the media at all- only those involving sensational aspects such as high victim count, celebrities, or public figures. Or it might be reported as part of the sequence of events that led to a sensationally intimate homicide that has the public's interest. This is most likely because the general public has acclimated to the stalking phenomenon …
Criminal Profiling, The Scientific Method, And Logic, Wayne Petherick, Brent Turvey
Criminal Profiling, The Scientific Method, And Logic, Wayne Petherick, Brent Turvey
Wayne Petherick
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This chapter explains how valid inferences are made leaning deeply against the framework of criminal profiling. It requires the use of the scientific method, an applied understanding of the science of logic, and knowing how to know when you are wrong. It also requires some understanding of bias.
Nomothetic Methods Of Criminal Profiling, Wayne Petherick, Brent Turvey
Nomothetic Methods Of Criminal Profiling, Wayne Petherick, Brent Turvey
Wayne Petherick
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There are two ways of viewing the application of logic to the development of scientific knowledge (Novick, 1988, p. 34). The first takes the position that facts, appropriately shaped and organized, will divulge their intrinsic connections to each other. In this system of reasoning, such facts are assumed to be evident of inherent truths separate from the desires of those examining them. Further, in this system of reasoning, observations are considered the purest, most honest form of study. It is consequently believed that one should observe the facts and not poison their meaning with the construction of inductive hypotheses …