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November 14 // Criminology & Death and Dying

Criminology
Today we will begin a unit on criminal profiling. Criminal profiling is used mostly by behavioral scientists and the police to narrow down an investigation to those suspects who possess certain behavioral and personality features that are revealed by the way a crime was committed.

Introductory Lecture

Criminal profiling can be broken down into seven steps:

1. Evaluation of the criminal act itself (i.e. modus operandi: what the offender does to effect the crime; signature: why he does it, the thing that "fulfills" him emotionally).
2. Comprehensive evaluation of the specifics of the crime scene or scenes.
3. Comprehensive analysis of the victim or victims (victimology).
4. Evaluation of preliminary police reports.
5. Evaluation of the medical examiner's autopsy protocol.
6. Development of a profile with critical offender characteristics.
7. Investigative suggestions predicated on construction of the profile.

Discussion: What are your initial reactions to this process? Is it a good method for the police to be able to use their resources most effectively during an investigation? Is it morally or ethically wrong to use a profile? Is there anything in the lecture that you made special note of?

Homework: Read the chapter on Applied Victimology.

Death and Dying
Please have a seat, and share your homework assignment with the class, which was to find an example of a death that can not be explained by scientific means.

Homework: I would like you to review what type of deaths are required by law to be investigated in the state of Virginia.

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Welcome.

"My initial thoughts are that criminal profiling is a good idea that is getting a bad reputation right now. The media seems to focus solely on times when criminal profiling is viewed as racist and/or biased and ignore times when it works to catch a criminal."

"That's an interesting perspective, thank you."

signs in looking tired but happy.

I agree with John, the media colors it as a bad thing when in fact the profiling helps catch criminals all the time.

"Interesting, thank you Maia," Grissom smiles warmly.

Maia smiles back softly she was worried about Grissom.

"I have no problem with profiling in theory, but I think it's like the death penalty -- too often it's used in biased ways. And that is dusgusting."

"Good observation, Angela. Thank you."

Chloe bites at her lip for a second before answering. "I don't know, I'm sort of torn. I know profiling can be useful in a lot of cases, especially chronic and serial ones, and it would be idiotic to ignore how successful profiling is simply because some cases of the procedure are improper and unethical, like racial profiling. But on the other hand, that sort of profiling does happen, so while it's a successful system, it certainly isn't a flawless one, and that has to be taken into consideration."

"I think a profile is a good basis to start from. As long as the investigation isn't limited to what is written down and the investigator don't forget to think outside of the categories that are handed to them."

Welcome.

"Thank youuu. And give me a minute for that example?"

Susan turns in her homework and sits up the back. She's making a special effort to be visible all through class today.

Buffy turns in her homework and then starts looking over today's lesson.

"Sudden deaths to persons in apparent good health are one of the top situations that have to be carefully investigated."

~~What about neck rupture?~~

Buffy stiffens and turns to look at Marty.

~~No one ever believes me when I tell them about that. That's why they count on me to take down the problem.~~

[OOC: Sorry... that was supposed to be an OOC Snarky Comment!]

~~Mr. Blank, if you could stop fucking with your fellow teenaged, trained-killers with depression issues, I'd really appreciate it.~~

~~Sorry Sir.~~

Dr. Grissom? I have to be honest. I went through and ~~googled~~ researched many different deaths, but I couldn't find one that was easily explained by a disease of some sort. ~~My google-fu has failed me.~~

Marty hands in a report detailing one weird death where doctors could not explain the death until the autopsy revealed that the patient had HIV and died of a simple form of pneumonia. "This would probably be an example of where mishandled science couldn't find the cause of the disease in time to save the patient. Will this do?"

~~Young Jedi, it saddens me that you have failed.~~

"That's perfectly acceptable, Martin. Thank you."

~~I'm not going to have to get one of those rat-tails like Anakin has, do I?~~

~~No, but you do need to wear this hat (http://www.cusackclass.com/ocs23.jpg)~~

~~You are cruel, vindictive, and I love you.~~

~~I learned from the Master. Uh, I mean, master.~~

I thought you liked the ball gag...*pouts*

Sara, not in front of the kids.

They'll probably criticize our technique, the kinky little shits.

Considering I missed out on pinch-day, I have to make up for lost time.

Who knows? They might have good ideas.

You snooze, you lose.

And that's what I'm worried about. *smirk*

Oh, and am I really supposed to ignore you out of subtext while you have those pants on? I may be a bit repressed, but that's just cruel.

You seemed hell bent on ignoring me both in and out of subtext. A girl's gotta use whatever shameless advantages she has.

Can I see your cock...roach? *smirks

Sara, you don't need to wear tight, leather pants to grab my attention. So please, take them off whenever you'd like.

Of course. I've got a stinger you might want to check out as well. ;)

~~Is not looking at Sidle with a whip and leather pants and enjoying it very much because I'd probably get detention.~~

From me? No. From her? Potentially.

She does like the bearded silent type, though, sorry to burst your bubble. Too bad that meant Silent Bob in this case. *does not pout*

Well, it could have been you had you been willing to pull your head out of the microscope. *is not snarky*

~~I'm a moron!~~

[We are aware of that, yet we love him anyway.]

~~No argument!~~

Like that's even subtext! *wink*

~~Please don't encourage him.~~

~~My sympathy is lacking.~~

~~Wait? You actually have sympathy?~~

~~The young man looks familiar, but I can't place the name. And if you think I'm wearing that hat, you've been spending too much time amoung the bugs.~~

~~Fine, fine, no hat. Although a man who appreciates a good hat is rare nowadays, my friend. How about this? (http://www.cusackclass.com/images/heads2.jpg)~~

~~Bwah! I'm sooooo loving this website. I thank you an your very sexy hat. Especially this picture of my cat (http://www.cusackclass.com/kitty.jpg)~~

~~I know what someone's getting for Christmas!~~

[OOC: In reality? I own a hat like that. Fear me.]

Callisto turns in a report on a number of people who died from what seemed to be sudden electrical shock, despite being nowhere near anything electrical.

There is a conspicuous absence of the word "smite" and it's various conjugations.

[[OOC: *loves Callisto*]]

Sawyer in turns his example of unexplained deaths of infants that seem to be perfectly healthy and their deaths aren't a result of SIDS in anyway. Hm, weird.

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