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From Right to Left it Had No End: Meat-and-Potatoes Police Work!

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  While some aspects of police work have been studied in depth — for example, police decision making in connection with an arrest — very little is known about the way in which detectives work toward identifying suspects in serial murder investigations. In order for the classification of serial murderers to be more than educated guess work, conclusions must be based on empirical research of consistencies in criminal behavior, and the relationship of those actions to aspects of an offender that are available to the police in an investigation.   A serial murder, whether committed for sexual sadistic purposes or revenge, is just a label for what is, in fact, quite complex behavior. However, this label tells us little about the individual who carries out that behavior. For example, current models of serial murderers are embedded with demographic statistics, offender self-reports, and offense descriptions mixed in an intuitive manner to create groups that conform to the researchers’...
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From Right to Left it Had No End: 'Cat-O'Nine-Tails'

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    Regrettably, abuse of human rights is so widespread on a global scale that some reference must now be made in forensic pathology examiantion as the physical manifestations of torture. It is stated by Amnesty International (2001) that in a third of the member states of the United Nations torture of one kind or another is practised, in spite of them being signatories to United Nations resolutions banning these atrocities. According to Amnesty International's worldwide report on torture based on a 3-year investigation (2OOO), currently more than 150 countries routinely torture people compared with 98 countries in their previous report in 1984. Although most torture does not result in death, there are - sufficient cases of physical abuse of human rights that progress to fatality that a number of organizations offer expertise when any alleged case needs to be investigated, usually calling upon forensic pathologists to assist them in such circumstances.   In many instances ...
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From Right to Left it Had No End: Pursuits

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  There are various ways to classify types of criminal homicide. State statutes distinguish between criminal and non-criminal homicides, degrees of murders, and types of manslaughters. Law enforcement agencies often categorize homicides according to the characteristics of the offender (e.g., gang versus non-gang), the victim (e.g., child murders, teen violence, elderly victims), or situational context or attributes (e.g., domestic violence, stranger assaults, drive-by shootings, robbery-murders, road rage, or workplace homicides). Lawyers, social scientists, and law enforcers also classify homicides in terms of motive. Common motives for homicides include trivial altercations, jealousy, revenge, romantic triangles, robbery, sexual assault, burglary, and disputes in drug transactions.     These motives betterment measures (like job training, family counseling, and educational enhancement) are often advocated as corrective actions to abate the conditions that motivate instr...
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From Right to Left it Had No End: Choice Matters Over Need

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  Facet Theory offers a new approach to classifying serial murderers that may be practical for police investigations. There are two immediate advantages. First, serial murder investigations are faced with a great deal of information of investigative value that may be derived from simple overt aspects of an offense. Facet Theory can be helpful in serial murders which often involve subtle behavioral information which has value, but detailed analysis of the overt actions of the murder usually overshadow these actions.  The study found that the locations at which victims were abducted were centrally located close to the offenders’ home bases rather than at any number of the body dump locations. Second, Facet Theory can use offense and offender variables that have been inductively related and empirically replicated for linking crimes to a common offender.   There has been little empirical study of the abilities that contribute to proficient performance in psychological pr...
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