There is a belief that criminal profilers can predict a criminal’s characteristics from crime scene evidence. In this article, the authors argue that this belief may be an illusion and explain how people may have been misled into believing that criminal profiling (CP) works despite no sound theoretical grounding and no strong empirical support for this possibility. Potentially responsible for this illusory belief is the information that people acquire about CP, which is heavily influenced by anecdotes, repetition of the message that profiling works, the expert profiler label, and a disproportionate emphasis on correct predictions. Also potentially responsible are aspects of information processing such as reasoning errors, creating meaning out of ambiguous information, imitating good ideas, and inferring fact from fiction. The authors conclude that CP should not be used as an investigative tool because it lacks scientific support.
Source: “The Criminal Profiling Illusion, What’s Behind the Smoke and Mirrors?” from Criminal Justice and Behavior
Follow me on Twitter here or get updates via email here.
Digests of posts:
Things you didn’t know about sex
How to quickly and easily improve your life
Things you didn’t know about sports
Things you didn’t know about happiness
Things you didn’t know about lies, liars and detecting lies
Things you didn’t know about negotiation, persuasion and influence
Things you didn’t know about marriage and relationships
TheRedArchive is an archive of Red Pill content, including various subreddits and blogs. This post has been archived from the blog bakadesuyo.
Title | Does criminal profiling really work? |
---|---|
Author | Eric Barker |
Date | February 20, 2011 1:52 PM UTC (13 years ago) |
Blog | bakadesuyo |
Archive Link |
https://theredarchive.com/blog/bakadesuyo/does-criminal-profiling-really-work.16158 https://theredarchive.com/blog/16158 |
Original Link | https://www.bakadesuyo.com/2011/02/does-criminal-profiling-really-work/ |
© TheRedArchive 2024. All rights reserved.
created by /u/dream-hunter