Bullets Psychic Detectives vs Offender profiling PDF

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Bullets Psychic Detectives vs Offender profiling 1. Definition o psychic detective - Paranormal psychic abilities o Definition profiling – identify personality and behavioural characteristics from forensic evidence. (FBI - criminal investigative analysis CIA) 

Purpose – identification of offenders, assist in questioning

2. Scepticism of both – accuracy, validity and utility o Ambiguous information (Shaffer, 2010), pseudoscience (Lilienfeld & Landfield, 2008). 3. Summary of research findings on accuracy and utility o Psychic detective’s poor results (see, Radford Amie Hoffman best case, 2010; Shaffer, 2010 examination 115 Sylvia Browne). o Profiling no empirical evidence (see Kocsis 2013 failure to find evidence of offender homology; Miller, 2015 perceptions of offender profiling and CIA) 4. Profiling more credence with FBI o 1970’s law enforcement approach to profiling 

Structure based on (Chifflet, 2005) a) Victimology – includes modus operandi, signature b) Crime scenes (disorganized, organised c) Staging d) Forensic findings e) Investigative considerations (e.g. interviewing) f) Compared to data base not neighbours as seen in movies

5. FBI – is an art relies on talent of intuition and investigative experience 

Pinizzotto et al 1990 – expert profiler (FBI), trained profiler (law enforcement), no training (police detectives ), psychologists, vs students found expert and trained wrote longer, more detailed, somewhat better predicting rapists, least useful predicting murderer

6. Summary 

Daubert Standards needed for psychic detectives and profilers same a courtroom a) Can’t just say it works b) Must be subject to peer review c) Set standard of training

d) Must accepted within scientific community. 

FALSE PREACH

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a) F

Lack of Falsifiability

b) A

Ad hoc manoeuvres

c) L

Lack of Connectivity

d) S

Lack of Self-correction

e) E

Overreliance of Anecdotal Evidence

f) P

Evasion of Peer Review

g) R

Reversal of Burden of Proof

h) E

Extravagant Claims

i) A

Ancient it must be valid

j) C

Absence of safeguards against Confirmation Bias

k) H

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