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The Offender Profiling Series. 1 – What is Offender profiling?
Offender profiling is a subject of great controversy. It has been widely portrayed in film and TV and yet the realities of this process, and of its usefulness, are so often misunderstood. Profiling is not, as many would have you … Continue reading
The Relationship between Mental Health and Crime: Links and Resources.
The relationship between mental health and crime, as with that between the brain and crime, is one that is both complex and controversial. The media has, unfortunately, often represented this link in a negative way, leading to the perception that … Continue reading
The Brain and Crime: What is the relationship here?
The relationship between brain function and criminal activity is an area of huge controversy and debate from scientific, legal and philosophical perspectives. Essentially the key issues here are these: does brain dysfunction lead to criminal behaviour and, if so, what … Continue reading
The psychopath: Facts and research resources
Of the many disorders represented in film, books and other media the psychopath, and the condition of psychopathy, is perhaps one of the most misunderstood. Psychopathy is an extremely complex, and often controversial, issue. Debates rage in terms of its’ … Continue reading
Theories of crime: Links to free full text resources.
Here are some more links to articles and overviews that I think are useful for writers, students and others of you who are interested in criminal behaviour and forensic psychology. As before links to these have been on Twitter at … Continue reading
Free Research Resources: Geographical Profiling & the Spatial Behaviour of Serial Offenders.
Following on from my links last week, here are more full text articles or papers for any writers, police officers, students or other interested parties! I have posted links to these on Twitter before but have had many new followers … Continue reading
Research in Offender Profiling: Useful Full Text Resources.
 Following on from my post last week, this is the first of a series of posts in which I will share links to research papers and articles. These have all been tweeted before but I am aware that they may … Continue reading
The Lazy Brain: Cognitive Limitations and Journey to Crime
In my last post I discussed the issue of cognitive limitation, the fact that our brain can only process so much information at once without being overloaded. This means that our brain is ‘miserly’ with it’s processing and uses a … Continue reading
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Tagged Brain, Cognition, crime, forensic psychology, Mental mapping, Psychology
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