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Randy Gonzalez - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Randy Gonzalez has been an active member in the criminal justice field for the past 35 years. As a police officer, deputy sheriff and law enforcement trainer, he has been involved in a number of criminal justice activities. He is the former director of a police academy and a retired chief of police. As a police academy director, he was responsible for basic recruit training, as well as advanced and career development courses for ... [More]
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- Forensic Theology - Ideological Threat Assessments
[News-and-Society:Crime] What is "forensic theology"? Another way to analyze modus operandi in criminal cases?
- Psychic Detectives And Criminal Profilers - Are They Solving More Crimes?
[News-and-Society:Crime] Do psychic detectives and criminal profilers really solve crimes? Or, are they doing what B.T. Barnum would've been proud of? Good questions in a supposedly enlightened era of post-modern America. But, the answer is no. Actually, with all the "psycho gadgets and gizmos", we're solving fewer crimes against persons. And, no, the bad guys aren't getting smarter. Yet, we all want to believe in "supernatural" quick easy answers. So that, to answer complex social issues, we can explain away the mysterious nature of human behavior. Both psychics and profilers use extraordinary conjecture. Absent of course, any credible scientific evidence of a sound basis. In other words, these sleight of hand tactics use techniques any con artist, palm reader or magician would be proud of.
- Why Kids Kill Kids
[News-and-Society:Crime] Kids kill others kids because they choose to do so. Criminal behavior is a decision-making process focused on personal gain. The choice of deviant acts fulfills the fantasy of criminogenic ideation. Thoughts imagine the basis of some self-centered action. The formation of such thinking is part of human nature. Everyone, younger and older, have the potential to be dangerous. From selfish arrogant motives, anti-social tendencies become reality. So, kids kill other kids, just like adults kill other adults. Criminal behavior is a personal seduction to individual deviance. To excuse the behavior by suggesting some external cause-effect influence is to minimize serious criminality. And, at the same time, find ways to avoid punishing the criminal. Asserting theoretical abstracts of some sociological maladjustment, allows the young criminal to escape responsibility. Also, if he or she can hide behind blaming someone or something else, then they avoid accountability. Criminals love excuses. So do the rest of us. It's all about thinking.
- Criminal Profiling - Fact or Fantasy?
[News-and-Society:Crime] In the field of criminology, real-world practitioners are sometimes intrigued by the gullibility of human perceptions. Of which, later on, we see the development of alleged expertise, purporting some new invention. Gee whiz gadgets and gizmos of feel good "psycho-babble" interfere with the realistic practical applications. These dreamlike conjectures typically involve replacing fact with fiction. Pseudo-science that hasn't met the reliability of bone fide experiential authenticity. Usually, this impulse to speculation derives from sensational news reports. Television dramas, talk show "experts" or creative movie scripts fund the urban legends of criminal behavior theory. Careers are established, books are sold and movies unfold. Sooner or later, cottage industries are born. Instant "experts" invent themselves. Set up websites. Write stories about "serial killers" they've known. This is legerdemain of cunning tactics. Intellectual fortune telling at its finest. Because such things are tied to the commercialization of product over principle. So, it is remotely conceivable we've been duped by the duplicity of "dangerous minds". And, that danger wears the black suited, dark sunglasses conformity of shadowy self-interests. They reside in the hallowed sanctity of ivory towers and high level government offices. Places that produce the "serial" everything.
- Classes, Cops and Crime - Protecting the Campus Commons
[News-and-Society:Crime] Protecting the campus environment, or commons, requires a commitment to effective and efficient security strategies. Safety, security and surveillance involve communal cooperation among many participants. This includes those connected to the classroom as well as the cops protecting them. Plus, we can't overlook the campus criminals. Criminal behavior happens everywhere. From small acts of deceit, to large-scale acts of brutality. Anyone is capable of anything. Some members of the campus community cheat on exams, file fraudulent work records, or steal school property.
- Movie Magic - The Gothic Depiction of Criminal Behavior
[News-and-Society:Crime] The singular suggestion of serial behavior conjures images of "monsters" in human form. Movie magic is the clever sleight of hand that thrills our senses. Inventiveness of writers, directors and technicians compete to titillate our imagination. Talented artistic people develop creative works of fiction for the vast entertainment industry.
- Evil - The Mind's Way of Getting Even
[News-and-Society:Crime] When a heinous crime is committed, what do you think? Do you think the perpetrator was somehow influenced by evil? Some external force exerting an uncontrollable rage of reckless blood lust? Did some demonic form take over? Did the criminal inflict tortuous death on an innocent person because of malevolent forces?
- Campus Security - Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance
[News-and-Society:Crime] Proper planning prevents poor performance when designing the scope and scheme of security countermeasures. This is the basic rule of the "5P's". Yet, it's just a beginning. A guide to get moving in determined proactive directions. On a school and college campuses, this means a multi-task approach to productive community interaction. People, places and property interface in a cooperation effort of reducing opportunities for criminal activity.
- Crypto-Criminology - The Gothic Nature of Crime
[News-and-Society:Crime] Crypto-criminology refers to the dark, devious and dangerous side of human nature. That strain of humanistic proclivity that crosses the boundaries of civility into brutality. This is a realm of "practical criminology", applicability to the real world, where human behavior defies profiling, prediction and precise definition. Such an investigation descends to the depths of human depravity, to damp gloomy dungeons of mental mayhem.
- Criminal Profiling and the Magic of the Fashion Police
[News-and-Society:Crime] Is criminal profiling the latest fad in law enforcement? Does fact merge with fiction to produce sleight of hand deceptions? Has Hollywood capitalized on the public's imagination of myth and magic? If recognize the fiction over the fact, how come some many have bought into it? Are we so obsessed by quick and easy solutions to crimes that we pursue any possibility? Okay, so these are just a few questions we could ask the myriad of so-called experts.
- Bite Mark Evidence - Indented Dental Depressions
[News-and-Society:Crime] Bite marks can be a very critical piece of evidence. Careful extraction of such evidential aspects of the investigation, allude to the inner psyche of the perpetrator. Motives, intent and proclivities surface from the surreal to the reality of human inclinations. To psychologically consume another person's flesh, by biting, tasting and swallowing their presence, the criminal enacts the potency of his or her power.
- School Safe - Sexual Behavior and Security
[Reference-and-Education] You're probably wondering, what does sex have to do with security? Some would say a lot. Other might answer, there's no relation between the two. And, still others would say, what are you talking about? Then again, there's another group, the ones who really don't care. They don't care as long as such things don't go public. Depending on your perspective regarding campus safety and security, the subject could be very important. Sex and security could be part of your safety and security planning policies.
- A Classical View - Why Do People Commit Crimes?
[News-and-Society:Crime] Why do people commit crimes? Because they want to. Criminal behavior is a matter of choices. Today, there are many excuses cloaked as reasons for criminal behavior. The misguided nature of these assertions has a serious impact upon crime control strategies. The classical approach to crime control strategies deals with direct intervention tactics.
- Crime Control Strategies - Myth, Magic and Metaphor
[News-and-Society:Crime] Crime Control Strategies typically follow the illusion of the latest political correct innovations. Yet, dealing with criminal behavior requires serious policy implications.
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