#criminal profiling

[cryptid-intraining]

Let me introduce you to a strange beef I have with one of the creative members of Criminal Minds.

There was a period of time where I was really into forensic psychology, I was intrigued by the concept of it depicted in Criminal Minds so I started reading forensic psychology textbooks and coursework. There was one section in Criminal Profiling: An Introduction To Behavioral Evidence Analysis by Brent E. Turvey (Fourth Edition) that touched on a now retired FBI profiler called Jim Clemente, in a section about the often flawed and biased nature of the court testimony given by so called "expert profilers". In fact the first half of the textbook is basically just dedicated to explaining how untrustworthy and frequently inaccurate profiling is. Turvey preceded to absolutely rip apart the way Clemente presented his credentials and proof of expertise in the most coldly brutal yet academic manner. For context there were ten whole pages specifically just discussing SSA Clemente's expert witness testimony.

And obviously what I'm getting at is the fact that Clemente was the advising expert on Criminal Minds. He was naturally retired by this point, since I don't think agents are allowed to advise on TV shows when they're still active, but he had worked on numerous high profile (hah) cases before he left the FBI.

Now, onto why I really don't like this dude.

Just looking at the show, it's not clear how much of an influence he had on it, at least not without knowing a little bit about our man Jimmy. Once you do, it becomes clear that he straight up copy and pasted elements of his own life onto the show in some bizarre cool person narrative ego trip.

Have you ever noticed how many times the members of the BAU bring up the case of the DC snipers? It's more than once if you weren't counting. How they often mention how accurate the profile was and generally just use it as a touchstone of "good" profiling?

You'll never guess who created that profile in real life.

They never go so far in the show as to actually name drop Clemente but the constant reference of it is as good as.

We all know and love the team leader of the BAU, right? Good old Aaron Hotchner. His backstory is pretty interesting as well, wouldn't you agree? Prosecutor to BAU profiler, that's neat.

You know who else started as a prosecutor before being recruited as a profiler for the BAU? If you said Robert Ressler you would be wrong but if you said Jim Clemente you would be bang on the money.

There are more, much smaller bits and pieces I've noticed on rewatches. Phrases and metaphors that I've heard Clemente use on video before that he's clearly adding to the scripts (he's done several breakdown style videos on YouTube), it's just a little bit here and there and it irks me to no end.

There isn't anything sinister here. Nothing actually problematic. I just know too much about retired SSA Jim Clemente and I need other people to know about this too because I'm rewatching Criminal Mind and I just can't stop seeing his influences in the shows and it's so annoying.

#cm #criminal minds #the bau #criminal profiling #forensic psychology #fbi

[hillside-dangler]

Edmund Kemper

C)(C

#true crime #serial killers #criminal investigations #Ed Kemper #criminal profiling #edmund kemper #Crime After Crime #The Killing Of America #Mindhunter

[hathorneheiress]

I have started watching Criminal Minds and I can't say I love it, but it is entertaining to say the least.

I have watched almost every season and every episode of NCIS and I love it! It's my favorite show. But criminal Minds is much more intense and gorier then NCIS so that is probably why I don't care for it as much.

My favorite characters are Hotchner and Reid. (No surprise on Reid since he seems to be everybody's favorite!)

One of my favorite scenes so far is in season 2 when they are all at a bar. Emily Prentiss has joined the team and they are all enjoying doing different things.

Morgan dancing, The girls drinking with other guys. Gideon and Hotch sitting in a corner. And the one that I thought was hilarious: Reid having people quiz him on certain stuff! All the others are having a relaxing good time, and we see that Reid's version of a good time is having people quiz him! 🤣

I do love the profiling aspect of the show. That is very interesting to watch, but it's the dark cases they take on that gets to me sometimes.

A solemn reminder of what really goes on in the real world.

#criminal minds #spencer reid #Hotchner #drinking in a bar #profiling #criminal profiling

[hollymbryan]

Blog Tour: Top 5 Reasons to Read SOME SHALL BREAK by Ellie Marney! #tbrbeyondtours

Welcome to Book-Keeping and my stop on the TBR and Beyond Tours blog + bookstagram tour for Some Shall Break by Ellie Marney, the sequel to 2020’s breakout hit None Shall Sleep! I absolutely loved the first book and this follow-up, and below you’ll find my top 5 reasons to read the series!

About the Book

title: Some Shall Break (None Shall Sleep #2) author: Ellie Marney publisher: Little, Brown release date: 6 June 2023

This sequel to the New York Times bestselling None Shall Sleep is an equally electrifying, chilling thriller that brings us back into the lives of junior FBI consultants Travis Bell and Emma Lewis with a new case that may unravel everything they’ve been working for.

After a harrowingly close contact with juvenile sociopath Simon Gutmunsson, junior FBI consultants Emma Lewis and Travis Bell went their separate ways: Emma rejected her Quantico offer and Travis stayed to train within a new unit of the FBI Behavioral Science division. But the unit’s latest case is feeling eerily familiar and Kristin Gutmunsson—Simon Gutmunsson’s eccentric twin—reaches out to Travis to send a warning: Emma is in peril. When Travis and Kristin turn up evidence that points back to Daniel Huxton, the serial killer that Emma had escaped, things become more complicated. With a copycat on the loose, Emma returns to Quantico and is thrown back into her past traumas. Compelled to prevent more tragedy—even if it means putting herself in danger—Emma turns to Simon for help once again. But Simon is keeping secrets that could impact their entire investigation. Will the team be able to stop the Huxton copycat before time runs out for his next victims?

Content Warning: Murder, gore, trauma, sexual assault, sexism, violence, drug use, racism

Add to Goodreads: Some Shall Break (None Shall Sleep #2) Purchase the Book: Amazon | B&N | Bookshop.org

About the Author

Ellie Marney is a NYT bestselling author of crime fiction. Her most recent book is The Killing Code, and her other titles include the Aurealis-winning None Shall Sleep, the Every series – starting with Every Breath – and the companion novel No Limits, White Night, and the Circus Hearts series, starting with Circus Hearts 1. Ellie’s next book, Some Shall Break, the sequel to None Shall Sleep, will be released June 2023.

Ellie’s books are published in eleven countries and have been optioned for television. She’s spent a lifetime researching in mortuaries, talking to autopsy specialists, and asking former spies how to make explosives from household items, and now she lives quite sedately in south-eastern Australia with her family.

Connect with Ellie: Website | Twitter | Instagram | Goodreads | Facebook

Top 5 Reasons to Read

I must admit I’m kind of glad this isn’t a traditional review because I’d just be gushing incoherently about how freaking much I loved Some Shall Break (and its predecessor, None Shall Sleep). So instead of rambling, let me give you my top 5 reasons to read this incredible series!

1. The early 1980s setting had me nostalgic for my childhood! Granted, I was only 7 in 1982, but I loved all the little references to things I remember from that time - songs, fashion, cars, etc.

2. I loved getting a (fictional) peek inside the beginnings of the FBI’s now-famed Behavioral Science Unit, which quickly became the gold standard for serial killer profiling.

3. These books give us the most creepy and terrifying serial killer this side of Hannibal Lecter, and I am absolutely chuffed to see the grittiness of this thriller series in young adult lit!

4. Emma Lewis is a badass, incredibly complex character that you root for with every single page you turn. Her badassery lies not in brute strength or actual abilities to kick butt, but in her strength of character, her tenacity, her intelligence, her unwillingness to be pushed around, and her feminist sensibilities (back when more mainstream feminism was still fairly new). She has *been through some shit* and has come out the other side fierce and strong, while also still dealing with the effects of her captivity. I love the quote from Adrienne Rich that she cites as her favorite: “Her wounds came from the same source as her power.”

5. Finally, more on the feminism: again, we’re dealing with very early ‘80s, so mainstream feminism was in its nascent stage, but Marney exposes the sexism inherent in not just police culture but also the culture at large at the time -- and which unfortunately still exists today. At one point Kristen says, “People only listen when women expose their pain, I suppose.” Emma later remarks, “Every woman lives in a constant state of battle-readiness.” Later, when Emma shoos away a creep in a bar by referring to her FBI partner, Travis, as her boyfriend, she notes “the irony that she has to claim connection with one man to avoid another.” I doubt I’m alone in saying each of these is all too familiar even now, 40 years after the setting of this book.

I’m not sure I can adequately convey how darn much I love this series, but I hope this list is a start! If you are *at all* a mystery/thriller lover, PICK THESE UP! Even if you don’t normally read YA, I am confident you’ll love these. And DM me with thoughts once you’re done!

RATING: 5 stars!

**Disclosure: I received a copy of this book from the publisher for purposes of this blog tour. I also bought myself the audiobook to alternate between audio and physical.

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[thescienceofdeductionn]

Mindset Part 4-Situational Awareness Part 2

Now, it has been a while. We are going deeper into Situational Awareness. I want you to watch this 1-minute clip before we start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igSv9d50fYM And also this 3 minute clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUlmEzweusY As you can see, what happened here is that they lost their awareness for a second and their friend got lost. Obviously, we can apply it to everyday situations. For example when you go to a cafe(I am mostly using a cafe example because it is common for all of us.)if you don't be aware all the time, you will miss a lot of observations, clues, and deductions. Also, you won't realize the 3 people in front of you left and new 3 people came there. A more serious example would be: Theft is entering to cafe, passing you with his/her hand on his/her hip(holding a gun)and directly going to the cashier. If you are aware you can realize even before his/her entrance that he/she is nervous and hand on hip etc.

Remember this scene? Sherlock was drinking whiskey while he was in an emotional state. Even though he was aware of everything around him, he couldn't leave it to chance. He knew who was sitting behind him and why they were there, what is his/her job, etc. Most likely when he entered there he was already deducing people before sitting. Now, how can we get better at this? First of all, when you enter somewhere don't hold on to your phone. After entering start observing. You have to start with the most important ones. You have to decide what to observe but here is a list for you:

-Entrance and exit. -People. -Dangers. (Anything that can point to danger.) -Cars and motorcycles. -People leaving and coming. -Security cameras. Choose what is more important for your specific scenario and work on it. Even before going there, you can decide what to look for. Then start working and being aware. In the next post, I want to talk about O.O.D.A Loop but for this post I will mention the first two. Observe and Orient. What you are doing when you are being aware of your surroundings is that you are using Observation and Orientation. You are observing what is around you and making meaning out of it. Let's say you see 2 people sitting 2 tables away from you. They both are nervous and looking to exit and cashier all the time. That is the observation part. Now orientation, you are trying to make meaning. Are they up to something dangerous or just late for work and waiting for someone to bring their order? That is where context comes in. You are using observations and context and then have a meaning. If you were aware enough, you would see if they ordered something or not and you would eliminate the possibility that they are waiting for an order, etc. I hope I can make things clear enough because that is one of the most important parts of your deduction journey. If you have any questions, send me. If you have any advice, send me. For now, that's all. See you later.

#deduction #deductive reasoning #sherlock holmes #bbc sherlock #sherlock #sherlockbbc #art #observer #deductionist #criminal profiling #profiling #awareness #mindfulness #situational awareness

[addleeigh]

!! helloo !! my name is lee. i am 17 years old ! pronouns she/they. bisexual and genderfluid, also taken by my lovely boyfriend 🫶

my discord is : lee<3#0420

fun facts !!! :

i am a stoner / nic enjoyer you have now been warned

i have adhd and am on the autism spectrum

my interests change frequently !! but i enjoy lots of random things

i collect cards !

theres almost a 2 foot height difference between me and my boyfriend

im hard of hearing

im a senior in high school and plan to attend college to work in the criminal profiling or human studies field !! im very interested in psychological questions and the way the human mind works, and that may be what a lot of my tweets are about

i am constantly researching about drug usage due to being around drug users to learn about the safety, so im always open to have conversations about safe drug use !! my knowledge is very minimal but i love to learn

my timezone is EST

#psychology #i speak into the void #hi hello #mentall illness #criminology #criminal profiling #drugs cw #drugs tw #weedsociety

[nando161mando]

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[sledgehammersurgery]

Suspect sketch of Timothy Nelson Jr

#suspect sketch #uncanny valley #true crime #cursed #timothy nelson jr #creepy #pure evil #30 years is not at all enough #scary pictures #cursed image #police sketch #horror #true horror stories #criminal profiling

[heighpubsseo]

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[zooterchet]

Classes of Felon (Based on Highschool Job)

General Store: You hand things, to yourself, keeping the secret, of how you performed the act of larceny; claim to be a criminal mastermind, despite having profiteered off a single public tragic act.  You want to be famous, privately.

Grocery Store: You move through a linear pathway that doesn’t follow a straight line, placing things into reference of a discussion, a movie character combined with an amusing anecdote, the prior the sexual fantasy with the female bagger, the latter your self-cuckolding with her future husband, as defeated.  You want to retire, and have a job, in art.

Convenience Store: You man a counter, all day, to give out free food items, from your store, on closing time.  They are all baked goods, and you don’t eat them, or share your food with anyone, indicating you’re a kingpin; however within service help, hence you snitch yourself out, to avoid a “pig”, the kid that snitches, and ate the most of your food after hours (besides you, of course).  You want to be a police officer, but you got a job at a convenience store; without the convenience store job, you wouldn’t want to become a police officer.

Eatery Restaurant: You are a waitress, the female class of criminal, and if male, gay.  You attract others around you, for a disgusting habit in your purloined literature of arts, actually a women’s female sibilance, or if a male, a clown boss, someone that scouts out others for the other classes of felon to see who’s the “narc”, the snitch that was a manager.  You want to be deposed, from a foreign office, under tragic circumstances, your own sexual desire.

Delivery Restaurant: A cook, chef, or delivery driver, is always running numbers, for themselves, switching around the orders of authority on a simple rubric common with your class of cuisine in town, to support a restaurant with a “pining poll”, a police officer resident suburban cop.  Your entire job, is to see who has too much money, by having an irregular bank pattern.  You want to be filthy stinking rich, despite having an inner circle to eat with, constantly.

Bank: You’re a career criminal.  Everything you do, is tacitly illegal, and nobody seems to notice, since you have iron bowels, and federal fraud insurance protection, and a lung full of air you don’t want, and all the booze money you want to marry a woman that stopped drinking after having kids, based on unsound medical advice.  You enforce the medical system, and can turn any doctor, into a patch doctor, for a mob hit, for claiming something annoys you, because there’s a financial benefit, to offer a doctor.

#criminal profiling

[thecapitolradar]

Where was the school counselor? School nurse? School principal? Parents of fellow students? Social workers? Guardians ad litem?

We know where the police were.

What kind of hick savages let an at-risk kid harass girls and carry around a dead cat?

#uvalde #criminal profiling #shooter #town without pity

[soothsayersblog]

The Art and Science of Criminal Profiling

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[butterflypoppy]

New Fan Fic

#fanfic #hidden secrets #darkness #relationships #police #criminal profiling

[shushletmethink]

i think im quite obsessed with watching sherlock

like im trying to learn the art of deduction, which also would prove to be quite useful since i wanna become a criminal psychologist

#criminal psychology #sherlock #blogger #me bored #procrastination #criminal profiling #bbc sherlock

[techsol]

An Investigative Tool to Fight-off Increasing Crime!

By using Crime analytics software solutions provided by companies like Wynyard Group, investigators in the contemporary age can make connections between instances and pieces of evidence that might have been previously missed. Systematic criminal profiling analysis results can help law enforcement protect lives and reduce human pain and suffering. A lack of commitment and investment in the development of crime analysis tools and personnel should be viewed as a crime against society. Crime analysis will make a significant difference in the future world of policing.

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[yourmomxx]

i wanted to request something sweet with my man aaron hotchner. like r and him work at the bau but their relationship is a secret until r kiss him on accident because shes excited about something!!! i hope this make sense idk!

thanks bestie have a great week!

i’m loving me some babygirl aaron hotchner honestly, i hope you like how this turned out!!

The office lights were blinding.

Like clinically cold balls of headlights that were penetrating through your skull, buzzing at an abnormally high frequence consistently.

You groaned inwardly and pressed the balls of your hands deep into your eyesockets, anything to just make that stupid headache go away so you could continue filing your reports that laid unedited on your desk.

You tapped the head of your pen vigorously against the desk top to jog a flow of words for you to write down.

With your hand supporting your head, you didn't notice a figure approaching you out of the corner of your eye.

"Hey." The tone of Aaron Hotchner's voice was soft and warm, but you still couldn't help but jump at the unexpected presence so near next to you.

You sighed when you noticed it was him, and leaned your head on your hand again. "Hey."

Aaron threw a look on you, then your files, and then your hunched figure again.

His gaze softened.

"Why don't you go home?" He suggested. You opened your mouth to openly protest, but Aaron cut you off before you even started talking.

"You need the rest," He made it clear to you, "and I'm sure Jack would love if you read him a story before bedtime."

You threw him a look. "You can't just lure me home using your son. That's not fair game."

The corners of Aaron's mouth twitched and he tilted his head.

You sighed. "Even if I wanted to go home," You said, "This paperwork won't finish itself."

Aaron moved closer to you and threw a glance over your shoulder, one hand supporting his weight on your desk as he leaned over your body.

"Let me do it," He offered.

You turned to look at him. "I can't ask that of you."

Aaron straightened up. "You're not asking, I'm offering."

Carefully, he pulled your pen out of your hand and put it back into its designated holder with multiple other ones that probably weren't even functioning anymore.

"Now," He drew out slowly, while his fingers were circling under the collar of your jacket hung over your chair, and he held it out to you, "Go home."

You threw him a doubting look. Aaron raised an eyebrow.

"I can make this an order if I want to."

You raised your hands, defeated.

"Alright, alright."

Slowly, you rolled your chair back and stood up, and accepted happily when Aaron helped you slip into the warm jacket. His hands kept steadying you at your shoulders. You closed your eyes and let your muscles relax against him for the blink of a second.

"Thank you," You muttered to him.

Aaron nodded. "Of course."

Your bag was already packed, it was a plus, as you lifted it off the floor.

"Maybe you can read Jack the book you brought him the last time," Aaron suggested. "He hasn't put it down since I showed him."

At his words, your face cracked into a huge, beaming smile.

"He actually liked it?" You hushed. Aaron nodded, smiling.

"That was my favorite book as a child, I'm so glad!"

You strode forward and pulled him closer to you in a short, but emotion-pouring kiss.

When you leaned away, Aaron smiled.

"Get home safe," He said. "Text me."

You dug out your headphones out of your bag and smiled at him.

"Always."

Then, not without throwing your lover a last kiss in your steps, you made your way out of the glass gates and left the building.

Only when the closed elevator doors put you out of his line of sight, Aaron allowed himself to finally pull out your chair and sit down.

He cracked open one of the brown files and started writing.

Only a few tables away, Emily Prentiss, David Rossi, Derek Morgan and Spencer Reid were frozen in the same position they had been in just one minute ago.

Emily opened her mouth, closed it, and opened it again.

Derek turned to Rossi. "Should we-?"

"No." The elder Agent cut him off.

Emily gestured wildly with her hands. "But they just-"

"I know, but - let's just not."

Spencer tilted his head.

Emily gave in.

They all just watched as their Unit Chief sat on your desk and filled out files that weren't his, as if it was the most normal thing on earth.

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