like rapist?
2007-10-27 14:58:49 · 18 answers · asked by messy_bill 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
Training and exposure to that particular type of person, plus the experience of dealing with their victims.
2007-10-27 15:18:16 · answer #1 · answered by CGIV76 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
They study them. Particularly the FBI in Quantico Va. They compare all these cases and create a profile. It gives them a baseline to start looking for a suspect.
Even the FBI will say it's not perfect.
The worst seem to be school shooters. They are all over the place. Some are rich, some poor. Some were abused, some were not. A lot got the guns from home, quite a few didn't. Some make clear threats in advance, some don't.
Here is a strange fact. Many of the most famous serial killers had read, or at least had a copy of the book, Catcher in the Rye.
2007-10-27 15:10:51 · answer #2 · answered by Colt 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
all crimes and criminals, Rapists Murderers and the such like, kind of follow a set pattern they use the same techniques the same kind of behavioural patterns etc the crime may not be exactly the same but the make up of it will be. And as such Criminal Physcologists have built up a timetable of events from the planning of the crime to the selection of the victim to actually carrying it out and then the Criminals behaviour afterwards and each and every one roughly follows these set rules and that is how they understand the mindset of a criminal
2007-10-27 15:20:05 · answer #3 · answered by Mark H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not always so complicated. The role of the police is to gather evidence, identify a suspect from that evidence, arrest a suspect and build a case using whatever evidence is available legally. It's not always necessary to 'understand' how a suspects mind works, very few cases are solved like 'cracker'.
2007-10-31 09:19:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Difficult question, generally speaking a good police officer puts themselves in a criminals shoes (head) so to speak, which of course does make them particularly vulnerable to picking up criminal tendencies themselves.
2007-10-27 15:10:55 · answer #5 · answered by Alan D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ive no idea, but some of the police doctors havent a clue on some people and how they are feeling! i know from experience. i felt like doing something and i got arrested for my own safety and the doctor said i was totally fine and the police had to let me go, then i went straight from the police station back to where i was and what i was going to do in the first place!!!
2007-10-27 20:27:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They do not understand, as personality has nothing to do with crime and is irrelevant. With a rapist or murderer, he is more than likely to have raped or killed someone that he knows, so there will not be any long drawn out investigation.
2007-10-27 21:36:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Law Enforcement officials go to school and learn about people and how to look for things in certain individuals.
Understanding a rapist is not hard to figure it out onoly hard to figure when he turned psychotic or became a Sociapath.
2007-10-27 15:01:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
forensic psychology deals with this and will pass on the information to the police forces, also the experience of the officers them self's
2007-10-27 19:27:29 · answer #9 · answered by denco26 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you take a lot of sociology and psychology courses 100,200, 300, 400 and 500 levels,within criminal justice studies.
2007-10-27 15:05:12 · answer #10 · answered by ahsoasho2u2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its like science. You have certain formulas and certain results. When you track the crimes, and how they are committed, certain patterns emerge. In a nut shell thats how you can follow certain personalities.
2007-10-27 17:06:43 · answer #11 · answered by gray1800 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋