Revision, Psychology, offender profiling, kocsis

Aim: to investigate the hypothesis that investigative experience gives individuals the ability to construct accurate psychological profiles. In other wors, will experience detectives produce better profiles than other groups?

Method: An experiment with independant measures. The independnant variable was accupation of participant
Participants: six different groups of participant including 31 senior detectives, 12 experianced homicide detectives, 19 trainee detectioves, 50 police recruits, 50 police students and 31 undergraduacte students majoring in chemistry.

Procedure: All participants were given a case description of an actual solved murder. This included details about the crime scene, sketches, phographs, forensic informarion and information about the victim. Once participants had read the material they were asked to complete a 45-item multiple choice checklost, which asked them to assess the offenders physical characterists, cognitive processes, offence behavious and social history and habititans. These participants were also asked to sign a declreeration conferming they had no prior knowladeg of the case

Results: The results are suprising. The most accurate profiles were produced byt the chemisty students, followed by the police recruits and then the experienced senious detectives, this would offer little evidence to suggest that investigative experience is thequintessentail skill for effective psychologyical profiling. Further, as both the chemisty students and the police recruits were studying athigher education level, the4re is the suggestion that the educational level of these gripus may have soem bearing on the results and further research into this variable is clearly required.

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[holyjesus]

Seems like that would more likely suggest that the temporal proximity to education is a better indication for successful identification of a suspect than experience is. Do senior detectives never go to school?

[HannurrSpannurr]

I don't know... i was just reading straight from a book.

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[liltrashed91]

that mental spazzy effect hurts my eyes..... i'm going to fail on wednesday

[HannurrSpannurr]

I shall fail too. I don't know any of the evaluation points and can't remember who did what :(

lets fail together XD

[HannurrSpannurr]

and also... what mental spazzy effect?

[tomrw54]

omg who is making you study Kocsis!? Pretty poor research. Canter and Alison are better examples in this field.

[krisclem]

Thanks I was looking for a study to use for my essay lol good acting hahaha

[holyjesus]

Not tryin' to blame ya, just discussing the material. :-)

[Rosetteismyname]

I didn't learn about this stuff in high school hannah....they don't teach psychology and sociology in public schools in the states, maybe there are a few out there...but not where I went...

[liltrashed91]

oh wow it stopped must have been my computer having a r8 tard at me