Cja 364 Week 2 Individual Assignments

Justyce Oliphant 5, December 2012 Criminal Justice Term Paper Final Draft Solving Crime has always intrigued me. How do they do it How do they catch the bad guys Who are our real life superheroes Detectives, such as the fictional character Sherlock Holmes, and television shows such as Criminal Minds sparked my interest in learning about crime in general, but also specifically I wanted to learn more about what it was that the agents on criminal minds did. I wanted to know more about criminal profiling. What is it profiling Who uses it And is it even effective These questions are the main reason I got interested in taking college courses about criminal justice. In the rest of this essay I will state what it is that I have found out in the last few weeks of studying profiling. A criminal profiler usually will have a background of psychology, criminology and also has studied the criminal justice system as a whole. Additional classes that help develop a profilers abilitiesmight include sociology, computer science, law enforcement, and forensic science. Keeping up with what is going on in your community and being well read on criminal profiling and psychology also can help