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- Title
Offender Profiling and Expert Testimony: Scientifically Valid or Glorified Results?
- Authors
George, James Aaron
- Abstract
The article discusses the history, aims, hypotheses and application of the offender profiling to criminal investigations and prosecutions. It examines the historical and present conditions of the judicial standards for the admittance of expert testimonial. The article also presents a vital appraisal of the hypothesis and systems of methods of the offender profiling and debates that it is not suited for the expert testimony. Moreover, the article analyzes the courts' treatment towards offender profiling testimony and undertakes to justify decisions to accept the testimony regardless of its undependability. Part of this article also offers solutions to the problems encountered on offender profiling.
- Subjects
PREDICTION of criminal behavior; LEGAL evidence; CRIMINAL psychology; ADMISSIBLE evidence; CRIMINAL profilers; CRIMINAL justice system; LAW enforcement; CRIMINAL investigation; INVESTIGATIONS; FORENSIC sciences
- Publication
Vanderbilt Law Review, 2008, Vol 61, Issue 1, p221
- ISSN
0042-2533
- Publication type
Article