Murder Call

The advancement of the computer age has introduced many new terms into our everyday vocabulary, one of these words, “hacker,” has to do with deviance and crime. Popular culture defines hackers as those who, through use of exceptional computer skills, are able to break into the computers owned by banks and government agencies. They snoop through information that does not belong to them, they steal expensive software, and they transfer funds from bank account to bank account. Criminologists have described hackers in the following terms: “electronic trespassers” or “electronic vandals.” Hackers are recognized as “computer criminal.” They draw a clear distinction between the joyriding hacker and the trusted white collar employee who turns bad. Thus, we are seemingly left with a definition that has two extremes. The modern day bank robber at one end, the trespassing teenager at the other. Either activity (and any which falls in between) could be classified as “hacking.” Unfo...

While some aspects of police work have been studied in depth — for example, police decision making in connection with an arrest — very little is known about the way in which detectives work toward identifying suspects in serial murder investigations. In order for the classification of serial murderers to be more than educated guess work, conclusions must be based on empirical research of consistencies in criminal behavior, and the relationship of those actions to aspects of an offender that are available to the police in an investigation. There can be certain thematic behaviors in any murder committed by a sample of serial murderers that are more typical than behaviors in similar murders; therefore there will be consistency across the three offense series for the offender samples.  Despite of the fact that the descriptive label is applied, profiling as an investigative tool today represents a less than educated attempt to provide law enforcement agencies with detailed ...

To have a full insight on the criminal profiling, let’s take a look at a criminal intelligence system which  is a vital resource for crime control. It enhances the effectiveness of an agency’s component law enforcement arms thus, contributes to a more productive exchange of information among law enforcement organizations. Strategic intelligence analysis serves a broad spectrum of crime control needs both within and without the agency; internally in the areas of planning, the allocation of resources, and the development of sound law-enforcement strategies; and externally in responding to requests for crime trend analysis. A vital criminal intelligence system involves compiling data that is used primarily to react to immediate investigative needs. Bear in mind that lack of a fully developed strategic and tactical intelligence capability seriously hinders the ability of a law enforcement agency to accurately measure and prevent organized, serious crime within its jurisdicti...