Overview
Admissibility in Court
I want you to discuss a selected topic on criminal profiling. Support your review of this topic by providing examples and using the literature to support your presentation. Your opinion does not determine your grade. Your grade is determined by how well you support your argument utilizing the materials discussed in this course and the research material you locate. What I do not want is a regurgitation of the course materials. Expand on the materials, do not repeat them. Document your facts utilizing standard APA style. The paper is to be in APA format and the body of the paper is to be between 10 and 12 pages. The body of the paper does not include the title page, table of contents, appendix or references. Your paper should be high quality, free of spelling and grammatical errors, and of original work. Plagiarism will be dealt with harshly.
You are to title your paper by your last name. For example, my paper would be called "hunziker.doc" with ".doc" being the MS Word file extension.
You are to submit your paper by uploading it to your student folder in the course site prior to the due date.
References
Bosco, D., Zappalà, A., & Santtila, P. (2010). The admissibility of offender profiling in courtroom: A review of legal issues and court opinions. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 33(3), 184-191. doi:10.1016/j.ijlp.2010.03.009
George, J. (2008). Offender profiling and expert testimony: scientifically valid or glorified results? Vanderbilt Law Review, 61(1), 221-260.
Kocsis, R.N. & Palermo, G.B. (2016). Criminal profiling as expert witness evidence: The implications of the profiler validity research. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 49.
Petherick, W. (2006). Serial crime: Theoretical and practical issues in behavioral profiling. Elsevier. Chapter 5